essential signage for hanover

26th Jul 2010 (15:55:03) by Peter

Beaver Solutions recently provided a Resident Information System for national retirement housing provider Hanover, at two of the organisation’s newest retirement housing estates in Scunthorpe and South Shields. Designed deliver essential up-to-date news and information, the digital displays are an integrated part of the retirement homes and an important part of daily life for the residents.

The screens are kept up-to-date by the staff as well as via live news feeds and the residents rely on them as an essential source of information, which helps better inform their daily decisions.

Essential Information

Many of the residents do not own, or choose not to use, a computer – meaning that information doesn’t always reach them through traditional channels. Via the screens, residents are now able to receive up-to-date information as they move through the building and, rather than a cluttered message board, digital screens provide a simple and tidy solution.

The screens are located in busy areas, such as the reception lobby and restaurant, ensuring that residents have easy access to timely information throughout the day. Residents can read live news feeds from the BBC, local weather announcements, information about upcoming events, bus timetables and other custom content from the Hanover staff.

Easy to Use

For the housing staff, the system is easy to maintain and update with new content. Using the latest release of Scala5 software, housing staff are also able to amend or add their own content whenever needed, via a simple web interface.

“The screens are essential for many of the residents and are a valuable source of information. With the Scala system, it’s easy for Hanover staff to update the screens with relevant information, adding to the quality of daily life of the residents. It’s a great addition to our housing and is working very well.” - Tom Brown, Head of Operations Extra Care North, Hanover Housing

For more details about information signage and audio visual solutions from Beaver Group, please call +44 845 355 2555.

quality from street to site

21st Jun 2010 (11:13:29) by Robin

Today, St Andrew Street in Hertford launches their new website - designed and developed by Beaver Design!

Take a look: www.standrewstreet.com

For the last few months, Beaver Design has been working very closely with the businesses of St Andrew Street to create a new website for the whole street. The result is a site which features news, lots of pictures and videos - all with the aim of engaging with customers and showcasing the range of quality independent shops on the street.

All the designs, logos and layouts on the site were created in-house by Beaver Design. In addition, Beaver Design provided some photography services for the street, as well as videos provided by Ware-based Media 14

As well as designing and managing the site, Beaver Design is also working closely withe street to improve their presence on social networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter. With so many people using these services, St Andrew Street identified a need to be a part of it and engage online.

"By incorporating state-of-the-art features like video content and rolling news, we know that this website will be bookmarked and revisited regularly by many people. We are delighted with the result!" - Rod Lewis, Hertfordshire Graphics, St Andrew Street

To launch the site, the street are organising an event for Saturday 26th June. Vouchers are available online, so grab yourself a bargain!

one design agency for cinema city

6th Apr 2010 (10:56:27) by Dave

Beaver Solutions (part of the Beaver Group) has recently finished a project for Cinema City International, delivering a complete and single-sourced digital menu board and print design service. Beaver Solutions is uniquely placed to provide quality digital menu board content development and traditional print designs, from one agency.

With this exciting project we are providing content to six countries throughout Europe and Israel, improving the promotion of Cinema City’s concessions, increasing sales and saving money on wastage. The digital and print menus work in harmony with a coherent design throughout, promotions are quicker and prices can be changed whenever needed.

UNIFIED DESIGN, FROM ONE AGENCY

Beaver have over 30 years experience in print design and 15 years developing digital signage content. Cinema City also benefitted from the specific menu board expertise of sister company, Signature Digital Menus.

Beaver shot specific high definition video content for use on the digital menu boards, and developed a stylish and elegant design which communicates the concessions available in each of the cinemas located in Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, in the local languages. Where changes are required, these can be implemented throughout their signage (both print and digital). The solution was quick and dynamic, due in no small part to the fact that the print and digital teams work from the same offices.

"The content and video production by Beaver Solutions is excellent. We’ve had a lot of good feedback from our customers and we’re noticing a significant uplift in sales. The design work from Beaver Solutions has really made a difference.”

– Alon Zohar, Food and Beverages Director, Cinema City International NV

THE FUTURE

Ongoing price changes and additional items are also being managed by Beaver Solutions, continuing to deliver increased sales and reduced costs.

Cinema City International is the largest operator of multiplex cinemas in Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Israel, with more than 70 multiplex cinemas in six countries. In the next 6-12 months, there are plans to roll out the new designs to additional countries, including Israel.

Delivering quality design services, Beaver Solutions are pretty pumped to be providing Cinema City International with unified digital signage and print content throughout their cinemas.

For more information about the content design for digital signage and print from Beaver Solutions, please call +44 845 355 2555.

total media and the digital signage show

28th Sep 2009 (16:31:09) by Andy

This week there is both the Self-Service Expo/Digital Signage Show at Olympia, London and Total Media at IFEMA, Madrid. Holding a conference on digital signage solutions in hospitality at Total Media will be Peter Critchley, Managing Director; and presenting a seminar on end-to-end project management for Showcase Cinemas at the Digital Signage Show will be Barry Thurston, Group Chairman.

You will find Beaver Group at the Self-Service Expo/Digital Signage Show education programme at 2:30pm on Wednesday 30th September.

Or if you are going to Total Media, you can attend the conference and open discussion in Auditorium 1 at 4:00pm on Thursday 1st October.

Discover more

At both of these sessions you’ll have the opportunity to see an in-depth look at the successful project management of a large scale, award-winning digital signage solution for Showcase Cinemas. As well as find out more about the design and technical challenges needed to be overcome, in order to deliver the high-end and integrated installation. There is the opportunity for a first-hand look at the content creation techniques and of course a chance to ask any questions.

We look forward to seeing you there!

beavers in july

3rd Aug 2009 (12:17:01) by Andy

This July, Beaver Design has been working on a number of client’s projects, as well as some internal improvements.

We’ve delivered the website for the newly formed Tudor Facilities Management, who we also provided with branding and stationery last month.

For the hair foil company Foila, we’re in the process of finalising their new site (which is already looking very good), but you can take a sneak peak at www.foila.com.

Beaver Design has also provided some design and print for the telecommunications company Ericsson, with some DVD covers, inlays and posters for their 2012 Strategy.

Watch this space...

Our design team and web developers have been designing a number of new things for the Beaver Group.

Firstly, the main Beaver Group website is being given a whole redevelopment (Beaver Design is a part of Beaver Group).

We’ve also got an exciting project coming up which is going to hopefully generate a lot of interest and buzz. It’s not only going to be a useful tool, but it should be a nice bit of fun.

So watch this space (and the space around our office...)!