LED Mainstreamed: Restaurant At Ski Resort Puts Wraparound LED At 10,000 Feet January 19, 2023 by Super User The argument that LED display tech has been mainstreamed is pretty strong when you come across images of a pretty big, 90-degree corner screen on a restaurant atop a ski hill in Kazakhstan. This is a 6mm screen, running anamorphic illusion creative, at the Shymbulak resort, the biggest ski hill complex in central Asia. It …
Delta Air Lines Continuing Big Investment In Digital At Upgraded Hub Airports January 18, 2023 by Super User Air carrier Delta Air Lines continues to make a huge amount of capital and operating investments in digital displays at new or renovated airport terminals in the U.S. – the latest being a big upgrade at NYC’s JFK airport. Delta made big investments in airport infrastructure in 2022, with brand-new terminals at its New York-LGA …
35-Foot “Kaleidoscope” Art Tower In Dallas Built From 400+ Triangular LED Panels January 18, 2023 by Super User This is a 35-foot multimedia art tower that uses triangular LED panels to steadily change its appearance for visitors to a big multi-use destination in a suburb of Dallas. Called Grandscape, the 433-acre lifestyle center (which opened in April 2020) has 3.9 million square feet of retail, dining, and entertainment anchors. A post by a designer …
Transparent LCDs Part Of Toolset Used To Solve Dutch Sex Assault Cold Case January 17, 2023 by Super User Police in the Netherlands used those shower-stall like transparent LCD set-ups in shopping malls to help generate leads on a series of sexual assaults of girls, tracing back more than a decade. The incidents go back to 2010, but an effort in late 2021 saw a composite drawing of the suspected offender put on public-facing …
New Salesforce Tower In Sydney Has Biggest Indoor LED Video Wall South Of Equator January 17, 2023 by Super User One of the more impressive lobby video walls I have seen is in one of the headquarters office towers of Salesforce, in downtown San Francisco. Now there’s an even more impressive variation on that – at the new Salesforce tower in Sydney, Australia. The new development is a 53-story building that is now the second …
Digital Signage Used To Pull Traveling Gamers Into Specialty Airport Lounges January 17, 2023 by Super User If I’m stuck in an airport because of delays or lengthy connection gaps, I’m finding a bar and a Bloody Mary, but a company called Gameway is offering a different time-killing distraction for airline travelers – a very 2023 version of a coin-operated gaming arcade. Gameway is building out a network of video gaming airport …
Big Roadside Digital Board Now On Third Generation For Oklahoma Casino January 16, 2023 by Super User Here’s an interesting story about the evolution of roadside digital billboard displays – a big casino sign in Oklahoma now on its third generation. The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa has lit up a new version of the giant sign along Interstate 44 – a big LED that rises 134 feet up from the …
Swedish Grocer’s Flagship Adds Vast LED Display To Back Wall; Plus Digital Endcaps January 12, 2023 by Super User Here’s yet more evidence that LED has been mainstreamed by the people who design things like retail spaces – a supermarket in Sweden that now sports a 16-meter-wide LED videowall over the bulk food section. The 52-foot LED wall is in a flagship store of the grocer Maxi ICA, at the Stormarknad Universitetet store in …
Twin Cities Airport Using LED Medallions At Curbside, Check-in To Help Guide Travellers January 5, 2023 by Super User Hat Tip to Craig Keefner, who runs the Kiosk Manufacturer Association, and has a detailed post up about the digital signage built into upgrades at the sprawling airport in Minneapolis-St. Paul. I did a post last month about four large LG LED displays in the terminal, but Keefner adds a lot more detail as well …
New LED Ceiling In Paris Office Block Works With Building’s Unique, Curvy Interior December 30, 2022 by Super User Let’s finish off 2022 on a positive note – highlighting a terrific creative job at a renovated building in Paris that respects and works with the building design and is not just a big screen filling a large interior space. This is 21 rue Châteaudun, an 1930s office building in Paris that was influenced by …
