That Giant LED Statue Concept Finally Finds A First Home January 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Irish company that’s been touting, for a few years now, the idea of giant LED-driven humanoids that show images of famous people has finally found a first home – in a US shopping mall that is all about the bling. A couple of news outlets – including AV Interactive – are reporting that Dublin …
LED Mainstreamed: Chicago Cocktail Lounge Uses Fine Pitch Video Wall To Drive Experience January 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes New and different evidence of how LED is mainstreaming as a display and experiential option – a cocktail lounge in Chicago with a fine pitch LED video wall. It is for a bar called Valedor and involves four 55-inch LED cabinets tiled together – four wide and two high – to create the video wall, …
Apparel Retailer Uses Big LED Header As Product-Explainer In LA Flagship January 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes Big screens in fashion retail is nothing new, but I like how the body-positivity retailer Good American has worked a big LED header into the overall store design for a flagship store at the Westfield Century City Mall in LA. The store – opened last summer – has a custom 31.5-feet-wide LED ribbon that runs …
MSG Abandons Plans To Replicate The Vegas Sphere In London January 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes It appears any aspirations to replicate the Las Vegas Sphere in London, UK have been abandoned – with news that Madison Square Garden (MSG), the parent company of Sphere Entertainment, has withdrawn its planning application. The company has complained that the project had become a political football, and it was evidently not enjoying being kicked …
Add How Buildings Can Move To Your List of Planning Considerations For Big LED Displays January 9, 2024 by Mikell Senger GUEST POST: MIKELL SENGER, SNA DISPLAYS Both in terms of scale and beauty, the construction world continues to produce more and more amazing structures. As a mechanical engineer and senior project manager for SNA Displays, I’m very fortunate to be a part of projects with complex construction elements, and I’m constantly marveling at the work-product …
Ladies And Gentleman, Elvis Is Coming Back To The Building … Virtually, In London Later This Year January 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes Via AV Interactive … Ladies and Gentleman, Elvis may have left the building and planet, but he’s coming back … sorta. Hat Tip to AV Interactive for reporting that Elvis Presley is being virtually raised from the dead to perform as a hologram-ish projected entity at a new immersive attraction targeted to open later this …
Hologram-ish Santa Offers Gift Ideas To Holiday Travelers At A Toronto Airport January 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes I’ve not seen a lot of real-world retail uses for those big transparent LCD shower stall-like displays marketed as holograms, but here’s an interesting pop-up example of one used during the Christmas season in the T3 terminal of Toronto’s main airport. Retail operator Paradies Lagardère – which has a big footprint in airports, hotels and …
Double-Curved LED Store Facade, Winding LED Ribbons Light Up Duty-Free At Abu Dhabi’s Expanded Airport January 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is a nice project involving the duty-free operator at Abu Dhabi’s main airport – with the main highlights a clever “double-curved” digital facade and big curving LED ribbon inside the store. The entry to the store has a half-circle tight-pitch LED that is curved both vertically and horizontally – like part of a sphere, …
McDonald’s In Barcelona Adapts Queue Management-Style Window Screens To Enforce Order For Scooter Delivery Pickups January 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes I was intrigued two or three years ago to learn about a QSR operation – I forget which one – that was using digital signage displays in the back-0f-house food prep area to let staff know the anticipated arrival time of delivery vehicles that were tied to GPS and apps, notably Uber Eats. Now that …
Digital Signage-Driven Sook Pop-Up Stores Cease Operations January 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes Well this makes me sad … the UK start-up that was using digital signage technology as the core visual marketing feature of a set of short-term rental pop-up stores has ceased operations. The company, called Sook, had what I thought was the clever idea of establishing small, ready-to-use retail stores on UK high streets that …
