Billboard-Maker Media Resources New Solution Compels Endlessly-Pooping Birds To Flock Off April 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Toronto-area analog and digital sign firm Media Resources has developed an interesting partnership to use and sell tech that’s specifically designed to keep birds away from billboards. The company says it now has an “industry-exclusive distributorship” for Flock Off, described as a one-of-a-kind bird mitigation system that keeps birds away from billboards and other …
Watch: Midtown NYC Office Block Gets Fantastic Digital Makeover In Common Spaces April 27, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a fantastic example of a corporate client buying entirely into the advice that creative should drive the decisions and designs when using technology as an architectural design feature. The big NYC commercial property developer Vornado Realty Trust engaged Montreal’s Moment Factory to rethink the lobby and common spaces experience at PENN 1, a …
Samsung Starts Bundling Planning, Install Work With Its Premium “The Wall” LED Displays April 27, 2022 by Dave Haynes Many to most of the LED display manufacturers selling outside of China have, in recent years, started marketing bundled, fixed-size screens and gear as a way to simplify the buying and planning of an unfamiliar product for both resellers and end-users. Now Samsung – at least the German business unit – has gone to the …
Fine Pitch LED Takes Over From LCD, Rear-Projection Systems At Houston Automation Firm April 26, 2022 by Dave Haynes Fine pitch LED is now at a price-point and resolution that it is replacing set-ups like LCD video walls and projection cubes for such uses as corporate showrooms and presentation spaces – as is the case with an automation company in the Houston area. Emerson Automation Solutions engaged integrator AVI Systems to design and put …
82 LED Displays Sync’d For One Night Swarovski Branding Event At Saudi Retail Complex April 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes Wow. Just wow. This is a screen takeover done for the crystal glass brand Swarovski – a VERY ambitious one-night branding event at a retail complex. It is sync’d content across 82 screens of varying shapes and scales. The on-screen content was developed and delivered by the Belgian creative technology shop Bureau Beatrice, which recently …
Stockholm “Space” Touted As World’s Largest Gaming Center Adds Experiential LED Canopy April 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes German content partners Invidis put up a post today about an interesting and vast new digital culture center that’s opened in central Stockholm, with some very big LED walls and a hell of a lot of smart monitors. Called Space, is a multi-level “physical meeting place” for people into all things digital, most notably esports. …
OOH Industry Vet Reviews State Of Times Square LED Boards, And Gives It A D+ April 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes Out of home and display industry veteran Alan High periodically sends me an email with his industry impressions, and often his phone camera shots, from travels into New York City. He’d not been into Manhattan in 18 months, because you know why, and in his latest observations, says much has changed, and not all of …
Mitsui Foundation Lights Up 10 Big LED Displays With Custom Content In NYC Lobby April 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a very nice, quite different take on using digital display to enliven a corporate office tower lobby. While a lot of projects these days are about one very large, wall-filling display as the showpiece, the Mitsui Foundation’s renovated lobby at 1251 Avenue of the Americas in New York uses 10 LED displays notched …
Tech Giant Hewlett Packard Using Big LED To Immerse, Inspire At Houston HQ April 19, 2022 by Dave Haynes Tech giant Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has worked a series of large LED displays into its global headquarters in the Houston area, with a goal of providing immersive experiences, as well as artistic and inspirational pieces, and branded content. The displays are all from SNA Displays, are using Scala as the CMS, and were put …
Watch: Big Downtown Dallas LED Wall Becomes Virtual Rube Goldberg Machine April 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is pretty amazing three-dimension illusion content, done for that big LED wall on the corner of a building in the AT&T Discovery District in Dallas. The piece was developed by the local (to Dallas) agency Flight School Studio, and is a virtual/mechanical Rube Goldberg machine that is one-part musical instrument, one-part contraption. It has …
