New Seattle Arena Has 224 Distinct Daktronics Displays; Touted As Most LED-Filled Venue In Sports October 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes The new sports and entertainment venue in Seattle – Climate Pledge Arena – opens tomorrow with 224 distinct LED displays around the building – 28,175 square feet of digital signage totaling more than 145 million pixels of display. The arena is the home of the new pro hockey franchise – the Seattle Kraken – but …
Planar Takes Its Displays On Road This Fall For MicroPalooza Tour October 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes In a nod to the travel-hesitant times, Planar is taking its display pots and pans on the road this fall – on what it calls the MicroPalooza 2021 Tour. The Oregon-based display manufacturer is staging a six-city US product tour in November through mid-December that will see its LCD and LED product showroom hauled to …
Edmonton Library System Blends LED And LCD For Big Wall In Flagship Branch October 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes I am highly skeptical of the assertion that this is the “biggest digital wall in North America” – unless there are some qualifiers in there – but this installation in a public library in Edmonton, Alberta is nonetheless impressive. The Edmonton Public Library’s flagship Stanley A. Milner Library had a recent re-design that included a …
LED Mesh Displays In Windows Turn Iconic Madrid Bank Building Into Media Facade October 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a flagship Caixabank branch in Madrid, in Plaza Colón, that uses much of the facade of a Norman Foster-designed building as a screen. The digital aspect used see-through mesh LED displays in the windows, and there is a LOT of full-wall LED inside the branch, all running custom experiential content that does not …
Korean Mega-Mall’s 72-Foot Atrium Video Wall Controlled By Smartphone App In Environmental Campaign October 14, 2021 by Dave Haynes The press release borders on impenetrable, but the accompanying image for news about a short-term video wall creative piece in South Korea makes it worth noting. The 22-metre-tall LED video tower in the central atrium of the Starfield Hanam shopping mall started running an art piece yesterday that is controlled, at least in part, by …
Italian Outdoor Brand Includes Small LED Screen On Packaging For New Fragrances October 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip Tim Allan for making me aware of this post in Beauty Packaging, which is not exactly a regular read for me. The Italian Skiwear brand Moncler has resorted to the gimmick of putting what amounts to a low-tech digital sign on the bottles of its new fragrances for men and women. The woody, …
Toronto Office Tower Uses Cascade Of LED Windows To Transform Otherwise Stark Lobby October 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is actually a couple of years old, but just came across a case study about a really nice lobby LED installation in Toronto. My first reaction to a video wall at the Globe and Mail Centre was, “I thought newspapers were running on financial fumes?” But digging into the case study, it appears Canada’s …
Shanghai Museum Uses Giant LED Wall To Add To City’s Iconic Riverfront Skyline October 6, 2021 by Dave Haynes A new museum that’s opened along Shanghai’s famed riverfront features a huge LED video wall that is easily seen by looking across Huangpu River from the Bund at the ultra-modern skyline. In a press release I would politely call confusing as hell, Chinese LED manufacturer LianTronics relates the story behind “Shanghai’s Largest Outdoor Small-pitch LED …
New Disney Epcot Restaurant Uses LED Video Walls To Create Out-Of-This-World Dining Experience October 1, 2021 by Dave Haynes Via CollectSpace There are a few bars and restaurants that have used video walls and displays designed into the decor to create the sense of being somewhere else, like on a train with the countryside digitally whizzing past. But the Disney people have really stepped up that idea with a new immersive restaurant that puts …
Unilumin’s USA Wing Brings On Former D3 Exec Barak As VP Strategic Markets September 24, 2021 by Dave Haynes The big Chinese LED companies that do a huge amount of work in their domestic markets aren’t always all that good on the sales and marketing side in North America, so it’s interesting to see Unilumin USA hiring on industry vet Jason Barak as its new VP of Strategic Markets. Barak has 25 years in …
