Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Sakchin Bessette On How Moment Factory Grew Into One Of World’s Top Multimedia Agencies January 17, 2018 by Super User Fantastic creative is at the heart of any great digital signage project, and when I am asked to rattle off the names of creative shops capable of doing top-level work, Moment Factory is automatically in there. The Montreal-based creative technology group has evolved from a small collective doing VJing and just, basically, have a …
Twin Experiential LED Video Walls Light Up Lobby Of Chicago’s Aon Center January 4, 2018 by Super User The Aon Center, one of Chicago’s tallest and most recognizable buildings, has followed the lead of some other major commercial office properties in turning a feature in the lobby to a giant LED digital wall. Part of a recent renovation of its lobby and atrium included a pair of 42-foot-wide by 10-foot-tall direct view LED …
Canada’s National Arts Centre Switches On North America’s Largest Transparent LED Wall January 1, 2018 by Super User Last night, on a very frigid New Year’s Eve, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Canada officially switched on a three-storey signature LED display called the Kipnes Lantern. It is the largest transparent LED screen in North America and fills the windows of the newly rejuvenated building in the capital city. It is using Vancouver-based …
Twin LED Walls Light Up 55 Water Lobby In Wall Street December 26, 2017 by Super User This is a nice pair of 20 by 8 foot fine pitch LED screens that have been lit up in the lobby of 55 Water Street, in the Wall Street district of Lower Manhattan. The total resolution on the screens is 6,400 by 1,260 pixels, which I assume means each of them is 3,200 by …
Sixteen:Nine’s Best Of 2017 December 21, 2017 by Super User I’m working with a UK company on formal awards – and at some point I might actually have time to review the entries (there are numerous judges) – but I have my own thoughts on what impressed me in the past year. Going down the list, which is not in any order, most of these …
16:9 Projects Podcast: 127 Feet Of Amazing Experiential LED At Chicago’s 150 N. Riverside December 15, 2017 by Danica Trapara Chicago’s 150 Media Stream is a 127-foot long and 19-foot high permanent installation in the lobby of the new 150 North Riverside office building. It is comprised of 89 individual vertical LED displays or ‘blades’ creating a canvas of over 3,000 square feet. The content is driven by an ‘intelligent content library’ that constantly changes …
Giant LED Arch In Oslo Airport Pharmacy Puts Travelers In Holiday Mood December 8, 2017 by Super User This is the Oslo International Airport flagship store of the pharmacy chain Apotek 1, which is part of a big pharmaceutical trader in Europe. It’s probably the first time I’ve seen direct view LED used in a big way at a drug store – in this case a nine metres wide by three tall 3.9mm …
Hospital Deep In Hot, Bone-Dry Mojave Desert Gets Waterfall Feature, Via LEDs December 7, 2017 by Super User A U.S. Army Medical Command facility built a waterfall in the Mojave Desert to create a soothing feature in the building’s lobby – but used LED displays instead of real water. The Weed Army Community Hospital at Fort Irwin, California – located in an area that gets insanely hot through part of year – worked …
Media Studies College Makes Giant Trapezoidal LED Display Lobby Centerpiece December 6, 2017 by Super User This is the lobby of the new home for the Creative Media Industries Institute (CMII) on the campus of Georgia State University, with the focal point a 34-foot wide trapezoidal curved LED display. The downtown Atlanta building is home to the university’s digital media and film industries studies. “Our new Creative Media Industries Institute building …
A Queue Management Digital Signage Solution … For Washrooms December 5, 2017 by Super User Spotted by a reader on Reddit … Somewhere in South Korea, there’s a bathroom that has mashed up IoT sensors and digital signage to create what amounts to a queue management system and dashboard for washrooms. This smart toilet information system, set up in a men’s washroom, shows in a graphical display how many toilet …
