Using LEDs in dimensional letters

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) continue to gain popularity throughout the lighting industry, with different types available for different applications, including everything from sign letters and traffic lights to electronic indicators and Christmas lights.

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Remaking Mark’s Work Wearhouse

Mark’s, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian Tire, is renovating and redesigning its clothing stores across Canada. Formerly known as Mark’s Work Wearhouse, the retail chain is incorporating digital signage into its new shopping environments in multiple forms, including both passive and interactive displays.

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Integration with security and safety systems

Digital signage is a rapidly growing medium, but securing and managing dynamic displays under an organization-wide information technology (IT) network still often comes across as a difficult challenge for many companies. This is a pity, as the technology behind digital signage is well-positioned to make management easier.

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Producing content for multiple platforms

The digital signage industry has a proven history of enabling the delivery of real-time content to screens of different types and sizes. Now, the content creation workflow concepts that have been developed and the best practices learned over the years are being incorporated into management tools for other applications.

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How strategy can lead to success

While digital signage has become a well-established medium for communications today, there still seem to be major stumbling blocks as it is adopted by new users. “I know we need to use digital signage,” says the typical executive at a company looking into the technology for the first time, “but I don’t know why!”

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Rezoning Pearson airport

At the end of January 2012, Toronto Pearson International Airport went ‘zonal,’ implementing a new, uniform alphanumeric system for naming all flight gate lounges throughout Terminals 1 and 3 (T1 and T3). The renumbering project also entailed the need to retrofit and replace corresponding signs facing airline passengers in both terminals.

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Showtime for TIFF Bell Lightbox

It took almost 40 years to establish a dedicated venue in Toronto for world-class cinema. What began in 1976 as the Festival of Festivals and was later renamed the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) finally found a permanent home in late 2010 when TIFF Bell Lightbox opened at the corner of King and John Streets.

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Adding logos to ice sculptures

For several years running, La Bodega Tapas Bar and Grill in Regina has commissioned an annual ‘ice bar’ to be sculpted on its outdoor patio. This winter tradition is part of an effort to raise money for Regina Transition House, a local emergency shelter that helps women and children affected by violence.

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