Enough With The Naked Eye 3D LED Stuff, Please! June 23, 2022 by Super User I have had polite arguments with sales people from a few Chinese LED manufacturers, through Linkedin comments, about their assertions that there is something technically special about their display hardware that enables outdoor screens to deliver Naked Eye 3D viewing experiences. They don’t. It’s all in the creative, and in many cases contingent on viewing …
1M Daily Commuters Take A Color Bath At Tokyo’s Hyper-Busy Shinjuku Station June 22, 2022 by Super User Just stumbled on this 2021 project from Montreal’s Moment Factory – a grand-scale synchronized multimedia experience in the east-west passageway of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station, the world’s busiest transit hub. Called The Colour Bath, the project combines video displays with audio and sync’d lighting for content that changes throughout the station’s 24/7 days. Transforming the tunnel into …
New Mesh LED On UK Campus Cycles Between Public Art And Messaging June 22, 2022 by Super User This is an interesting use of low-rez mesh LED on the corner of a structure – in this case a new building in a busy part of the campus of the University of Kentucky, In Lexington, KY. The 55×24 foot video wall – called the Cornerstone – was schemed in from the design stages and …
Fashion Brand Uses Immersive Creative, Floor-To-Ceiling LED Columns, For Barcelona Flagship June 16, 2022 by Super User The Barcelona creative technology shop Instronic does very nice work – the latest example a flagship store in the historic city center for the Portuguese fashion label Parfois. The shop has support columns fully clad in LED displays, and what looks like great experiential content amplified by reflective ceilings. The store design was done by …
Europe’s Largest LED Ceiling To Light Up Manchester’s Iconic Printworks Venue June 14, 2022 by Super User An old newspaper building block in Manchester, UK that was re-imagined as a multi-tenant entertainment venue is getting an upgrade with what will be the largest LED ceiling in Europe. The entire common space ceiling inside of Printworks will be 900 sq. meters of ceiling-suspended LED – a lightweight, fire-rated set of modules/cabinets provided by …
Screenfeed Goes No Code With New Connect Dynamic Messaging Toolset June 7, 2022 by Super User The Minneapolis-based subscription content company Screenfeed has launched a new content creation toolset that applies the concept of no-code software to producing customized, data-driven and fully automated messaging for digital signage networks. Called Screenfeed Connect, and the product of 30,000 developer hours over the last two years, the essence of the platform is making it …
How Did They Do A Virtual Queen In That Jubilee Carriage? June 6, 2022 by Super User There was lots of buzz this weekend coming out of the UK about the Platinum Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth, with many public celebrations but only limited glimpses of the monarch, who is understandably having mobility issues at 96 years. One of the workarounds for her inability to appear in an ornate carriage during a parade …
Tech Firm’s NYC Offices Use LED Video Walls To Energize Elevator Wait Lobbies May 27, 2022 by Super User Readers may have noticed how the odd post about a corporate project goes up … and then disappears – in pretty much every case because the vendor didn’t secure any or all of the permissions needed to use the client name and images in press material. I had one of those earlier in the week. …
Beauty Brand’s Uses Planetary Inspiration For Digital Around Terrific Madrid Flagship May 20, 2022 by Super User The Barcelona creative technology shop Instronic does super-nice work, and one of the things I particularly like about the company is the amount of detail it puts into explaining the creative thinking and outputs for its higher profile projects. The company has a deeply detailed, very visual page up online explaining what was done, how …
Generative Video Wall Art Reveals Paintings Brushstroke By Brushstroke May 20, 2022 by Super User Industry veteran Jim Nista sold his content and coding company Insteo to Almo a few years ago, and after spending some time working within the distribution company, he went back out on his own and is focused again on developing creative for digital signage projects. This is a really nice take on generative art for …
