Projects: LED Clouds Hang Over Giant Brand’s NYC Lobby August 9, 2017 by Dave Haynes Sansi North America Displays aka SNA Displays sent over images of new LED displays now up and running in the NYC offices of what is coyly referred to as the world’s largest athletic apparel brand. The signature part of the project is 13 LED “clouds” – LED displays suspended lobby ceiling that sync up and …
Projects: Two LED Towers Go Up In Norfolk’s Revitalized Waterside District August 7, 2017 by Dave Haynes Here’s a nice example of a mixed media digital and analog signboard, one of two put up in the revitalized Waterside District in Norfolk, Virginia. The 23-foot-high boards are 10mm pitch units done by SNA Displays. “This was an interesting and rewarding project for us,” says Jason Helton, executive vice president for SNA Displays. “The client …
Amazing: Dubai Mall Turns On World’s Largest OLED Video Wall August 2, 2017 by Dave Haynes The massive Dubai Mall in guess where has just turned on a new OLED video wall that breaks a bunch of records for sheer scale. It is 50 meters wide by 14 meters tall, fronting the aquarium attraction in the mall. The digital canvas is 1.7 billion pixels. The OLEDs are LG’s, and there are …
Projects: Line Friends Tops New Times Square Store With 1,600 Sq. Ft. LED August 2, 2017 by Dave Haynes Content is a factor, of course, but’s generally kind of amazing how good a 10mm pitch outdoor LED sign can look these days. This is an upgraded LED board that replaced an older digital display used by Aeropostale to advertise its brand outside a Times Square retail store. The new one is for LINE FRIENDS, an …
Changi Airport Previews Incredible 70-Metre Immersive LED Wall August 1, 2017 by Dave Haynes Singapore’s Changi Airport has started providing peaks inside the new Terminal 4, which is set to open before the end of this year. One of the big features is a vast immersive fine pitch LED video wall at the security screening area. Instead of small screens and talking flat ladies droning on endlessly about what …
Projects: 3-Storey Floating LED Wall Greets USC J-School Students July 20, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is the student atrium in the newly-built Annenberg Hall at the University of Southern California in LA, which has a showpiece 3-storey-tall display intended to draw the attention of students, possibly even getting them to look up from their smartphones. The hall is part of the ?Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. The five-storey student …
Nanolumens Puts One Patent Infringement Lawsuit On Hold July 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes NanoLumens has filed a dismissal, without prejudice, on one of the patent infringement lawsuits it launched about a month ago against four U.S. competitors. The suit against Gable Signs & Graphics, Inc. has been put on hold, says a press release, “so that the parties can engage in discussions.
Projects: Overhead LEDs Come Alive At Bomb Factory July 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes Here’s a couple of shots of a nice temporary application of LEDs suspended over the crowd at a corporate event staged at a Dallas venue called The Bomb Factory. Live event design and production provider Goalen Group used PixelFLEX 3.9mm LEDs for a supplier awards ceremony held by a big aerospace manufacturer. “We specialize in …
Fine Pitch LED Now Good Enough To Use As Movie Theatre Screens July 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes Anyone who has been to a signage trade show in the last two or three years has likely looked at fine pixel pitch LED screens and concluded they were starting to look pretty damn good, but I doubt few though they were the sorts of things that could replace big movie theater screens and projectors. …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Meric Adriansen, D3 June 28, 2017 by Dave Haynes I find, more and more, that some of the more successful companies in this business are a bit like stealth submarines. They run silent and deep, and you don’t hear much about them or see them around. That would apply pretty nicely to D3, a New York company that is in the LED display business. …
