Vast Shanghai Stadium Builds Motion LED Into Seating Bowl Canopy September 15, 2022 by Super User Giant LED displays at new or upgraded sports and entertainment stadiums have grown increasingly column, with the most noteworthy examples to date the halos suspended over the playing surfaces in Atlanta and at LA’s SoFi Stadium. But I haven’t seen a stadium done with LED the way it’s been applied at the renovated 80,000-set Shanghai …
This Clever Creative Makes The Corner Of A Dallas Office Block Come Alive September 13, 2022 by Super User One of the great visual tricks that LED is particularly useful for is picking up the characteristics and look of the immediate surroundings, and then creating surprises by transforming into something entirely different. The first time I saw this was inside, years ago, at the Comcast head office tower lobby in Philadelphia. The whole back …
Spanish Apparel Retailer Lefties Opens Digital-Filled Store Of Future In Barcelona September 12, 2022 by Super User Details are hard to find, but this is the newly-opened “store of the future” from an apparel brand called Lefties – at a mall in Barcelona. Lefties os part of the giant Inditex retail group and I think it is positioned as an outlet store for fast fashion giant Zara. The store has one hell …
Global LED Display Shipments Up Almost 18% In Q2 2022: Omdia September 12, 2022 by Super User Growth in shipments for LED video displays was up almost 18 percent globally in Q2 of this year, with that worldwide number actually throttled by slowed growth in China because of COVID lockdowns. The research and analysis firm Omdia says global LED video display shipments grew 17.7% Year on Year for the second quarter of …
Transparent LED On Film Offers New Life And Option For Projected Illusion Creative September 12, 2022 by Super User Regular readers will have come across many, many posts here about different display technologies and visual tricks that create visual illusions generally labeled as holograms or holographic, though they’re not … really. We’ve seen transparent LCDs, transparent OLEDs, projections of transparent film and those spinning LED light sticks. But I had not really thought about …
Giant LED Statues Not Rising Up As Planned, Just Yet, But Irish Firm Has A Two-Metre Demo Ready September 9, 2022 by Super User That Irish company that hopes to have giant LED statues go up as attractions around the planet doesn’t seem to be rolling out at its publicized pace, but will show a reduced-size version of its concept at a UK theme park trade show in a couple of weeks. A two-metre preview of what’s called The …
Custom “Show Capsule” Creative Spans 100,000+ Sq. Ft. Of LED At Resorts World (with Video) September 8, 2022 by Super User There has been quite a bit of trade press coverage of the giant screens cladding the new-ish Resorts World casino resort up just past the Fashion Show mall and Trump Hotel on the Vegas Strip, but not as much attention placed on what’s on those grand-scale screens. Montreal-based creative technology shop Moment Factory was commissioned …
Modern Display Technology Can Handle New On-Off Energy Restriction Demands In EU: NEC-Sharp Experts September 8, 2022 by Super User EDITOR – This is an interesting take from German language content partner Invidis, with insights from Sharp-NEC, on how digital signage network operators can navigate energy consumption and cost issues that have emerged in Europe. Guest Post: Florian Rotberg, Invidis In times of scarce energy supply, the pressure on digital signage network operators increases, because …
Virtual Gold Waves Slosh Along 112-Metre LED Wall In Shanghai September 7, 2022 by Super User The international art collective teamLab is mainly known for developing and running experiential exhibitions at fixed sites like museums and galleries, but the artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians and architects also work on temporary projects like this pretty amazing 112-metre video wall along a walkway in a Shanghai subway station. This artwork, says teamLab, …
Metal Fatigue On Under-Spec’d Suspension Wire Caused That LED Collapse At HK Concert: Task Force August 31, 2022 by Super User Metal fatigue on a suspension wire that was probably under-spec’d led to the collapse of an LED screen hanging over the performing stage at a boy band concert in Hong Kong in late July, according to a task force now looking into what happened and why. The rated strength of the wire that snapped at …
