Biz Dev Alert: LED-Palooza Planned At Crimson Tide’s Main Sports Venues August 20, 2018 by Dave Haynes Someone on the LED display side of the business with ties to the University of Alabama may want to place a couple of calls to fellow alumni about a $600 million, 10-year plan that will see a whole bunch of new digital displays added to the public and behind the scenes areas of the Crimson …
NanoLumens Develops Credit Course Aimed At Educating Architects On LED Tech August 16, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a clever move by NanoLumens to get firmly on the radar of architects who design interior spaces, and do things like scheme in big LED video walls: get in their education ecosystem. The Atlanta LED display manufacturer has developed a new certified course to be offered through the American Institute of Architects’ Continuing Education …
LED Display Market Now Valued At More Than $5B: Futuresource August 16, 2018 by Dave Haynes LED displays are now a $5 billion global market, with the Americas region reaching a key milestone of $1 billion for the first time in 2017. The data comes from the market research firm Futuresource Consulting, which makes displays one of a relatively short list of vertical markets it studies. I note this because news …
Watchfire Wins $30M Deal For Refreshed Fremont Street LED Canopy August 15, 2018 by Dave Haynes Danville, IL-based LED sign company Watchfire Signs has won the monster deal for a new multimedia LED canopy over Fremont Street in Las Vegas. The upgraded sign will have 130,000 sq. ft. of LED – which in less technical terms means a lot. Watchfire, in a press release, says it was selected from among 15 digital screen …
Tokyo’s Narita Airport Has Video Wall Ode To Toliets, Using Low-Rez LEDs And Fabric Panels July 31, 2018 by Dave Hayneshttps://youtu.be/mmgWUMyrNhI This is something called Luminous Textiles – a Philips product that blends multi-coloured LEDs with fabric panels. I’ve seen stuff a bit like this using relatively low-rez LED modules and a layer of film that diffuses and softens the light. In this case, it’s for a working exhibit at Tokyo’s Narita airport that celebrates …
Watch This Very Impressive 3D Animation Done For Rolls-Royce Stand July 30, 2018 by Dave Haynes Here’s another video in which I’m short on details. This is from the Rolls-Royce exhibit at the recent Farnborough air show in the UK. I spotted it on Linkedin. The company used a big fine pitch LED cube and very clever three-dimensional graphics to market a component for its jet engines. What’s intriguing is that …
Moving LED Curtain Used To Market Luxury Car July 30, 2018 by Dave HaynesYou are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers. More Information Unblock content Accept required service and unblock content Not sure where this was – guessing somewhere in China. The video just says it is …
LED Canopies, Facades, Columns And Bulkheads Sync’d To Light Up New Madrid Mall July 27, 2018 by Dave HaynesYou are currently viewing a placeholder content from Vimeo. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers. More Information Unblock content Accept required service and unblock content This is what looks to be a very impressive integration of big digital into a shopping …
Largest LED Board In South America Lights Up In Lima July 20, 2018 by Dave Haynes HT @Huggett This is what’s being touted as the largest DOOH digital sign in South America – a 487 sq. metre beast on the front facade of the Plaza Norte shopping mall in Lima, Peru. It almost looks fine pitch LED, but is actually just 16mm – the sort of pitch you see on highway …
2,000 Sq. Ft. Of Gorgeous Visualized Data About To Go Live At Charlotte, NC’s Airport July 17, 2018 by Dave Haynes A nine-gate, $200 million addition to Charlotte Douglas Airport, in North Carolina, opens tomorrow morning, with a main feature being some 2,000 sq. ft. of visualized data on several vast fine-pitch LED video walls. The data visuals are the focal point of a public art piece, called Interconnected, commissioned by the airport to LA data …
