Gucci Uses LED Over Full Facade of Bangkok Airport Store October 23, 2023 by Super User It took some digging but I eventually sorted out that this is a Gucci store opened last year at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport, with LED displays effectively being the wall finishings for the full exterior of the store inside the terminal. I’ve seen a few stores – usually in airports – using LED as part or …
Shape-Shifting Data Vizualization Illuminates Entire Side Of World’s Tallest Skyscraper October 23, 2023 by Super User This would have to be the largest LED surface to date used as a digital canvas for public art – one whole side of the world’s tallest building. The Burj Khalifa – not sure when, as details are minimal – but it appears to be a recent thing. The skyscraper is clad at least on …
100+ Square, Framed LCDs Celebrate Hamburger U Trainees At McDonald’s Global HQ October 20, 2023 by Super User There’s a lot of good stuff going on with the experiential design and execution for the relocated downtown Chicago headquarters building of QSR giant McDonald’s. The company was in suburban Chicago for decades, but shifted its global headquarters to the Chicago West Loop, in a historic-looking building designed by Gensler. The HQ opened in 2018, …
New Kennedy Space Center Experience Greets Visitors With Giant 30 by 98 Foot Ground-Level LED Board October 20, 2023 by Super User A big new outdoor LED display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in central Florida is notable for at least a couple if reasons – its sheer scale but also a physical set-up that seemingly bakes in 3D visual illusions as the default creative approach. The great majority of these anamorphic illusions are designed …
NC State’s Flashy Library Refreshes Video Walls With Sony CLEDs October 19, 2023 by Super User North Carolina State was a pretty early adopter of big video walls, putting them in when its James B. Hunt Jr. Library first went up about 10 years ago. That tech – including a big Christie MicroTiles wall (those little rear-projection blocks) – was agin out, and the university has started to replace them with …
Belgian Firm Uses Big LED To Help Customers Build And Visualize Their Dream Bathrooms October 17, 2023 by Super User We’ve seen display technology used to help consumers do everything from configure their ideal cars in digital showrooms to accessorizing outfits on interactive screens in fashion retail dressing rooms, but I don’t think I’ve seen a set-up built with the intent of helping homeowners come up with a visualize their dream bathrooms. The Belgian firm …
Chilean Bakery Uses Digital Split-Flap Displays For Full Five-Screen Menu Board October 16, 2023 by Super User Most of the flip-disc and split-flap installations I’ve seen – old-school mechanical or digital – have tended to be single screens that are used more for the visual novelty than as a functional communications tool – which was the main use for the original spinning and chattering status board displays at airports and rail stations. …
Newark’s New-ish Terminal Borrows LED Surprise From Comcast Tower October 12, 2023 by Super User One of the brilliant aspects, going back some 15 years, of the Comcast Tower LED lobby experience in Philly was and is how the big video wall takes on the appearance of the lobby’s non-digital wall finish – and then stuff starts appearing. Newark and Philly are pretty close in proximity, so the Comcast lobby …
NYC Walkabout : The Tiffany Virtual Windows Are Lovely, But Reflection Is An Issue October 12, 2023 by Super User The front end of this week was spent in New York, moderating a DSF panel and also doing a few things like catching some of the DPAA conference and getting a peek inside a very ambitious new tech-focused attraction that hopes to open next month (more on that once it’s OK to mention). I also …
US Grocer Hy-Vee To Use Samsung’s VXT And Retail Ads Solution Across 10,000+ Screens October 12, 2023 by Super User Samsung has announced a big commercial win for its increasingly integrated digital signage solution, providing smart displays, CMS software AND in-store ad sales and placement for a roll-out of more than 10,000 screens in the US grocer chain Hy-Vee. Hy-Vee will use VXT CMS to manage a network of screens installed in aisles, deli, meat …
