2,580 Square Feet of Absen LED Powers Australia’s Expo 2025 Pavilion July 16, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger In Japanese Osaka, 150 countries are currently showing their vision of “Designing Future Society for Our Lives”. One of the pavilions that’s being praised for its immersive design is Australia’s. Titled “Chasing the Sun,” the pavilion incorporates more than 2,580 square feet of LED displays from Chinese manufacturer Absen. Four types of LED products are …
Refik Anadol Turns Lionel Messi’s Iconic Goal into AI-Powered Art July 14, 2025 by invidis Renowned digital artist Refik Anadol continues to push creative boundaries at the intersection of technology and art. Best known for his shape-shifting, AI-generated art work, he’s now doing a unique collaboration with soccer icon Lionel Messi. Anadol has transformed one of Messi’s most cherished memories – his legendary goal on May 27, 2009 – into …
280-Meter-High Building Projection Mapped for Singapore’s 60-Year Celebration July 7, 2025 by invidis UOB, one of Asia’s leading banks, is celebrating its 90th anniversary together with Singapore’s 60th year of independence. To mark the occasion, the bank is transforming its UOB Plaza 1 headquarters into a 280-meter-high projection surface. Visitors can catch three different projection mapping shows lighting up the building now through August 9. To mark its …
Putting a Spin on Forced Perspective – Literally June 27, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Beyond massive retail rollouts involving thousands of stores, there are always those fun – and usually expensive – flagship store projects that must be a dream gig for digital signage integrators. One such *fun* (and likely insanely costly) project was carried out by First Impression for the House of Rituals in Amsterdam, the flagship store …
Orlando Airport’s Aging Video Walls Face a Digital Upgrade June 17, 2025 by Florian Rotberg Orlando | Orlando International Airport (MCO) has long been a pioneer in digital signage, earning its reputation as the digital flagship of U.S. airports. Now, as the first generation of video wall displays approaches the end of its lifespan, upgrades are inevitable. Large LCD video walls, once dominant, have gradually fallen out of favor, replaced …
Digital Signage & 85p Hotdogs – Two Things Ikea’s London Store Does Right June 2, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Much has been said about how screen-heavy Ikea’s new City Store on Oxford Street is – but even so, I was surprised by the sheer variety of digital signage formats used throughout the space. This isn’t just a case of throwing screens on walls; it’s a thoughtful, content-first approach. From the moment you step inside …
Scala Gets Beyond Just Populating Menu Displays With New Quintet QSR Automation Solution May 20, 2025 by Super User It seems obvious, but I remain surprised how many CMS software companies continue down the path of developing and marketing general solutions, when in most cases they should really be trying to zero in on solution and sector, and go deep with it. If your solution meets every or most needs, it’s probably broad but …
Smallish LED Tunnel Creates Big Visuals At New Thai Experiential Space May 19, 2025 by Super User This is an experiential space that recently opened in Bangkok, Thailand – especially interesting because it uses a relatively small amount of LED display to create a set of huge visual experiences. It’s a an LED tunnel lined floor to curved ceiling with display, and while kinda sorta small physically when compared to big LED …
UK Bridge’s Supports Lit Up, Projection-Mapped, To Mark VE Day May 9, 2025 by Super User This is great – a projection-mapping job last night marking the 80th anniversary of the end of hostilities in Europe, back in 1945. The UK specialist firm Motion Mapping used two of the concrete supports of the Orwell Bridge in Suffolk, northeast of London, as the canvas for projection. This was done from a restaurant …
FAFO: Fired Disney World Manager Gets Three Years Jail For Monkeying With Park Menu Boards May 9, 2025 by Super User In a clear example of F*** Around and Find Out, a former Walt Disney World employee who responded to his firing by using his unrevoked system access to monkey with and disable the park’s digital menus has been handed a three-year prison sentence and ordered to pay almost $700,000 USD in restitution. While that, at …
