How About A Huge, Fine-Pitch LED Video Wall … In Your Dining Room? November 21, 2016 by Dave Haynes This is in somebody’s house. Yeah. It’s a 21 foot wide wide by 11 foot tall LED video wall made up of 192 1.6mm Planar DirectLight LED modules, and is used as video art and, I guess, to play Dark Souls III and watch Duck Dynasty. The home is in Northern California and was installed with this …
Maybe Big Indoor LED Canvases Don’t Need To Have Crazy-Fine Pixel Pitches? November 9, 2016 by Dave Haynes I’m in New York for the InfoComm Connections conference today, and I suspect it will be a very interesting day to be in the city, given the events of last night. I had a chance Tuesday to do a big walk around to look at a bunch of installations, and the things that struck me are …
80 Million Experiential Pixels Now Lit Up At Dubai Outdoor Retail Complex October 28, 2016 by Dave Haynes The Society For Experiential Graphic Design has its annual xLab conference on even as I type this, but I’m back at HQ and missing the event (but not missing flying out of NYC on a Friday evening … ugh). I did, however, take in a pre-conference event while still in the city Thursday afternoon – …
Giant Three-Sided LED Tower OK’d For LA’s Sunset Boulevard October 24, 2016 by Dave Haynes City councillors in West Hollywood in LA have chosen a winner in a design competition for a digital OOH ad structure that will be seen by motorists and pedestrians along the famed Sunset Boulevard. Called the West Hollywood Belltower, the three-sided vertical structure is anything but a digital billboard stuck on of a pylon. The …
NanoLumens Adds Super Fine Pitch, Front-Serviceable LED Display To Lineup October 12, 2016 by Dave Haynes Atlanta-based NanoLumens made its name with lightweight, flexible indoor LED displays, but like other display manufacturers has in the past two years gone hard after the fine pixel pitch LED market. It’s hard to win on price against a sea of Chinese manufacturers, so Nano is marketing based on slightly more esoteric attributes like performance, serviceability and footprint. …
Projects: Amazing Motion-Sensing LED Lobby In DC September 24, 2016 by Dave Haynes One of the speakers at the Four Winds’ conference in Denver Friday morning was referencing content strategy and design, and showed work done at the Terrell Place building in Washington, DC. Kind of amazing work. The building, actually six conjoined buildings, got a lobby refresh that turned the street-facing walls and elevator lobby into a …
Projects: Wells Fargo’s Ambient LED Columns In Denver September 24, 2016 by Dave Haynes I had a chance to nip into the Wells Fargo bank tower in downtown Denver this afternoon before heading to the airport for the (seriously, repeatedly delayed … yippee) flight back to my socialist paradise. If you recall, this is the big set of LED strips – done a bit like picket fence boards – that …
The Near-Future Of Digital Billboards And Posters Is Programmatic September 21, 2016 by Emily Carroll Guest Post: Brett Farley, NanoLumens Out Of Home (OOH) advertising has exploded with the implementation of digital technology, with nearly 62% of all OOH advertising now done using digitally-enabled displays. In 2010, digital content delivery made up just 9% of total OOH revenue. Companies are now switching out older static networks with digital media because the content can be …
Projects: 86-Foot LED Columns Create Digital Fence Slats In Denver Office Lobby August 31, 2016 by Dave Haynes The lobby and common area of the Wells Fargo Center has been transformed by a series of 86-foot-high floor-to-ceiling LED columns that create a series of gorgeous ambient art pieces. Developed by New York-based ESI Design, the programming is designed to give a sense of seeing Colorado’s natural beauty through fence slats. The custom content modes, says ESI, include: …
Apple Lights Up 6K LED Wall Today At New 1 WTC Store August 16, 2016 by Dave Haynes Via TechCrunch … Apple has opened a large store in New York’s new One World Trade Center retail space, and like other recent stores opened by the tech giant, this one features a large direct view LED wall. The store just opened at noon, and there is a big 6K rez wall in one section …
