Here’s A Giant Whirly-Twirly LED Sign In A Chinese Public Park November 16, 2017 by Super User This is a set of rotating screens on pylons in a public park/square in Shandong, China, which is between Beijing and Shanghai. The watermark on the video clearly shows it is a Unilumin LED product. It’s interesting. There’s a bit of a debate going on through a Linkedin post about it, suggesting this is pointless …
That Giant Coca-Cola Robotic LED Board in NYC (Surprise!) Has Issues November 15, 2017 by Super User Damn near anyone who has done digital signage or digital OOH ops work will have seen Coca-Cola’s impressive, ambitious 3D robotic LED board in New York’s Times Square and thought, “Oh, that’s going to be an uptime nightmare.” Anything with that many moving parts, out in the elements, is going to need a lot of …
Chicago Mall Gets Stunning Makeover With Huge LED Canopy November 15, 2017 by Super User This is great – a stunning use of fine pitch LED in the ceiling of a seven-level shopping and lifestyle center on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. The centerpiece of a makeover at 900 North Michigan Shops is a massive, 190-foot-long digital art installation spanning the ceiling of the nearly 30-year-old complex. Visible from all floors, and built in …
Leyard Wins Deal For Fine Pitch LED Backdrops For NBC’s Winter Olympics Broadcast Set November 14, 2017 by Super User Chinese KED manufacturer Leyard says it has won the deal with NBC’s Olympics broadcast team to provide multiple narrow pitch LED video walls for the broadcast sets of the upcoming Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. Leyard’s LED tech was used as the production backdrop at the summer games in Rio in 2016, so …
Watch How That Giant LED Selfie Head In Columbus, OH Came Together November 13, 2017 by Super User Here’s a really good explainer video about the giant selfie head that switched on as an interactive art piece a few weeks ago at the newly-renovated Greater Columbus Convention Center in Ohio. Design Communications Ltd., a fabricator of architectural specialties and custom experiential design elements, worked with artist Matthew Mohr to develop, engineer and fabricate …
Back At HQ After Week In LED Land November 13, 2017 by Super User Back at World HQ after a week in the heartlands of narrow pitch LED. As noted, the report will be out in January ahead of ISE. I’ll get back on regular news, though I don’t the impression all that much happened last week. I don’t know if it was a function of my not looking …
Taipei 101 Has An LED Display Cone Between Retail Floors November 6, 2017 by Super User The base levels of the tallest building in Taiwan – Taipei 101 – are a lot of retail and restaurants, and a lot of escalators. One of them had this multimedia set-up I can’t recalls seeing anywhere else – a fine-pitch LED display that runs up the span between the escalators. About halfway up the …
Heading To LED Land November 3, 2017 by Super User My butt gets sore just thinking about the long plane ride ahead this weekend – eventually taking me to Shenzhen, where most of the world’s consumer and business electronics are made. I’m going there for a few days to take a deep look at direct view LEDs – how they’re made, who makes them and …
Watch A Video Of The Digitally-Loaded Sephora Flagship In Barcelona November 3, 2017 by Super User Here’s a full video of the Sephora flagship that opened this summer in Barcelona. The entryway leading in to the escalator (or tube slide, if you feel like it) is all digital, and you can see some serious investment in creative. Very impressive.
Barco Bucks Industry Shift To LED Video Walls, Debuts No-Bezel LCD Video Wall System October 24, 2017 by Super User In an interesting twist, at a time when many LCD display manufacturers are investing big-time on fine pitch LED product to offset the expected decline in video wall sales, a company known far more for LED and projectors is launching a flashy new LCD wall product. Belgium-based Barco is launching Barco UniSee – a full …
