Call Out For Digital Artists To Populate Digital Signage Screens At NYC’s Fulton Center June 1, 2018 by Dave Haynes The team behind the massive digital signage network at the Fulton Center subway station in New York have put a call out for visual artists who want to show their new media work on many screens in and around the facility. MTA Arts & Design wants to “establish a deep pool of fresh new …
Lumipixels Cleverly Marries Motion LED Lighting With Fabric Branding Lightboxes June 1, 2018 by Dave Haynes One of the challenges with being in an industry so long – even before it had a name – is getting jaded and a bit bored. I go to trade shows, like next week’s InfoComm, and mostly shrug. The stuff is amazing, beautiful, brighter, skinnier, lighter, faster … lots of things with “ers” on the …
Transparent Shop Window LEDs Drive Brand, Foot Traffic At San Francisco Levi’s Flagship May 29, 2018 by Dave Haynes The flagship Levi Strauss & Co. store at Market and 4th Street in San Francisco is using a nice pair of transparent LED screens in the big shop windows to drive the brand and pull people inside. The shop windows are running video pieces using Reflect’s CMS and two FLEXClear transparent LED video displays from …
New Sphere Touted For Vegas Would Have 170,000 Sq. Ft. High-Rez LED Display May 25, 2018 by Dave Haynes Las Vegas is up there with Dubai and China for over-the-top buildings and attractions, but a new entertainment complex touted to be open in 2-3 years may top them all. The MSG Sphere is giant see-through ball that will house an 18,000 seat concert and events venue. The Sphere would be 360-feet-tall and 500-feet-wide, and …
FCC Cracking Down On Non-Compliant LED Display Vendors (Updated) May 18, 2018 by Dave Haynes When LED companies like Watchfire and Daktronics started making noises in the past year about the perils of buying offshore product that was not FCC licensed, it was reasonable to think a little bit of that was about sowing some FUD – Fear Uncertainty & Doubt. Nothing like the risk of fines or being shut …
Projects: An LED Veil And LED Floor Energize Kuwait City Mall Expansion May 15, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a series of gorgeous curved displays in The Avenues mall, a mega mall in Kuwait City. The project, called Electra, was put together by the solutions provider StandardVision in a new part of the shopping center. There is a 360 degree, 600 square meter immersive LED video veil and an interactive LED floor. All …
2018 InfoComm Lookahead: 336 Exhibitors Say They’re In Digital Signage, But … May 11, 2018 by Dave Haynes I am starting to wrap my head around InfoComm, which is coming up in early June in Las Vegas. It’s not a show I attend to see new stuff. I go to spend the poking around time that I never get during Digital Signage Expo. It is mostly about display technology and related stuff, like …
Aisle-Topper LED Ribbons For Hershey In Big Box Retailing May 7, 2018 by Dave Haynes Not a huge fan of shelf-level LED strips because the resolution isn’t there for close viewing, and the little LED light chips will get the crap beat out of them, but I do like the big aisle-topper ribbon display implementation at a big-box store somewhere, by the LA-area company AWM Smart Shelf. To be fair, …
Big LED Posters Light Up Retail Space Near NYC World Trade Center May 3, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a series of new digital OOH displays in a office tower mall in the area around the rejuvenated World Trade Center complex in New York. The displays are all SNA (Sansi) LEDs – a mix of 2mm with remote power supplies and 6mm indoor modules that use outdoor-rated diodes (brighter) due to the location …
Projects: Giant LED Tower Visually Dominates Central Court In Oman Mall April 27, 2018 by Dave Haynes The is what’s touted as the biggest LED tower in the Middle East, a 40-foot tall by 15 foot wide structure that also has an LED floor surround, now up and running at the Muscat Grand Mall in Oman. The tower which used 4mm LEDs and adds up to 263 square meters of visual canvas, …
