LEDs Create Faux Stained Glass Ceiling In Luxe Mexican Department Store February 21, 2018 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Sakchin Bessette On How Moment Factory Grew Into One Of World’s Top Multimedia Agencies January 17, 2018 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
