New Mesh LED On UK Campus Cycles Between Public Art And Messaging June 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting use of low-rez mesh LED on the corner of a structure – in this case a new building in a busy part of the campus of the University of Kentucky, In Lexington, KY. The 55×24 foot video wall – called the Cornerstone – was schemed in from the design stages and …
Steel Giant’s VIP Bus Has Windows Overlaid With Transparent OLEDs June 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes All the information is in Korean and doesn’t give me many answers when translated, but I was nonetheless intrigued by this Youtube video of a bus specially kitted out with transparent OLED displays in all the windows. It was done by Hyun Sun Display, a Korean specialty display and integration company for Posco, a huge …
India’s Pickcel Adds To 80K Screen Footprint With Fitness Club Deal June 21, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Indian economy is among the Top 5 in the world – larger than France and the UK – so it is reasonable to assume it could be an opportune market for digital signage technology. While there are some western CMS software companies that outsource development to India, it’s still rare to bump into a …
Pavilion In Chinese Mega-City Park Animates Its Front With LED-Embedded Glass Curtain Wall June 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a nice use of LED embedded in building glass at some sort of pavilion building in a massive city park in Chengdu, a mega-city in the Sichuan province of China. The whole front face of the building is curtain wall glass, made up of some 100 glass panels, with 14 different sizes. The …
Fashion Brand Uses Immersive Creative, Floor-To-Ceiling LED Columns, For Barcelona Flagship June 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Barcelona creative technology shop Instronic does very nice work – the latest example a flagship store in the historic city center for the Portuguese fashion label Parfois. The shop has support columns fully clad in LED displays, and what looks like great experiential content amplified by reflective ceilings. The store design was done by …
Giant Wraparound LED Board Switched On In Downtown LA’s Entertainment District June 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes That big wraparound LED board that was announced earlier in the year for a hotel complex in the entertainment district of downtown LA has now been switched on – a 15,000 sq. ft. 8mm display across from the convention center and the sports venue now called the Crypto.com Arena. The DOOH ad display is at …
London Ikea Uses Fun Projection Mapping To Animate Workspace Section June 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes Projection-mapping is not all that common in retail, probably owing to a few factors like lighting conditions, but when the set-up is right, it can be fun and effective – like this Ikea in London, UK. This is an Ikea in the Wembley district that has been fitted in the workspaces area with some playful …
Europe’s Largest LED Ceiling To Light Up Manchester’s Iconic Printworks Venue June 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes An old newspaper building block in Manchester, UK that was re-imagined as a multi-tenant entertainment venue is getting an upgrade with what will be the largest LED ceiling in Europe. The entire common space ceiling inside of Printworks will be 900 sq. meters of ceiling-suspended LED – a lightweight, fire-rated set of modules/cabinets provided by …
Northwestern’s Qatari Campus Includes Giant LED Wall In Atrium Lobby June 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes The video is very curious and the details limited, but here’s a look nonetheless at an ambitious, big-dollar video wall project at the Qatari outpost of Chicago’s much respected Northwestern University. It is a big display in an atrium that is about three storeys tall and 92 sq. meters in total visual footprint – done …
Public Utility Switches On A 60-Meter-Wide Fine Pitch LED Control Room Wall June 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes Behold what may well be the biggest damn video wall in Canada – a 60-meter-wide by 2.7 meter tall beast in the control room of a public utility company. I kinda stumbled across this on the website of Engineering Harmonics, a Toronto-based consulting and integration firm. It is a 1.2mm pitch microLED-ish wall that the …
