From The Archive: Michael Schneider On Experiential Digital Design September 12, 2018 by Dave Haynes No new podcast this week … sorry. I had two postponed interviews last week, combined with a short work week and then me spending two of those four days in a succession of airplanes getting to and from a client. I’m kinda remote now, and so are they. I have two chats scheduled for Thursday, …
Six Fine-Pitch LED Columns Welcome Visitors To Louis Vuitton Foundation September 11, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is the atrium of the Louis Vuitton Foundation building in Paris – a one-of-a-kind business and cultural center that is also an art museum and the global headquarters of LVMH, the parent company of Louis Vuitton. There are six fine-pitch LED columns welcoming guests and displaying artworks from the museum’s collection, as well as LV branded themes. …
Transparent LEDs And Interactive Walls At Nissan’s Amazing Ginza Experience Center September 6, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is really something – the Nissan Crossing experience center in Tokyo’s famed Ginza shopping district. The center has mostly been around since 1963, but was brought back and fully re-energized a couple of years ago, using a lot of technology. The feature car turntable at the base has LED strips on the circular glass …
Screens Help Tell Sporting World’s Post-9/11 Response In New Exhibit August 29, 2018 by Dave Haynes Digital plays a modest but important role in a new exhibit at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, with Comeback Season: Sports After 9/11 recalling the sporting world’s response after the 9/11 attacks. The exhibit, says a press release, highlights the vital role professional sports played in national mourning as fans rallied …
Coke’s Ballyhooed Shape-Shifting LED Board In Time Square Is Now Very Much 2D August 28, 2018 by Dave Haynes We will probably never get a public story about the three-dimensional, robotic direct view LED display that Coke spent an unknown PILE of money on for Times Square. If you were a contractor and influenced the decision to do that, you’re keeping quiet and saving face. If it is your tech, you are definitely not …
New NYC Pier 17 Destination’s Atrium Enveloped In Direct-View LED August 28, 2018 by Dave Haynes The same company that put together the sync’d LED messaging and ad displays at NYC’s busy Fulton Center has done a similar job at the new Pier 17 at the Seaport District in Lower Manhattan. The technology service provider ANC has installed and now manages a new digital media network that includes more than 2,000 square …
Huge LED Wall Fills Window At Polo Ralph Lauren US Open Tennis Store August 27, 2018 by Dave Haynes The US Open starts today in greater New York City, and what’s also opened is a tennis-focused Polo Ralph Lauren store on the grounds of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Integrator Media Services Worldwide has installed a two-storey high direct view LED in the main window of the store. This would be …
New Projection-Mapping Show Transforms Historic NYC Building To Virtual Ocean Liner August 24, 2018 by Dave Haynes A new projection-mapping attraction launches today in New York, a multimedia experience called Dream Ship DestiNY that makes visitors feel like they’ve found their way on to a classic ocean liner, travelling to Manhattan. The 360 degree projection mapping job was developed and delivered by Montreal’s Moment Factory, and runs starting today at the Cunard Building …
Giant Vertical LED Wall Greets Visitors To Northwestern U’s New Athletic Center August 22, 2018 by Dave Haynes The lobby of the newly opened Walter Athletics Center at Northwestern University in Chicago has a giant vertical LED wall, as well as what looks like large tiled (and possibly interactive) flat-panel display walls to the sides. The facility, which opened August 1st, sits on the shores of Lake Michigan at the school’s Evanston …
Toronto Buses Getting Pairs Of Information Screens That, Surprisingly, Aren’t For Ads August 22, 2018 by Dave Haynes Via DailyHive and BlogTO Toronto’s Transit Commission (more commonly known as the TTC) is putting in pairs of 29-inch ceiling mounted screens in 525 buses over the next two years, and somewhat surprisingly, they’re being used properly as passenger information displays and not for “captive” advertising. TTC spokesperson Stuart Green told Daily Hive each of …
