NEW YORK CITY — The Digital Signage Group has announced the winners of the fourth annual DIGI Awards. The winners were announced last week at the Digital Signage Show in New York. Winners in 17 categories, ranging from Corporate Application to a special judges' award for Innovation in Digital Signage Sourcing, are chosen based on entries, the number of which exceeded 100 for the first time this year.
"The creativity and diversity in the use of digital visual communication continues to grow as evidenced by the fantastic work of our latest winners," said Jill Miller, president of The Digital Signage Group.
2008 distinguished DIGI Awards recipients are:
Retail Application, Local Campaign — Digital Display & Communications for Future Shop
Retail Application, National Campaign — Reactrix Systems for Sears Wishbook
Interactive Application, Wayfinding — Openeye Global for the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Corporate Application, Excellence in Creativity — Digital Display Group, Univ of New Mexico, Anderson School of Business
Corporate Application, Excellence in Technology — STRATACACHE for AT&T Briefing Center
Entertainment, Excellence in Creativity — C-Nario for Casino Da Madiera
Entertainment, Excellence in Technology — Scala for UBC TV/Ullevaal Stadium
Public Venue Application, Excellence in Creativity — MODERNISTIC for Best Buy
Public Venue Application, Excellence in Technology — Omnivex /Jacob Hattelamd Visions, AS for Fjord 1 Bogn Billag
Judges Award for Innovation in Sourcing Digital Signage — Digital Display & Communications for Rogers Telecommunications Nexgen Store
Product, Measurement/Analytics — Artisan Complete for Ncapsule
Product, Software — Admira Digital Signage Software
Product, Flat Panel Displays — TRED Systems, EMD2 Hybrid Sign
Product, Screen Material — Acceleroptics, XLV-100 Digital Display
Product, Media Player — NEC, MPD-SBC-16
Product, Connectivity — Minicom Advanced Systems, DS Vision 3000
Best Use of Content — Digital Display & Communications for Holt Renfrew
Judges for the 2008.5 DIGI Awards were: Alan Brawn, principal, Brawn Consulting; Lyle Bunn, principal, Lyle Bunn Consulting; David Keene, executive editor of Digital Signage Magazine and DIGI Awards chairman.
The writer is editor of Digital Signage Today.
