This Crazy LED Chandelier Was Installed In A Chinese Lux Hotel May 22, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is in a hotel – repeat, a hotel – in Foshan, China, about 90 minutes up a freeway from Shenzhen. It is an LED chandelier thingie (technical term) made up of five 4mm pixel pitch flexible LEDs, There are also 12 suspended LED columns. The thing can travel up and down more than 30 feet. …
NYC’s 28 Liberty Gets Reinvigorated With Big Lobby LED Features May 21, 2019 by Dave Haynes Here’s another example of how big fine-pitch LED video walls are the 2019 version of 1980s and 90s water features in office tower lobbies. The property owners for 28 Liberty in New York wanted a visual solution that reinvigorated the space and, more to the point, made tenants want to move in and existing ones decide …
New Liverpool Seven Store Makes Digital Signage A Focal Point May 21, 2019 by Dave Haynes Some nice uses of narrow bezel Philips LCD displays in this new Seven apparel store in Liverpool, put in by the UK solutions provider Skratch. Not really sure about the big green wall with the shoe display shelves. Don’t see bezels, so I am either missing that in the pic, it’s LED ($$$!!!), or a …
New Statue Of Liberty Museum Is Filled With Screens May 21, 2019 by Dave Haynes Here’s a look at the newly-opened Statue of Liberty Museum, which is located Guess Where. The new museum is part of a $100 million Liberty Island-wide beautification effort that’s being funded by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, in collaboration with the National Park Service and the U.S. Department of the Interior. The museum …
Fitness App Tona’s Leaderboard Digital Signage Gamifies Gyms May 20, 2019 by Dave Haynes Here’s a nice example of that whole omnichannel thing actually being put to use – an all-encompassing fitness app called Tona for individuals and gyms that spans everything smartphone screens to leaderboards everyone sees. The background for Tona is a fun story – a visual designer interviewing for a Google job, asked as part of …
74-LCD Video Wall Energizes JP Morgan’s Hong Kong HQ Lobby May 17, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is a very nice, narrow-bezel LCD video wall in the lobby of J.P. Morgan’s Hong Kong offices. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Vimeo. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that doing so will share data with third-party providers. More Information Unblock content Accept required service and …
SNA Wins That Massive Times Square LED Video Wall Job That Includes Embedded Stage May 17, 2019 by Dave Haynes Sansi, more widely known as SNA Displays, has won the LED job for that big new Times Square video wall that includes a built-in live performance stage. A press release says real estate investment firms L&L Holding Company, Fortress Investment Group and Maefield Development, alongside consultant Sensory Interactive, chose SNA to manufacture and install the …
Sneak Peek: Big 4mm LED Wall Ready To Go In Charlotte Office Tower Lobby May 17, 2019 by Dave Haynes This a 4mm pitch LED wall – a Nanolumens one – going in at the Charlotte head office of the real estate services firm Lincoln Harris.
Dan Hagen Of 10Net, On Building Digital Signage In The Pacific Northwest May 15, 2019 by Dave Haynes Dan Hagen is a relatively young guy, and a bit of an Energizer Bunny. I know of him as the 10net guy from Vancouver, but I was surprised to learn in a conversation that he has been involved in digital signage since before it was called digital signage. He was a funding founder of Mercury …
Seattle DSF Mixer Gets The Understory On Amazon’s Spheres May 9, 2019 by Dave Haynes It took going to Seattle to remember and realize a few things about the city and region. First, there are some really big, impactful companies out here – like Amazon, Microsoft, Costco, Boeing and a little coffee chain called Starbucks. Second, there’s more of a signage ecosystem than is maybe obvious. I am in Seattle …
