Leyard Wins Deal For Fine Pitch LED Backdrops For NBC’s Winter Olympics Broadcast Set November 14, 2017 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Programmable LED Pylons Light Up Philly Office Development October 24, 2017 by Dave Haynes I don’t know that these could purely be described as digital signs, as they’re just doing ambient digital art, but they’re very nice … This is a pair of 50-foot tall LED pylons raised at the front of the Commerce Square office development in Philadelphia. Signage fabricator DCL design-engineered, built and installed the units – made out of …
Highway Billboard Color-Matches Paint Swatches To Surrounding Sky’s Color October 23, 2017 by Dave Haynes This a couple of years old, but just stumbled on it. The Quebec DIY store Reno Depot did a Digital OOH campaign in Feb. 2015 in Quebec that used a sensor to match conditions and color to house-brand paint swatches available at the store. Very clever.
Watch This Spectacular Custom Creative For A Korean Department Store Group October 23, 2017 by Dave Haynes South Korean retail giant Shinsegae Corporation engaged Montreal’s Moment Factory to create custom creative for the 6-storey LED centrepiece of a new shopping and entertainment complex in Daegu, south of Seoul. Hired only weeks before the public opening, says the experiential agency, Moment Factory applied our broad experience in entertainment to rapidly activate the teams …
