White Castle’s New HQ Has Vast Interactive Wall, Projection-Mapped Throne December 30, 2019 by Dave Haynes The longtime burger chain White Castle has moved into new HQ digs in Columbus, Ohio that factored in a lot of tech to set the company tone and also tells its story. The building has a pile of traditional AV and collaboration systems, but in the public areas like the lobby, Detroit-based solutions firm Bluewater …
Florida Grocer Opens Seed To Table Concept Store With 100+ Screens December 30, 2019 by Dave Haynes A new grocery in Naples, Florida – heavily focused on locally grown and sourced product – has more than 100 screens deployed around the floorplate. Arguably the most visually compelling component – from what I can see in videos and still images – is one set of stocked shelves that has 32 feet of LCD …
World’s Tallest Building Hosts Massive Car Rally Ad, For Dakar Rally December 30, 2019 by Dave Haynes The Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai has long been used as a visual surface for lasers, fireworks and most recently, programmable LED lighting. The 828 meter building – the world’s tallest building – has 163 floors and is clad from top to bottom in LED lighting that’s used for scheduled shows and for booked media …
Tax Prep Giant Adds Big LED Branding Ribbon To HQ Lobby December 30, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is the HQ lobby of Kansas City-based tax prep giant H&R Block, which now has a nice horizontal LED ribbon behind the reception/security desk. The wall was put in by AV integrator SKC Communications, using PrimeView displays. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Default. To access the actual content, click the button …
Seoul’s Vast Subway System Adds 4,200+ Samsung Screens December 23, 2019 by Dave Haynes The Seoul metro subway system – which is vast and bewildering (trust me) – has upgraded its passenger experience across some 90 stations, adding more than 4,200 Samsung screens across the network. The screens replace analogue posters and maps with interactive way-finding, timetables and information for the districts surrounding the stations. They provide nice tools …
Raptors, Leafs Using Hyper-Granular Real-Time Sports Data On Screens Around Home Venue December 19, 2019 by Dave Haynes Big sports venues often have screens showing the live TV feed from the rink, court, field or whatever on the public concourses and in places like corporate suites, so that fans can keep half an eye on the action while getting food or mingling, but the screens at the home of Toronto’s Raptors and Maple …
Huge Irregular-Shaped LED Wall Plays With Physical Layout Of Intersport Flagship Store December 19, 2019 by Dave Haynes It’s been impressive to see how many retailers are putting LED in as signature visuals in flagship stores, but just about every one of them has been a wall-filling landscape or portrait rectangle. So it’s nice to see this project for athletic retailer Intersport store in Graz, Austria, which has an irregular, skewed shape that …
Wells Fargo’s New Hudson Yards Offices Uses Huge LED Wall As Peaceful Distraction December 19, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is a massive LED video wall installed in a lounge and stairwell area in Wells Fargo’s new Hudson Yards offices in New York. It’s a 29-foot tall, 6-foot wide Leyard 1.5mm LED array, running on an Analog Way Analog Way Picturall Pro media server. Interestingly, this is a video installation installed not for Wow …
Montreal’s Integrated Health Systems Does Waiting Room Signage Reset December 18, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is one of the screens running for the City of Montreal’s Integrated University Health and Social Services – four care organizations spread out across 43 locations. The digital signage network was described as ailing, and Montreal solutions firm VIF Tele won a bid to revamp and reimagine it, working with Philips for displays. The …
NYC Office Tower Uses Poems, Prose For Unique LED Ticker In Lobby December 17, 2019 by Dave Haynes I was staying down by the World Trade Center in New York last week, and in my efforts to find a specific subway station, I kinda stumbled across 7 World Trade Center – an office tower destroyed and then rebuilt after 9/11. The building’s glass lobby has a giant LED installation by artist Jenny Holzer, which …
