Westfield Stratford City In London Upgrades Giant “Four Dials” LED Display On Facade June 12, 2020 by Dave Haynes The big Westfield Stratford City shopping mall on the east side of London, around where the 2012 Olympics were staged, has been around long enough now that it is refreshing some of its digital. This is a 10mm Daktronics display applied as a gentle curve on a facade of the mall. It replaces an earlier …
South Beach Condo Complex Adds 29-Foot LED Wall … To Parking Garage Lobby May 26, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a 29 foot wide by 7 foot high direct view LED video wall in the waiting area of a parking garage of a luxury condo complex in the South Beach section of Miami Beach. Yeah, the area where you wait for an Uber, Lyft or taxi. The video wall is one component of …
Projection-Mapping Transform Historic LA Park For Live Event May 1, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a live event using projection mapping, but the techniques and technologies used could certainly apply to more permanent digital signage installations. Projection Designer Hana Kim uses Panasonic laser projectors and projection mapping technology to create visuals for SWEET LAND, an outdoor opera set inside Los Angeles State Historic Park. The production blended the …
Tech Firm Okta Adds Big, “Bold” LED Wall To SF Bay HQ Lobby April 27, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a very nice, very big direct view LED wall at the downtown San Francisco headquarters of the secure cloud company Okta, Inc. The building is located on the south end of the city’s financial district, halfway between the bay and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and is across the street …
Pitching In: Live Event Pros Pivot To Battle Pandemic April 1, 2020 by Dave Haynes GUEST POST: David Johnston, AVIXA The COVID-19 pandemic has affected hundreds of markets, thousands of businesses, and millions of individuals, but perhaps no single entity has been impacted as much as live events. Corporate events, concert tours, sporting events, Broadway theaters, theme parks — all of that, and basically everything else, have been completely shut …
Smart Shelf Start-up Opens Autonomous C-Store At LA Apartment Complex March 25, 2020 by Dave Haynes A kinda sorta digital signage tech startup focused on smart retailing has opened an autonomous micro c-store in Orange County, California that uses a combination of LED ribbon “smart” shelves, payments systems and AI-based computer vision. Adroit Worldwide Media, the guys behind the AWM Smart Shelf you may have seen at shows like NRF, has …
Spanish Media Company Uses Projection For Its Large-Scale DOOH Ad Positions March 12, 2020 by Dave Haynes If you have been involved in the digital signage and digital OOH sector for a while, you have seen the steady evolution of big printed spectacular ads on the sides of buildings to digital versions. We all think of the digital piece being LED, but here’s a case where the the operators instead went with …
Shanghai’s Pudong Airport Adds Massive LED Board In Departures Hall March 11, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a massive 178 sq. meter ad board at Shanghai Pudong International Airport, installed last year but just being touted now by LED manufacturer AOTO. The board is sold and presumably run by DOOH media giant JCDecaux . It uses 300 AOTO E3i LED cabinets and results in a resolution that equates to 11K. …
Finalists Announced For DSF’s 2020 Apex Awards At DSE March 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes Digital Signage Expo and the Digital Signage Federation have announced the 37 finalists for the 16th annual APEX Awards, which celebrate projects and creative done in the sector, globally, in the past year. The finalists were chosen by an independent panel of 11 industry experts and journalists from a pool of 115 entrants, from 19 …
Virtual Dining Car Used To Entertain, Stimulate At UK Seniors’ Residence March 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a great little project for a seniors’ care home in Bradford, England, up in West Yorkshire. To entertain and mentally stimulate mostly shut-in seniors, the care home designed and built a faux dining car on a train, with digital displays used as “windows” that show the passing countryside. The Gateway Care Home spent …
