Sixteen:Nine’s Best Of 2017 December 21, 2017 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
3D-Printed Skyscraper Miniatures Drive Slick Interactive Touch-Table November 28, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is a slick interactive application that uses 3D printed miniatures of landmark buildings in Singapore to explain the building technologies behind them, by placing the miniatures on a touchscreen that has built-in optical marker recognition capability. The project is for the Building and Construction Authority of Singapore. Make Studios created a 3D printed skyline …
16:9 Projects Podcast: The Story Behind That 13K LED Wall In Netflix’s HQ Lobby November 24, 2017 by Danica Trapara Imagine, while sitting in the lobby waiting for your next meeting, three walls around you change, placing you in a cocaine manufacturing camp in the jungles of Colombia. Minutes later, they change again to drop you into a prison cafeteria in upper New York state. When Netflix was designing the lobby of their new Hollywood …
Video Walls Can Be Amazing Even With Very Low Rez LEDs: Exhibit A November 23, 2017 by Dave Haynes The lion’s share of the buzz these days with LED displays is with the increasingly fine pitch modules that provide HD visuals even on outdoor jobs. But there’s a lot to be said for clever work that uses low-rez, anything but fine pitch, LED products to create a great visual experience. This is the College Football …
Big Curving LED Welcomes Visitors To Stanford’s New House Of Champions November 21, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is the new Home of Champions hall of fame-ish center at Stanford University – an old basketball gymnasium in the athletic department’s building on campus that is now a central showcase for the school’s sports teams and individual athletes. Opened to the public in September 2017, the museum now houses over 40 displays celebrating the …
