Info Screen In Way Of Subway Station Renos, So Construction Crew Just Builds Around (Most Of) It October 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes There will hopefully be some logic to this, but here’s a screwball workaround to dealing with passenger information displays while a subway station is undergoing renovations. Instead of taking a ceiling-mounted display down, the framing crew just built around the screen, so that just a portion of it is now visible to riders. This is …
The Biggest Indoor DOOH Billboard In Europe Derailed At London Station, Just A Year After Lighting Up October 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes Europe’s largest indoor digital billboard has been switched off less than a year after being installed, but not for technical or energy conservation reasons. The government-owned company that manages the UK’s train network and stations has ordered the big ad display shut off because of larger problems, like overcrowding, at London’s Euston Station. Network Rail …
Near-Transparent LED Panels Create Faux Water Feature At Guilin, China Exhibition Hall October 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes The flowery descriptions and misuse of holographic and invisible are a bit much, but this installation using super-thin mesh-like display panels made by the Chinese company Muxwave is nonetheless interesting. There was a point when big video walls started replacing things like high-maintenance water features in the lobbies of commercial buildings, and now we have …
Super-Clever LED Fins Make Store’s Media Facade On Narrow High Street Visible To People Approaching On Foot October 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is a fantastically well-conceived, engineered and executed digital media facade on the front of a perfume company’s flagship store and HQ in Andorra. A set of vertical LED fins enable views from people walking toward the building, even though the pedestrian-only high street is very narrow. Barcelona-based creative technology studio Instronic did the job …
Giant 62-Foot Tall W Made From LED Greets Visitors To WWE’s New HQ October 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes The ability to create shapes that aren’t just flat rectangles has always been a big selling advantage of LED displays, and that advantage really gets pushed here with a truly giant 62-foot high letter W made from custom LED cabinets in the new Stamford, CT headquarters of World Wrestling Entertainment. The fully custom display is …
Mexican Sam’s Clubs Using Floor Projections To Promote Brands October 1, 2024 by Dave Haynes Cavernous retail warehouse stores like Costco and Sam’s Club don’t tend to have the best sightlines for using big digital displays because of the concrete floor to metal ceiling shelving units that sit above eye-level shelves, so one workaround is using projectors to put media on the floor. That’s what Walmart-owned Sam’s Club is doing …
KC’s New Airport Terminal Latest To Adopt LED Displays To Guide Passenger Journeys September 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes It’s pretty clear that big video walls for meat and potatoes passenger messaging are becoming part of the standard build for new or renovated airport terminals, with the new 39-gate Kansas City International Airport terminal the latest example. A $1.5 billion project includes screens for guiding passengers at curbside drop-off and then inside at check-in …
Dubai Maybe Getting Its Own Version Of An Immersive Sphere, But It’s A Big Maybe September 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes The CEO and President of MGM Resorts has floated the idea of a big immersive sphere attraction going up in Dubai, but there are several differences to the Sphere switched on last year in Las Vegas. First, it would have seating for 300 people, while Sphere in Las Vegas can hold 18,000-plus. Second, it would …
Ambitious New Pop-Up Store On London’s Oxford Street Borrows On Nearby Outernet London’s Visual Scale September 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes Something that might be described as a pop-up retail version of the immersive, LED-driven Outernet London attraction is opening soon just a couple of blocks away, on the UK capital’s busiest high street. Future Stores will fill the Oxford Street-facing ground floor of a commercial block, using big entryways and curtain wall glass to give …
LED Curtain Creates Ambient Three-Dimensional Low-Rez Visuals In Paris Concert Hall Lobby September 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes A three-dimensional display has to have some dimension and volume to be more than marketing 3D – though lots of 2D products trick the eye with transparency and clever creative. Here’s a very low-rez 3D display related to the beauty products brand CLARINS, a 360° art installation in the lobby of the Salle Pleyel concert …
