1,312 Dining Positions Projection-Mapped For Amway Celebration Dinner October 29, 2019 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip AV Magazine The multi-level marketing company Amway celebrated 60 years in business with a massive dinner for 1,300 in Las Vegas, using projection-mapping at each diner’s seating position. The private dinner at the Mandalay Bay was pulled together by event agency Wilson Dow, which contracted the projection mapping company Skullmapping, which has a background doing this …
Canada’s CBC Fills Election Night Set With Direct-view LED October 29, 2019 by Dave Haynes Canada had its federal election last week – a five week or so sprint of an election instead of the ones south of us, in the US, which seemingly never really end. One of the national broadcasters – the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation – had a one-night elections set that heavily used direct view LED to …
Houston Office Block Enlivens Lobby With 32′ by 18′ LED Wall October 28, 2019 by Dave Haynes Here’s another example of what I assume will continue to be a trend in the commercial property business to enliven the lobbies of their big buildings with large format LED displays. In this case, it is 1100 Louisiana, an office block owned by the international real estate firm Hines. Ground-floor renovations to the building included …
Another Shape-Shifting LED Screen Surfaces, This Time In Malaysia October 28, 2019 by Dave Haynes You’d think when a top five global brand has a dismal failure with its splashy, expensive and very high profile robotic LED display, that would get around to the potential user base and put the brakes on other deep-pocketed companies trying the same thing. Apparently not … This is somewhere in Malaysia – probably Kuala …
NBA’s Warriors Light Up LED-laden New Home Court Building In San Francisco October 21, 2019 by Dave Haynes Sports and entertainment venues have long been an opportune market for digital signage vendors because of the need for owner/operators to both communicate a lot of changing information, and drive the visual excitement of the event experience. They’re also opportune because venue operators are pretty steadily looking to up their technology game, particularly with newly …
Vitamin Shoppe’s New Innovation Store Includes Clever Product Look-Up Screen October 11, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is the newly-opened innovation store/store of the future for Vitamin Shoppe, which sells guess what. The store in Edgewater, NJ (pretty much across the Hudson from the Harlem district of NYC) has been updated with a new design and layout, but I mention this job because the store does a couple of things with …
Those Madly-Spinning Light Wands Find Logical Homes At Retail End-Caps October 9, 2019 by Dave Haynes I’m not much of a fan of those madly-spinning LED light wands that kinda sorta do 3D holographic images, because eye candy tends to have a short shelf life and things that spin eventually fail. But the UK company that is the market leader for the tech may have found a good logical home for …
Home To Raptors, Leafs Upgrades Its LED Screen Used For Public Viewing October 3, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is the new direct view LED board facing out to sports fans and local office workers outside the Toronto arena that’s home to both the Maple Leafs hockey team and NBA champion Raptors. The new LG-made screen at a plaza called Maple Leaf Square is 62 feet by 35 feet – 37 per cent …
Korean Tire-maker Adds Mind-Blowing LED Video Wall In HQ Lobby October 1, 2019 by Dave Haynes The content for the video wall in the Seoul R&D offices of Nexen, a Korean tire company, is freaking amazing. The lobby of the building has a 30 meter (98.5 feet) wide by 7 meter (23 feet) tall fine pitch LED media wall running a diverse range of custom creative developed by the agency d’strict. …
McKinsey Opening Test Lab Store In Mall Of America September 26, 2019 by Dave Haynes The huge management consultant firm McKinsey & Company is opening a retail test lab store tomorrow that’s designed to try out and analyze different technologies touted to transform shopping experiences. The store – called Modern Retail Collective – opens Friday at the vast Mall of America, in suburban Minneapolis. McKinsey says this differs from other …
