Cylindrical Shenzhen Telecom Building Half-Wrapped In LED To Create Billboard August 4, 2023 by Dave Haynes This in an interesting use of cladding and partially wrapping around a small, cylindrical commercial building in Shenzhen, China. It is on the Nanshan Telecom building in the Nanshan district of that tech-centric city near Hong Kong. The main half cylinder visible to the street is more than 1,200 sq. meters of Sansi 16mm pitch …
Austrian Plastics Giant Puts Big LED Video Wall In Its Local Football Club Hospitality Suite August 2, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is the corporate suite at a football stadium for a big Austrian firm called Greiner, which is one of the biggest manufacturers of plastic and foam on the planet. The company’s head office is near Linz, a small city about halfway between Vienna and Munich. Its home football club is Lask, which has a …
Color Blocks Frenetically Appear In This Public Generative Art Piece In Seoul August 1, 2023 by Dave Haynes Here’s a very different take from the shape-shifting, oozing generative art for video walls that Turkish-American artist Refik Anadol pioneered and influenced in countless other LED video wall projects. Called Host and Ghost, the piece is running on the Donuimun Museum Village Media Facade in Seoul this summer – the latest in a rotation of …
Novartis Global HQ Integrates Solar Panels To Drive Its Own Media Facade On New Pavilion July 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes Via German language content partner invidis (Photo: Laurids Jensen) … There is much to like and admire about this new pavilion on the Basel, Switzerland global HQ campus of the pharmaceutical company Novartis. It plays out purpose-designed digital art on its surface at night, on LEDs embedded and powered by the solar collectors that are …
The 2023 Digital Signage Yearbook Now Available As A Free Download July 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes The 2023 version of the annual invidis digital signage yearbook is now available as a free download. The publication – done both as an oversized print magazine and as a PDF – has some 200 pages of stories, studies, analyses and market data, primarily about the European market. For the past two years, Sixteen:Nine has …
Another Robotic LED DOOH Display Surfaces – Shape-Shifting In Seoul July 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes A vendor has passed along a link to a video showing its robotic LED DOOH billboard operating in Seoul, with the assertion that the unit has been mechanically shape-shifting without incident for more than a year. The manufacturer PJ Link was responding to a recent Linkedin repost I did about a kinetic display being used …
Vast LED Screen Inside Las Vegas Sphere Supported By Almost 2,000 Loudspeakers July 24, 2023 by Dave Haynes The great majority of media attention about that giant LED ball that’s been lit up in Las Vegas has been about the outside visuals, but there will also be a huge 160,000 sq. ft. screen inside the 20,000 seat event venue, backed by what’s being called immersive sound. The Sphere, as it is called, will …
MiniLED Mainstreaming, While True MicroLED For Pro Displays Still Years Off: Futuresource InfoComm Report July 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes The UK-based research firm Futuresource sends teams of analysts to the major pro AV trade shows, and there were several people in Orlando last month for InfoComm – resulting in part in a round-up deck that the company kindly makes available as a free download to the industry at large. Portland, OR-based Ted Romanowitz does …
Media Resources Release Third-Gen Of Its Digital Billboard Light Pollution Counter-Measures Tech July 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes LED and traditional sign manufacturer Media Resources has developed and released a third generation of technology designed to reduce the amount of light from its digital billboards finding its way into the living quarters of nearby residences. The third-gen, patented SITELINE technology provides what the suburban Toronto company calls “light trespass mitigation” for LED displays. …
Arcade Gaming Classic Space Invaders Sees Revival On Big DOOH Screens Across Europe July 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes Big LED billboards across nine European cities are being used to celebrate 45 years since the original release if the iconic arcade game SPACE INVADERS, using a mash-up of technologies to drive an experience that starts on the big screens and extends to the smartphone screens of eager gamers. The SPACE INVADERS: World Defense campaign …
