The Biggest Indoor DOOH Billboard In Europe Derailed At London Station, Just A Year After Lighting Up October 8, 2024 by Super User Europe’s largest indoor digital billboard has been switched off less than a year after being installed, but not for technical or energy conservation reasons. The government-owned company that manages the UK’s train network and stations has ordered the big ad display shut off because of larger problems, like overcrowding, at London’s Euston Station. Network Rail …
Near-Transparent LED Panels Create Faux Water Feature At Guilin, China Exhibition Hall October 4, 2024 by Super User The flowery descriptions and misuse of holographic and invisible are a bit much, but this installation using super-thin mesh-like display panels made by the Chinese company Muxwave is nonetheless interesting. There was a point when big video walls started replacing things like high-maintenance water features in the lobbies of commercial buildings, and now we have …
Super-Clever LED Fins Make Store’s Media Facade On Narrow High Street Visible To People Approaching On Foot October 3, 2024 by Super User This is a fantastically well-conceived, engineered and executed digital media facade on the front of a perfume company’s flagship store and HQ in Andorra. A set of vertical LED fins enable views from people walking toward the building, even though the pedestrian-only high street is very narrow. Barcelona-based creative technology studio Instronic did the job …
Giant 62-Foot Tall W Made From LED Greets Visitors To WWE’s New HQ October 2, 2024 by Super User The ability to create shapes that aren’t just flat rectangles has always been a big selling advantage of LED displays, and that advantage really gets pushed here with a truly giant 62-foot high letter W made from custom LED cabinets in the new Stamford, CT headquarters of World Wrestling Entertainment. The fully custom display is …
Clearing Up Confusion Around What Is Truly MicroLED October 1, 2024 by Ross Noonan Guest Post: Ross Noonan, LED Studio Let’s clear up some of the confusion, once and for all, around microLED. The true definition of microLED can vary depending on who you ask, leading to industry confusion and the false claims. Let’s clarify this debate with some clear facts. MicroLED, miniLED, and standard LED are defined by …
KC’s New Airport Terminal Latest To Adopt LED Displays To Guide Passenger Journeys September 30, 2024 by Super User It’s pretty clear that big video walls for meat and potatoes passenger messaging are becoming part of the standard build for new or renovated airport terminals, with the new 39-gate Kansas City International Airport terminal the latest example. A $1.5 billion project includes screens for guiding passengers at curbside drop-off and then inside at check-in …
Ambitious New Pop-Up Store On London’s Oxford Street Borrows On Nearby Outernet London’s Visual Scale September 30, 2024 by Super User Something that might be described as a pop-up retail version of the immersive, LED-driven Outernet London attraction is opening soon just a couple of blocks away, on the UK capital’s busiest high street. Future Stores will fill the Oxford Street-facing ground floor of a commercial block, using big entryways and curtain wall glass to give …
LED Curtain Creates Ambient Three-Dimensional Low-Rez Visuals In Paris Concert Hall Lobby September 27, 2024 by Super User A three-dimensional display has to have some dimension and volume to be more than marketing 3D – though lots of 2D products trick the eye with transparency and clever creative. Here’s a very low-rez 3D display related to the beauty products brand CLARINS, a 360° art installation in the lobby of the Salle Pleyel concert …
Watch: A Giant Butterfly With LED Wings September 26, 2024 by Super User This is not what I’d call digital signage, bur it is using LED to offer up something that is the definition of experiential – a giant butterfly with some 39,000 LEDs that flaps its wings as people below use an oversized porch swing. The 26 x 14 foot butterfly is 15 feet above the ground. …
Storied Kentucky College Basketball Program Using That LED In Glass Dynamic Surface For 2024-25 Season Launch September 26, 2024 by Super User In what is likely a preview of what may grow increasingly common among deeper-pocketed, alumni-supported programs, the storied University of Kentucky basketball program will introduce its 2024-25 teams next month on one of those multimedia LED sports floors out of Germany. An ASB GlassFloor – the same tech used for the NBA All-Star Skills night …
