Montreal’s Nummax Marketing LED Digital Posters For Shop Windows December 3, 2020 by Dave Haynes For the last two or three years I have seen countless vendors – mostly from China – marketing LED posters on floor stands as promotional posters for scenarios like retail. My initial concerns were that the things generally ran super hot and didn’t look terribly good unless you stepped well back. My lingering concern is …
LG Announces New Display Lab, Focused On MicroLED November 30, 2020 by Dave Haynes LG has announced some exec level organizational changes in South Korea that are more about things like major appliances, but the electronics giant also announced some future plans for display and innovation tech. “Under the CTO’s Materials & Devices Advanced Research Center will be the New Display Lab,” says the Nov. 26th press release, “which …
New Global HQ For IT Giant Leidos Is LED-Filled November 26, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is the gorgeous new world HQ of the IT solutions giant Leidos, in Reston, VA, outside of DC. The building was designed by Gensler and what caught my eye was the briefing center, which has a big fine pitch LED as its presentation canvas, and a series of fine pitch LED portrait displays just …
Experiential Flagship Store For Cannabis Producer Makes Heavy Use of LED As Design Elements November 25, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a cannabis store – albeit an experiential flagship store – in a monster shopping mall in Edmonton, Alberta – with fine pitch LED being used as the menu display, promo display and a big ambient ceiling. The 11,000 sq. ft. Aurora Cannabis store in West Edmonton Mall – at one time the biggest …
Giant Arched LED Video Wall Greets Workers, Visitors At SW China Office Tower November 24, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a big 12K resolution LED video wall in the street-level lobby of the tallest office tower in the southwestern Chinese city of Guiyang. The skyscraper officially opened its doors about a year ago, and the centerpiece is the 7.7 meter high by 27 meter wide video wall, which arches over the elevator lobby …
The D=SIGN Digital Signage Conference Agenda For Dec. 8-9 Now Built Out November 24, 2020 by Dave Haynes The agenda has been built out for D=SIGN, the two-day online conference being organized by AVIXA and the Digital Signage Federation for Dec. 8-9. It has a pile of my fellow DSF board members, as well as general members and other industry folks – all subject matter experts in one or numerous aspects of the …
Edmonton Office Tower Adds Prisms – LED Light Boxes Suspended Over Lobby November 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is the lobby of HSBC Place, an office and retail development in downtown Edmonton, Alberta. The Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) and Epic Investment Services engaged NYC-based experiential design firm ESI Design to come up with ideas to transform the public area to attract tenants and “fit in better with the new nearby, pedestrian-friendly …
Louisville Expo Center Adds Big LED Displays To Parking Lot Entry Canopy November 18, 2020 by Dave Haynes I am weirdly a fan of projects that don’t necessarily set the hearts of creative technologists racing, but just improve on some kind of communications. The entry gates at the Kentucky Exposition Center (KEC) in Louisville is a convention and events facility that handles everything from a bourbon festival (hic!) to the National Farm Machinery …
Definitely Not Your Average, Grubby ATM Lobby November 13, 2020 by Dave Haynes I’ve seen in my travels a few cases of banks dressing up their cash machine lobbies to make them a bit more inviting, but this flagship bank in Spain is next-level nice. These are images from the new “All in One” flagship CaixaBank branches put in at a pair of iconic buildings located in Barcelona …
SE China Mall Uses Huge LED “Waterfall” And Arena-Style LED Ribbon Displays For Shopper Experience November 13, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a shopping mall in Guangzhou, with a huge 2.5mm pixel pitch LED waterfall in the central atrium and LED ribbon displays that are reminiscent of pro sports venues. The content runs on the main screen and four levels of ribbons, and syncs. One of the most interesting aspects, to me, is the stage …
