Wildly Ambitious Plan Makes Saudi Stadium One Big Experiential Display January 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes We’ve seen ambitious sports and entertainment stadiums go up in recent years that made LED displays – like halos in Atlanta and LA – a big part of the design and venue experience, but here’s a somewhat mind-blowing plan for a new stadium in Saudi Arabia that sees much of the building inside and out …
Shoes And Bags Designer Kurt Geiger Makes 24 Sq. Meter LED Video Focal Point Of London Flagship January 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes A Linkedin post by UK solutions provider Pixel Inspiration reminded me of a forgotten photo I shot while walking along London’s busy Oxford Street on a visit last fall – a big and impressive video wall in the flagship for London-based shoe designer Kurt Geiger. It is a 24 square meter display at the service …
That Giant LED Statue Concept Finally Finds A First Home January 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Irish company that’s been touting, for a few years now, the idea of giant LED-driven humanoids that show images of famous people has finally found a first home – in a US shopping mall that is all about the bling. A couple of news outlets – including AV Interactive – are reporting that Dublin …
Almost 3,000 Computer-Controlled Tiles Mimic Sea’s Motions In This Giant Kinetic Sculpture January 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is not digital signage, and more an alternative to the big LED visuals that have been schemed into newly-built experiential environments in the last few years. Like big video walls, this project uses real-time data to drive the visual experience. It’s a giant kinetic sculpture that encompasses a grand staircase on a new cruise …
Alfalite Bundles Digital Art Library, Media Player Into New AlfaArt Turnkey Video Wall Solution January 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes One of the ongoing challenges of selling big LED video displays into corporate and private spaces is coming up with a plan that not only factors in the cost and integration challenges of the physical screen, but also what’s going to be on it. The Spanish firm Alfalite, which bills itself as the only European …
LED Mainstreamed: Chicago Cocktail Lounge Uses Fine Pitch Video Wall To Drive Experience January 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes New and different evidence of how LED is mainstreaming as a display and experiential option – a cocktail lounge in Chicago with a fine pitch LED video wall. It is for a bar called Valedor and involves four 55-inch LED cabinets tiled together – four wide and two high – to create the video wall, …
Apparel Retailer Uses Big LED Header As Product-Explainer In LA Flagship January 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes Big screens in fashion retail is nothing new, but I like how the body-positivity retailer Good American has worked a big LED header into the overall store design for a flagship store at the Westfield Century City Mall in LA. The store – opened last summer – has a custom 31.5-feet-wide LED ribbon that runs …
MSG Abandons Plans To Replicate The Vegas Sphere In London January 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes It appears any aspirations to replicate the Las Vegas Sphere in London, UK have been abandoned – with news that Madison Square Garden (MSG), the parent company of Sphere Entertainment, has withdrawn its planning application. The company has complained that the project had become a political football, and it was evidently not enjoying being kicked …
Add How Buildings Can Move To Your List of Planning Considerations For Big LED Displays January 9, 2024 by Mikell Senger GUEST POST: MIKELL SENGER, SNA DISPLAYS Both in terms of scale and beauty, the construction world continues to produce more and more amazing structures. As a mechanical engineer and senior project manager for SNA Displays, I’m very fortunate to be a part of projects with complex construction elements, and I’m constantly marveling at the work-product …
Double-Curved LED Store Facade, Winding LED Ribbons Light Up Duty-Free At Abu Dhabi’s Expanded Airport January 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is a nice project involving the duty-free operator at Abu Dhabi’s main airport – with the main highlights a clever “double-curved” digital facade and big curving LED ribbon inside the store. The entry to the store has a half-circle tight-pitch LED that is curved both vertically and horizontally – like part of a sphere, …
