Target’s Flagship Store Remodel Includes 71-Foot Fine Pitch LED Wall August 21, 2017 by Dave Haynes Stumbled across news of Target remodelling the two-level store at the base of its head office in downtown Minneapolis, which includes a curved 71-foot wide LED screen in the upper skyway level of the entry rotunda. No real details on the tech used, what it is for and any other good stuff. It LOOKS like …
Giant Wraparound 8mm LED Board Set To Officially Light Up At 20 Times Square August 21, 2017 by Dave Haynes This beast gets officially lit up Wednesday at 7 PM in Times Square in New York – a wraparound screen corner display that will be the largest in the world using exterior-grade 8mm pitch LED display blocks. The display at 20 Times Square has more than 17,000 square feet of LED. It’s been put in …
Projects: New Ford Dealer Opens With Digital Brand Halo August 18, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is a big “brand halo” LED sign suspended over the main showroom reception desk at the new LaFontaine Ford in Birch Run, Michigan – north of Flint. It’s a fine-pitch Panasonic LED that with its metal backing and struts weighs about 1,000 pounds. It is suspended using aircraft cable. The set-up was put in …
Projects: Transparent Mesh LED Fence Lines Front Of Dubai Mall Aquarium August 16, 2017 by Dave Haynes The aquarium attraction at the huge Dubai Mall recently lit up a massive OLED video wall – which looks amazing. A bit lost in the shuffle was a very large transparent LED mesh fence than runs along the base of the front of the big fish tank, below that huge OLED wall. Transparent mesh LED …
Branded Cities Acquires Clear Channel Outdoor Canada August 15, 2017 by Dave Haynes Phoenix-based Branded Cities Network has acquired Clear Channel Outdoor’s 50.001% interest in Clear Channel Outdoor Canada, making the company the 100% owner of the Canadian entity and adding to Branded Cities’ North American footprint. This is very familiar territory for Branded Cities’ Chairman and CEO Steve Ellman, who founded the Canadian company and had US-based …
Here’s Who’s All Behind Coca-Cola’s Giant New Robotic LED Board In NYC August 15, 2017 by Dave Haynes More information is dribbling out about that giant robotic 3D LED board Coca-Cola switched on last week in Times Square. The vendor list is long, and the one most familiar to the digital signage community is Convergent, which is listed as doing Technology Design and Implementation, Content Management and Monitoring Services. If I was expressly in …
Projects: Fighting Irish Add Giant LED Board, Fine Pitch LED To Renovated Stadium August 15, 2017 by Dave Haynes News of a stadium adding a big-ass LED screen in the stands is commonplace, but what’s interesting about an announcement involving the University of Notre Dame is ALL the fine pitch LED being added around the Fighting Irish’s historic football grounds. The university has put in a 54 by 96 foot 10mm board at one end …
Video: Coca-Cola’s Morphing Times Square LED Board August 11, 2017 by Dave Haynes Here’s a different video looking at that morphing 3D robotic display Coca-Cola has switched on this week in Times Square.
Projects: Coca Cola Switches On World First Robotic 3D LED Board In Times Square August 10, 2017 by Dave Haynes Coca-Cola has had a big sign in NYC’s Times Square for a century, and this week the global brand turned on a new iconic sign billed as the world’s first 3D robotic LED billboard. It has 1,715 moving and 245 static LED cubes, with an overall visual footprint of 240 square meters, which in non-metric terms, is …
Projects: Giant LV Strip Board Framed By Virtual Roman Columns August 10, 2017 by Dave Haynes I don’t think I’ve seen an LED marquee quite like this – a very tall roadside slab that has the curves of three-dimensional Roman columns on each side, wrapped in LED. It’s an 85-foot tall 10mm sign along the Las Vegas Strip, in front of Caesar’s Palace. It went up in June, I believe, for …
