Digital Facade Greets Deep-Pocketed Travelers At Louis Vuitton Store In Rome’s Airport August 21, 2020 by Dave Haynes The luxury goods brand Louis Vuitton opened a new store at Rome’s international airport back in late February, just as the pandemic really started to take hold in Europe. So with airports almost empty for months on end, not that many people have likely seen the giant LED facade that welcomes shoppers to the store …
Subtle Animations Appear From The Wood Lobby Wall At NYC Cancer Care Center August 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes One of the most powerful effects in digital signage jobs is to add the visuals in unexpected places and ways. This is a lobby at the new David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Designed by the NYC agency C&G Partners, the lobby’s welcome wall is …
Rare Sighting: A Gesture-Driven Interactive Display With A Point! August 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes I am not much of a fan of body and gesture-tracking applications that ask people to get in front of a screen and wave their arms and have that mimicked on the screen those people are viewing. It tends to be eye-candy that has little evident impact or point. But via Linkedin I stumbled across …
New WarnerMedia HQ In NYC Digitally Brands 27 Floors Of Workplace August 5, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a very impressive set of branded experiences that have been lit up in the new corporate head offices for WarnerMedia. The media company took on 27 floors of space at 30 Hudson Yards in New York, a relatively new development area on the west side of midtown Manhattan. The offices bring together numerous …
Biggest Indoor LED Mesh Ceiling In N.A. Switches On … In Maine Furniture Store July 24, 2020 by Dave Haynes The biggest indoor mesh LED ceiling in North America – unless you want to describe the Fremont Experience in Vegas that way – has been switched on in an unlikely location – a new furniture store at a mall in Portland, Maine. The Jordan’s Furniture chain opened its first store in Maine last week at …
10 Soaring LED Sculptures Greet Passengers Arriving At Dubai’s Int’l Airport July 21, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a very impressive temporary LED installation in the International Arrivals Hall of Dubai’s vast airport – the busiest on the planet. There are 10 vertical LED sculptures wrapped around support columns that line a main walkway. Instead of those flexible, rounded LED modules, or thin strips, the install uses a set of 10m-tall …
29 Billion Pixels Of Virtual Water Falls In This Aquarium’s Lobby July 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes The folks at the creative shop Fusion CI are particularly known for computer-generated visual effects that feature water, and this is a great example of their technical chops. The St. Louis Aquarium in that Missouri city has a big LED feature in its Grand Lobby that arcs down to a giant clock face. Working with …
New Vegas Casino Resort Previews Giant 100,000 Sq. Ft. LED Facade July 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip – AV Interactive A new casino resort going up on the Las Vegas strip, and set to open in summer 2021, previewed this past weekend the massive LED screen that is effectively one whole facade of the hotel complex. Resorts World Las Vegas switched on its 100,000-square-foot direct view LED screen on its …
Property Developer Mashes Up Projection Mapping, Real-Time Data For Impressive Sales Center July 7, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a very impressive marketing center for a multi-building real estate development in Tampa, Florida – using a variety of technologies and real-time data to help sell commercial space. It mashes up 3D printing, projection mapping, a pile of real-time data sets and flat panel displays in one big, dedicated room owned and hosted …
Much-Needed Upgrade To LaGuardia Includes Plenty Of Dynamic, Data-Driven Screens June 15, 2020 by Dave Haynes Business travelers familiar with the hellscape that was the old LaGuardia airport in New York won’t recognize it if/when they start getting back on airplanes for things other than family emergencies. The cramped, dilapidated and just generally awful old terminal B that served Air Canada (my reference point) and some other airlines has been overhauled, …