New SeaWorld Attraction In Abu Dhabi Includes Vast 220-Meter 360-Degree LED Wall May 24, 2023 by Dave Haynes The first SeaWorld attraction outside the U.S. has opened on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi – with a pile of AV tech that includes one of the larger LED displays deployed to date. The attraction formally opened its gates yesterday, and one of the key features is a screen in the One Ocean Hub area. …
Start-up i5LED Brings On Display Industry Vet Wang To Drive Global Business May 18, 2023 by Dave Haynes The US-based LED display start i5LED has formalized the hiring of one of the more hyper-connected people in the industry to help drive business development globally. The Sacramento company has appointed Lynn Wang as Global Head of Business Development, though she and her CEO boss George Pappas have been making the trade show and conference …
Pitches For Outdoor LED Displays Getting Fine Enough To Rival High-Bright LCD Units May 16, 2023 by Dave Haynes The high brightness outdoor LCD business has been at least a little insulated from the rise of LED displays because the pixel pitch for outdoor units wasn’t anywhere near tight enough to supplant LCDs for applications that had messaging that would be read at close quarters. Outdoor LED was great, at a distance. But now …
Wavy LED Canopy Drives Experience In At Chinese Porsche Showroom May 16, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting use of digital display for a new Porsche Studio urban auto dealer showcase in Changsha, a city of some 10 million people in Central China. There is a big flexible LED canopy, or almost like a flying carpet, suspended over the showroom and visible from the street. If I am reading …
LED-Driven Silhouettes Drive Experience At New Nike Store In Antwerp May 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes Photo: TDM Space Athletic wear retail seems to always have a lot of screens and visual energy, but this new Rise store for Nike in Antwerp, Belgium does things a little differently, with an upper level that uses big, full motion silhouettes on the walls. The store has LED tickers, big product and branding displays …
Books Tumble Off Shelf On This Great LED Retail Facade At Qatar’s Flashy New Airport May 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes As LED costs have lowered and awareness among architects and retail space designs has increased, we’ve started to see some premium locations of stores replace conventional facades with digital versions – and this is a great example of a brand using creative to really work with the physical set-up. It is a Day2Day newsstand-style store …
Gorgeous LED Art Install Seemingly Grows Off Shenzhen Building’s Interior Balcony May 9, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is a gorgeous experiential LED installation in a building somewhere in Shenzhen, China – with the structure made to be reminiscent of Rubik’s Cubes. I don’t know where or what, but the LED supplier is the Shenzhen manufacturer Ocolour. That company is absolutely relentless on Linkedin, with a steady drip-drip of posts about product. …
Portable Structures Firm Tops Pop-Up Building With Folding LED Display For Public Events May 9, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting mash-up of a pop-up portable structure for events with a large direct view LED panel that rests on the roof. Called The Cube Sight and Sound, it’s about the size of a small sea container, but is designed to collapse and fold into a much smaller footprint for transportation. The idea …
ND Start-up Ties Car Dealer Systems Into DOOH Billboards For Automated Marketing May 8, 2023 by Dave Haynes Data integration tools that automate content from management platforms to screens is by no means a new concept, but a start-up in the middle of North Dakota has an interesting take on this for digital billboard operators and local businesses. Lucit, based in Bismarck, ND, develops and markets a platform that allows customers to view, …
Children’s Drawings Used To Generate Massive Public Digital Portrait Of Charles III May 8, 2023 by Dave Haynes There’s been a lot of buzz in the display industry lately about the potential for AI-based generative art, but here’s a very large visual generated from 1,000s of people instead of a super-computing cluster. A charitable initiative called BBC Children In Need partnered with artist Sam Barnett and the operators of Outernet London to develop …
