LED Canopy Ceiling With Generative Content Designed To Attract Premium NYC Tenants December 17, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is the LED ceiling of 250 West 57th Street, up near the south end of Central Park in New York. The 80 foot long by 8 foot wide art installation has been running for the last couple of years, but I just heard about it last week, and found time Friday morning to walk …
Samsung’s microLED The Wall Finds Way Into NYC Boardroom December 16, 2019 by Dave Haynes Samsung’s The Wall has been showing up at trade shows for a couple of years now, and while there’s been talk of high net worth individuals and business customers buying and installing the big microLED video walls, I’d not seen one in the wild. Until last week. Samsung did a tech media tour last week …
Who Needs Departures And Track Assignments When You Can Get IP Addresses? December 11, 2019 by Dave Haynes UPDATE – The service provider says this screen was intentional and the board was being tested, with a launch day set for Dec. 18. (see comments below) This is bad on an epic level – a big direct view LED in the main rail station in Rotterdam. The big screen (photo provided by a …
Giant LED Facade Frames Entry To New Louis Vuitton Airport Store December 9, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is a digital facade that attracts and greets shoppers at a new Louis Vuitton store in a terminal at De Gaulle Airport in Paris. The direct view LED cabinets frame a large entryway and sit below the store header and logo. The shop opened in November at Terminal 2AC. I couldn’t embed a video, …
UK Dep’t Store Puts Its Window Digital On Sliders December 9, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is one of those “Hmmm …” things – a kind of interesting mash-up of direct view LED panels on motorized tracks, shifting in a UK shop window. It is in Manchester, in the window of a Marks and Spencer department store (which, for people in the US or Canada, is a bit like a …
Duty Free At Istanbul’s New Airport Features Some 1,000 Sq. Meters Of LED Display December 3, 2019 by Dave Haynes Istanbul’s new airport – which when fully built out is expected to be the world’s busiest – already has the biggest duty free store, fronted by a giant LED media facade. The Unifree Duty Free zone in the airport is the size of nine soccer fields, with 53,000 square meters of perfumes, watches, scarves, chocolates …
Comcast Refreshes Tech And Content For Its Amazing Philly HQ Lobby Wall November 29, 2019 by Dave Haynes Direct view LED is now shaping design decisions for commercial property owners and architects who want to deliver something special in the main lobby of a building. You’re seeing more and more stories about buildings that have made an entire feature wall digital and dynamic, as a way to create visual excitement and both attract …
Giant LED Flame Display Highlights Iconic Welcome Sign At New Hard Rock Resort November 25, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is the signature display outside the new Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sacramento at Fire Mountain, kinda east and a bit north of San Francisco. The resort is a partnership between the Enterprise Rancheria Tribe and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and sits on 900 acres. The hotel and casino was entirely built in …
Experience Center Uses Transparent Film LED As Room Divider Panels November 22, 2019 by Dave Haynes Here’s a case where transparent LED doesn’t look so bad from the rear – the big differences being the tech used and the way these glass room dividers are set in place and used. This is a project the workplace design firm Gensler did for HP Enterprise, at its headquarters customer experience center in Palo …
Updated 1,500-Foot Fremont Street LED Canopy Now Live In Las Vegas November 21, 2019 by Dave Haynes Danville, Ill.-based LED manufacturer Watchfire Signs says work is now complete on what is touted as the world’s largest single video screen, a renovated Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas. Watchfire won the $30 million deal last year and says the project was delivered on budget and ahead of a schedule that had schemed in a “grand …
