Iconic UN Buildings In NYC Projection-Mapped To Kick Off World Cup Program November 8, 2022 by Dave Haynes Projection mapping on buildings is reasonably common these days, and much easier to do because of technology advances, but it is still impressive when a very large, iconic structure becomes a digital canvas. Earlier this fall, the United Nations headquarters in New York were illuminated by some 26 projectors to kick off a campaign celebrating …
AV Magazine Had Its Big Awards Night This Weekend In London; Here Are The Winners … November 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes UK-based AV Magazine holds a big, splashy and boozy (from the looks of it!) black tie awards night annually to identify and celebrate jobs well done in the pro AV sector, with a focus on the UK and EU markets. The latest edition of the awards was this past weekend, and here’s the list of …
Orlando’s Airport Switches On Impressive Digital Art Features In New Terminal C November 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes My love-hate relationship with Orlando and particularly its main airport is shifting increasingly to affection as that big, bustling venue starts to rival Singapore’s Changi for its use of digital displays and great creative. I kind of dread flying in and out of Orlando because the planes tend to have a lot of people on …
Clever Creative On LED Wall Gives Corporate Lobby Illusion Of Greater Depth November 2, 2022 by Dave Haynes The great majority of videos I’ve seen in the past couple of years that used false perspective visual illusions have involved over-the-top creative that sees dragons and cats and trucks and you-name-it seemingly escaping the boundaries of an LED screen fixed on the corner of a building, but here’s a nice, much simpler execution done …
NYC Hotel Hosting Billboard That Ate Times Square Now Sports Pair Of 50-Ft LED Walls In Lobby October 31, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Marriott Marquis in New York’s tourist mecca of Times Square has one of the larger LED video walls on the planet lining a full block of the hotel, and now that building also has two jumbo LED video walls inside, aimed at guests. The hotel – owned by Host Hotels & Resorts – factored …
Printed Ad Tarps Swapped For Lightweight LED Displays On Construction Hoarding October 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes Construction hoarding at the ground-level of building sites has always been home to different forms of advertising – planned with printed tarps or mesh, or via guerrilla marketers armed with posters and glue. A German company has a different idea – attaching lightweight LED arrays to building scaffolding, down low or up high. Our German …
Digital Helping Drive Experiences At Retailer Dick’s New Houses Of Sport October 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes U.S. sporting goods retailer Dick’s has been introducing new experiential stores – each called a House of Sport – in a handful of locations, each going heavy with hand’s-on and digital experiences, and each wth a lot of digital display. This is one of them, though not sure which. The design and specification of the …
LA Clippers’ New Arena’s Tech Plans Guided By Digital Transformation Giant Globant October 27, 2022 by Dave Haynes If you are planning on chasing the digital display business for the new home of the LA Clippers NBA team, your path probably takes you through a giant digital transformation company called Globant – which will “connect the technologies” that bring the vision for what will be the Intuit Dome to life. Says PR: Globant, …
New $5B, Digital-Heavy Arena/Resort Complex Touted For North End Of Vegas Strip October 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes I assume it would be wise for any sales or business development person to add an asterisk to sales opportunity reports when the project involves a Las Vegas entertainment resort not owned and backed by MGM, Caesars, Wynn or another well-established resorts brand. That would certainly be the case with the All Net Resort & …
Utah Jazz’s Home Arena Completes Big LED Refresh In Seating Bowl October 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes Vivint Arena, home to the NBA’s Utah Jazz, just completed a big LED refresh in its seating areas – adding a pile of new displays manufactured by Absen and put in by Revel Media Group, a content shop turned integrator based in Utah. The new LED boards at the Salt Lake City venue include: Upper …
