Uniqlo Uses LED Cubes As Animated Brand Identifiers On Store Facade April 5, 2021 by Super User Large-scale and big budget direct view LED projects tend to get most of the trade press and overall industry attention, but sometimes there are modest projects that are worth calling out – like this one for the Japanese apparel chain Uniqlo. I’m not sure where this is, but Uniqlo has a simple set of 2.5mm …
Huge 1,200 Sq. Meter LED Canopy Looms Over Chinese Shopping Mall April 1, 2021 by Super User This is a 1,200 sq. meter LED canopy ceiling looming over the common area of Joy City, a large shopping mall in Xi’an, in central China. The 5mm pixel pitch LianTronics display is touted as doing glasses-free 3D visuals that serve as something of an attraction for the shopping center. I think this has more …
Airport Retailer Starts Wrapping Multi-Brand Vending Machine Banks With DV LED Ribbons April 1, 2021 by Super User If you cast your mind back a year and plus, you may have vague memories of these places called airports, and venues and things in them where you bought stuff, like Gravol or $6 bottles of water. A company that somewhat specializes in airport retailing – Hudson – has started to fit out non-staffed locations …
Collecting Luggage At Melbourne’s T2 Puts Travelers In Front Of 85M LED Ribbon April 1, 2021 by Super User This is the baggage carousel area at the Terminal 2 of Melbourne Airport in Australia – an 85 meter wraparound LED ribbon that greets arriving travelers with digital artwork. The set-up, which went in about three years ago (just learning about it now, though), uses SiliconCore’s Daffodil 2.5mm pitch LED panels, with a total display …
107-Foot High LED Tower Fills Atrium In Guangzhou Shopping Mall March 31, 2021 by Super User This is a 107 foot tall, 40 foot wide direct view LED display suspended in the atrium of an upscale urban shopping mall in Guangzhou, China. The 4,328 square foot display featuring the giant, pouty Versace model covers up the elevator tower, and includes wraparound corners. The DV LED cabinets are from Yaham. No details …
Here’s A Modest But Good Example Of How DV LED Offers Up Design, Install Flexibility March 29, 2021 by Super User One of the key arguments made for using direct view LED is its modularity – the ability to build a video wall that meets shapes that aren’t just 16:9 rectangles. Here’s a modest little DV LED video display done by integrator AVI SPL for Advent Health, that shows what can be done with LED, that …
Real Estate Developer Uses Anamorphic Illusions On Indoor Corporate LED Video Wall March 29, 2021 by Super User New anamorphic 3D visuals on big LED boards located in public plazas in Asia seem to be popping up more and more on feeds like Linkedin. Like this one with a Star Trek craft flying out of a building corner. Here’s a very different take – a corporate office in Vancouver, BC that is using …
Irish Firm Planning Giant LED-Driven Selfie Statues In 21 Cities Around Globe March 26, 2021 by Super User Via Invidis An Irish company, based in Dublin, is pitching to put 21 giant LED-driven statues in 21 cities around the world, by the end of 2021. The statues have addressable LED units and support some basic movement, making it possible for the things to feature famous people, but also capture, map and then display …
Those Spinning LED Wand Thingies Find An Application – Public Art March 26, 2021 by Super User The madly spinning LED wands that started showing up at AV trade shows maybe four years ago have always been good at attracting crowds at booths, but I’ve not seen or read much that suggests broad adoption in the real world. I think the things are eye candy that stops being visually interesting pretty quickly, …
See The Difference Between Coated And “Naked” DV LED Modules March 26, 2021 by Super User I’ve written a few times about the hardened, engineered coatings that some direct view LED manufacturers are using on their modules to better protect against damage. It’s been a little hard to explain and even harder to show in trade show photos I’ve grabbed, but this close-up comparison image does a good job. This is …
