Projects: 280 Foot Wide LED Wall Lights Up In World Trade Center’s New Mall August 11, 2016 by Dave Haynes The retail component of the new World Trade Center in New York finally, formally, opens next week, and the 16 acre site will include some 5,000 square feet of LED. The signature installation is a 280-foot wide 4mm pixel pitch LED wall running along a concourse, driven by 12 sync’d HD outputs from players that …
Projects: NanoLumens’ 1.8 mm LED Supplants LCD Wall For DIRTT August 2, 2016 by Dave Haynes There’s nothing about this installation that’s going to set hearts racing, but it’s a vivid example of how direct view LED is starting to supplant LCD when it comes to video walls. Calgary-based DIRTT Environmental Solutions, which makes pre-fabricated workplace interiors, has switched out the 2×4 LCD video wall matrix that was in the lobby of its …
Projects: Have A Look At The Largest Outdoor LED Wall in South China August 1, 2016 by Dave Haynes Massive LED billboards are by no means found only, these days, in world capitals and insane places like Las Vegas. This is a an 1,855 square metre LED wrapped around a building in the south China city of Shantou, up the coastline from Hong Kong (if that helps). Touted as the largest outdoor LED in south …
Projects: 80 Million Pixels Light Up At Dubai’s New City Walk Market July 12, 2016 by Dave Haynes This looks kind of amazing – 12 football fields worth of digital visuals on LED and projection in the new Meraas City Walk market in Dubai. Overall, the Meraas project involves more than 30 LED installations in 21 different formats and nearly 30 high-res projectors totalling over 80 million pixels. It’s easily one of the most ambitious digital …
16:9 Podcasts: Jennifer Davis, Leyard July 6, 2016 by Dave Haynes In this episode, I’m speaking with Jennifer Davis, who is Chief Marketing Officer for Leyard and also the VP of Marketing and Product Strategy for Planar, which is now owned by Leyard. So she’s one busy puppy these days. Jennifer grabbed us a meeting space on the exhibit floor at InfoComm last month, and we …
16:9 Podcasts: Rick Cope, NanoLumens June 29, 2016 by Dave Haynes In this episode, I’m speaking with Rick Cope, the founder and CEO of NanoLumens, which makes and markets its own line of unique indoor and outdoor LED displays from its facilities in Atlanta. Rick has a really interesting background, coming out of the US Marines and being in the thick of things during Desert Storm, …
Projects: LED Staircase Leads Way Into New Vegas Nightclub June 23, 2016 by Dave Haynes I’m not quite sure how a company based in Ottawa, Ontario got a nightclub deal in Las Vegas, Nevada, but UTG Digital Media from Canada’s capital has installed a slick LED staircase at the new JEWEL Nightclub at the Aria casino-hotel. The club opened in May, and is managed by the hospitality company Hakkasan Group, which also …
InfoComm 2016 Roundup: Any Surface Is A Canvas June 17, 2016 by Dave Haynes InfoComm 2016 in Las Vegas left systems integrators and visual designers with a vast menu of possibilities for turning just about any surface into a digital canvas. The annual pro-AV show – which focuses on audio-visual gear – had two full convention center halls of diverse technology, and attracted 10s of 1,000s of attendees – …
Leyard Debuts Series Of Light, Skinny Carbon Fiber LED Displays June 2, 2016 by Dave Haynes When I was over at the ISE show in Amsterdam a few months ago, I remember seeing a Shenzhen company that had a set of lightweight, skinny and flexible LED display products that I thought would make the NanoLumens guys think, “Gee, that looks familiar.” But the company was one I’d never heard of, so …
Projects: Billboard Ads Take A Break For A Midnight Moment In Times Square May 6, 2016 by Dave Haynes Via The Creators Project If you are making your way through New York’s Time Square very late one evening this month, you may see the LED boards around the area suddenly fill up with flowers, in an art project called Midnight Moment. At 11:57 each night, the ad rotation changes over to public art for …
