Low Rez LEDs Make Big Visual Impact At Revitalized Montreal Office Block November 13, 2019 by Dave Haynes I think there is pretty widespread affection for the idea of energizing a building lobby with an LED-filled feature wall, but equally widespread horror at the cost of doing that. Some of the projects that have been done to date – like the work in the lobbies of Salesforce and Netflix – are amazing visually, …
LED Fills Entire Wall At Regional Bank’s Newest Branch November 12, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is a screen grab (video in embedded tweet below) of a direct view LED video wall being tested at a branch of Amerant, a regional, Florida-based community bank. The fine-pitch LED fills the rear wall behind the customer service counters and wraps around a doorway. It is reminiscent of what has been happening in …
Drone-Based Light Show Puts Giant Atop Skyscraper November 11, 2019 by Dave Haynes Photo composite from Daily Star (UK) This is much more entertainment and spectacle than signage, but nonetheless a really interesting application of technology to form an animated display. Somewhere in China – not quite sure which big city, and there are many – a drone-based light show has a skyscraper-sized figure atop a skyscraper. This …
Harvard Biz School Adds Massive 62-Foot Fine-Pitch LED Screen To Main Auditorium November 8, 2019 by Dave Haynes The adoption rate for direct view LED seems to to be steadily increasing, at the same time as the variety of potential applications keep broadening. I’d not really considered giant fine-pitch LED displays as workable options for lecture hall backdrops, but when you’re the Harvard Business School and have many very rich graduates, all things …
390 Little Mirrored Bricks Create Kinetic Display In NYC HQ Building Lobby November 8, 2019 by Dave Haynes This isn’t really digital signage, but the tech comes from a small Brooklyn creative hardware shop that works around the edges of the industry, using a modern take on flip disc displays. Pulse is a two-story tall just fired up at the brand new global headquarters for Equinox in Hudson Yards in New York. Equinox …
Premium Moviehouse In Oslo Kitted With 100 Displays November 7, 2019 by Dave Haynes A premium cinema in Oslo, Norway has built a lot of the movie-going experience around digital displays, with LED walls and about 100 Scala-driven Philips screens around the entrance lobby, hallways and concessions. The Odeon Kino AS worked with Scala Nordic before the opening last year to get the project live. Scala players drive all …
New Cruise Ship Features 305 Foot LED Barrel Ceiling November 4, 2019 by Dave Haynes Moving to a coastal city that’s a tourist magnet means I now see giant cruise ships all summer and fall when we get down to the harbor. Some days, there are as many as five ships docked in Halifax. I am steadily amazed at how insanely big the newest ships are, and one that’s launching …
30,000 Feet Of Programmable LEDs Drive New Guitar Hotel’s Media Facade November 1, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is the LED lighting show on the newly opened Guitar Hotel at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino just outside of Miami. The 34-story destination resort has nearly 30,000 linear feet of programmable LEDs that wrap the building and conform to the unique contoured exterior. The vertical guitar strings on the building extend …
Puma Opens Screen-Filled Immersive Skill Cube In NYC Flagship Store October 30, 2019 by Dave Haynes A lot of athletic shoe flagship stores in NYC seem to build their signature customer experiences around hoops, which makes sense for many reasons, but Puma’s new flagship is focused instead on what the Brits call footy. The Skill Cube immerses visitors in a room fitted 270° floor to ceiling with narrow bezel LCD screens, supplemented …
A Quick Look At New Digital Signage In Downtown San Francisco October 29, 2019 by Dave Haynes I was in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago to see all the Samsung/PrismView LED and smart displays at the new Chase Center, but I also had a couple of free hours to have a quick look around. I’ve seen the LED displays in the lobbies of the cluster of Salesforce office towers downtown, …
