LED Displays As Street Lamp Digital OOH Signs September 14, 2018 by Dave Haynes I get marketing emails all day, every day, from Chinese LED manufacturers showing me their latest pots and pans – and 99% of them look pretty much the same. I thought this was different and kind of interesting, in terms of application for the digital OOH market. It’s a direct view LED sign, shaped like …
Moving LED Ball Cloud Fills Canopy At Guangzhou Airport DOOH Media Installation September 13, 2018 by Dave Haynes The new terminal 2 at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport in China (Guanzhou is in the same mega-city region as Shenzhen) has a set of very impressive digital OOH and ambient media pieces in called Cultural Sky Plaza, located in the center of the pre-security check-in area. The idea of the main piece, it seems, is to …
DC University’s LED Scoreboard Has A Serious Oopsie September 12, 2018 by Dave Haynes Media outlets have heavily over-played this, but it is still an interesting cautionary tale that the scoreboard at the arena for a university in Washington, DC fell onto the basketball court Tuesday afternoon. The coverage tends to vaguely imply the four-sided LED board at George Washington University fell from the rafters, perhaps because that sounds …
180 Sq. Metres Of LED Bring London Skies Down To Medieval Passageway September 12, 2018 by Dave Haynes The property developer wanted to retain and highlight a medieval passageway that runs through the center of a new office tower development in London – uniquely using live 4K video streaming from a rooftop garden to fill the canvas of what is the largest ceiling-suspended LED screen in Europe. The development at Fen Court (10 …
Six Fine-Pitch LED Columns Welcome Visitors To Louis Vuitton Foundation September 11, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is the atrium of the Louis Vuitton Foundation building in Paris – a one-of-a-kind business and cultural center that is also an art museum and the global headquarters of LVMH, the parent company of Louis Vuitton. There are six fine-pitch LED columns welcoming guests and displaying artworks from the museum’s collection, as well as LV branded themes. …
NEC Gets Deeper Into Direct View LED September 7, 2018 by Dave Haynes The big LCD display manufacturers continue to get more deeply involved in direct view LED – a move driven at least in part by the migration of video wall business from LCD to genuinely seamless LED surfaces. NEC Display Solutions this week announced the launch of both outdoor and indoor products built off the acquisition …
Transparent LEDs And Interactive Walls At Nissan’s Amazing Ginza Experience Center September 6, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is really something – the Nissan Crossing experience center in Tokyo’s famed Ginza shopping district. The center has mostly been around since 1963, but was brought back and fully re-energized a couple of years ago, using a lot of technology. The feature car turntable at the base has LED strips on the circular glass …
Coke’s Ballyhooed Shape-Shifting LED Board In Time Square Is Now Very Much 2D August 28, 2018 by Dave Haynes We will probably never get a public story about the three-dimensional, robotic direct view LED display that Coke spent an unknown PILE of money on for Times Square. If you were a contractor and influenced the decision to do that, you’re keeping quiet and saving face. If it is your tech, you are definitely not …
New NYC Pier 17 Destination’s Atrium Enveloped In Direct-View LED August 28, 2018 by Dave Haynes The same company that put together the sync’d LED messaging and ad displays at NYC’s busy Fulton Center has done a similar job at the new Pier 17 at the Seaport District in Lower Manhattan. The technology service provider ANC has installed and now manages a new digital media network that includes more than 2,000 square …
Giant Vertical LED Wall Greets Visitors To Northwestern U’s New Athletic Center August 22, 2018 by Dave Haynes The lobby of the newly opened Walter Athletics Center at Northwestern University in Chicago has a giant vertical LED wall, as well as what looks like large tiled (and possibly interactive) flat-panel display walls to the sides. The facility, which opened August 1st, sits on the shores of Lake Michigan at the school’s Evanston …
