Oslo’s Main Rail Station Adds 31 Sq. Meter Curved LED March 15, 2018 by Super User I like the curve on this new JCDecaux indoor LED at Oslo’s central train station. It is 31 square meters of LED, and you can see there are nearby screens that sync the same content. The specs page for the install – which is in front of about 1 million commuters and travellers weekly – …
Projects: Bank Of Hawaii’s Main Branch Uses 33 Feet Of 3MM LED In Refreshed Lobby March 13, 2018 by Super User This is a good example of what I call the new lobby water fountain – a tight pitch LED video wall that’s the visual centerpiece of a big bank renovation. In the old days, big companies and office property developers put in water features in the lobbies and common areas. Now they’re putting in LED …
Video: BMO’s 200 Years Marked On Interactive Timeline Video Wall In Toronto March 13, 2018 by Super User This is a nice interactive wall Cineplex Digital Media put together for BMO Financial Group (Bank of Montreal) to celebrate that company’s 200th anniversary. The timeline-based wall was installed in the underground walkway system that links much of downtown Toronto – in this case on a stretch below the company’s head office. The video strongly …
Projects: Interactive At Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian March 1, 2018 by Super User This is a new exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., which has a series of touchscreens that connect visitors to the stories behind the images and objects on display, as well a web-based mobile experience. It’s all about the use of American Indian imagery and iconography as part …
LEDs Create Faux Stained Glass Ceiling In Luxe Mexican Department Store February 21, 2018 by Super User The centerpiece of a $300 million reno job at the largest department store in Latin America – Al Palacio de los Palacios in Mexico City – is a full ceiling LED display. It’s meant as a budget-friendly and totally changeable alternative to a more traditional stained glass ceiling. “Al Palacio de los Palacios is arguably the …
16:9 Projects Podcast: True Customer Experience At Toronto’s Air Jordan Store February 9, 2018 by Super User The new Air Jordan store, opened in downtown Toronto in 2017, is a three-story retail environment created with the notion of providing a true customer experience. It features an underground kids-only concourse, an industrial-designed retail level, and an upper athletic training facility. While digital signage is limited to just two areas on the top floor, …
Hong Kong Firm Behind Clusterf*ck Kinetic LED Sign In Times Square Touting Job At DSE Stand January 24, 2018 by Super User A couple of industry friends registered for DSE are on email lists for the show that included this one pushed out by Radius Displays, one of the companies behind the highly-ambitious, terribly ill-considered robotic Coca-Cola LED display in Times Square. The launch videos and photos of that kinetic LED sign for Coca-Cola in Times Square …
Toronto Rail Hub’s ATM Gets Virtual Nature Scene Surround With Fine Pitch LED January 23, 2018 by Super User I’ll be out next week with a report on fine pixel pitch LED, with the key assertion that this tech will grow very, very common in parts of the world other than China and Hong Kong, where it is already everywhere. Here’s a good precursor to what’s coming – a fine pitch surround on an …
What??? – That Gloriously Stupid Subway Messaging Fixture In Toronto Actually Cost $2 Million January 19, 2018 by Super User I wrote recently about the mind-wobblingly stupid art installation installed but not activated at a new Toronto subway stop. The set-up would allow anyone to walk up to a kiosk and put up a brief eight-character message on a set of suspended lights. Naughty and nasty messages would, of course, ensue. The installation at the city’s …
Chicago Office Block’s New LED Display Motion-Paints Impressionist Scenes January 19, 2018 by Super User One of my favorite big screen creative shops, New York’s ESI Design, has started talking about another stunning piece of work – a 23-foot-tall fine pitch LED feature display in the lobby of a Chicago office block that “paints” videos of familiar local scenes in an Impressionist style. You get visuals that transform from flowing …
