Check Out This Super-Nice, Very Different Digital Lobby Experience At Uber’s HQ (with Video) November 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is super-nice and wonderfully different from a lot of the digital display work that’s going into big company HQ buildings – a two-storey digital art experience in the lobby of Uber’s new head office in the Mission Bay district of San Francisco. The ride-sharing giant hired the Brooklyn-based design firm Hush Studios, and used Electrosonic …
Virtual Pandas Loom Over Busy Chengdu Street Corner November 10, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a nice “forced perspective” aka “anamorphic illusion” creative piece done on a wraparound 90-degree corner LED billboard in Chengdu, China. It involves pandas, as you can see, but I’ve no idea what’s being marketed here. This might just be Wow Factor and a piece that keeps people looking as a string of booked …
No Crying For Boohoo As Its LED-filled Offices Win Big UK AV Award November 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes The UK-based publication AV Magazine does a big awards evening – black tie and the whole nine yards – every year in London, and the 2021 version was the other night. Much of what is handed out is AV stuff that doesn’t have a whole bunch to do with digital signage – think of when …
LED ATM Surround Gets Display-Cased To Stop The Beating November 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes When I have done talks about LED displays with different groups I have often related how susceptible they can be to accidental or intentional damage – especially with conventional surface-mounted LED displays that don’t have any sort of protective coating. Exhibit A in my slides has inevitably been a display that is built around two …
LED On Foil Reduces Weight Of Billboard-Sized Building Screen To Just 110 Pounds November 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes One of the challenges faced by media companies or building owners who want to put up an LED digital billboard on the top or side of a commercial building is sorting out the engineering implication of the additional weight, and how the screen is mounted. In some cases, there might be additional construction or reinforcement …
Saudi Entertainment Complex Emulates Times Square On What Was A Patch Of Sand Four Months Ago November 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is just nutty in terms of the scope, scale and speed at which it came together – a massive retail and entertainment complex that went from a big patch of sand in Riyadh to fully operational and ready for the Saudi public in just four months. The Riyadh City Boulevard development opened this week, …
Dallas Aquarium Uses Big LED Backdrop To Enhance New Rainforest Experience November 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes There is probably a fancy technical term that has “reality” in it that would apply to this interesting project in Dallas, but I dunno what that term is … extended reality, maybe? Suffice to say the project blends the real deal with supporting visuals done digitally. The Dallas World Aquarium (DWA), which takes up two …
That Familiar Curved LED Screen In Toronto’s Financial District Just Got A Facelift November 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes People who work in or regularly pass through Toronto’s financial district will be familiar with the curved LED display that has been parked at a corner of the Bank of Montreal’s office tower for, I’m thinking, at least 15 years. It was one of the earlier LED signs in the city. It’s been upgraded in …
Marathon Oil Uses Fine Pitch LED Sculpture As Visual Feature In New HQ Lobby November 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes Houston-based energy firm Marathon Oil’s new headquarters has fine-pitch LED in the building lobby, but it is not the sort of vast video wall that’s increasingly common as a design feature. Instead, it’s a much smaller, but active sculpture. The design firm Sensory Interactive worked with SNA Displays on a pair of flag-like LED monoliths …
Samsung’s New The Wall Promo Video Does Killer Job Explaining Tech With Visuals November 2, 2021 by Dave Haynes Manufacturers who send me written PR material that goes on and on, and on, about the technical specs of their display product too often seem to forget that what they sell is a visual product. They want to tell me in written material, instead of show me in pix or, better, in video! So it …
