Projection-Mapping Campaign In London Hints At Countdown Timer Tension For TV Bomb Squad January 24, 2022 by Super User A lot of the projection-mapping on large buildings has been for special events and longer-term, scheduled public shows, but here’s a case in London in which it was used for a short period to count down to the opening episode of a new TV series. A countdown clock was projected this past weekend on the …
NYC’s JFK Airport Getting $9.5B Terminal One That Very Likely Includes A LOT Of Digital January 24, 2022 by Super User Huge construction projects present very long lead times and a lot of paperwork and patience for anyone getting involved, but there appears to be some pretty good display technology opportunities for what’s being called a new mega-terminal at New York’s JFK airport. The existing and former sites of Terminals 1, 2, and 3, on the …
Curved, Fine-Pitch LED Video Wall Focal Point For Newly-Opened First Americans Museum In OKC January 20, 2022 by Super User Hat Tip to Craig Keefner of Kiosk Industry, who pointed me to this nice video wall project. The First Americans Museum of Oklahoma is described as the only space in the United States where visitors can have an immersive experience learning about American history through the lens of 39 Tribal Nations, and one of the …
Parisian Mall’s LED Set-up Offers Visual Domination For Marketers January 19, 2022 by Super User I’d put this in the oldie but goodie category of posts – an LED-lined shopping mall atrium in suburban Paris. I came across a domination campaign being done in Westfield’s Les 4 Temps mall and thought it was very impressive in terms of scale and managing to be visually unavoidable, without being crass about it. …
600-Foot Office Block Now A Night-Time Billboard Along Shanghai Riverfront January 14, 2022 by Super User China is run JUST a bit differently than much of the world, so I don’t know that what happens there translates to other countries, where things like zoning bylaws, impact assessments and approvals are common – but this video from LED manufacturer Unilumin provides a pretty compelling sense of the possible for city skylines. It …
Israel’s Most Popular Playhouse Using Street-Level Window Screens To Drive Awareness, Ticket Sales January 13, 2022 by Super User Putting screens in full-length windows that face the street can present a bunch of technical challenges – the biggest ones handling glare and heat build-up from the sun. But there’s also a big challenge in making the screen infrastructure tidy and like it all belongs there. This is the ground-level lobby of the new home …
New Under-Lake Tunnel In China Uses LEDs And Virtual Sky Visuals To Counteract Driver Eye Fatigue January 12, 2022 by Super User A reader turned me on to news about a new highway tunnel that runs for almost 11 kms under a lake east of Shanghai in China – specifically because among the engineering marvel’s features is an LED ceiling that mimics a blue sky and clouds. The low-rez LED ceiling in the Taihu Tunnel is there …
30 Curved OLEDs Create Kinetic, Hanging Flower Meadow At London Exhibit January 12, 2022 by Super User There have been a few examples out there of LG’s super-thin, open frame OLED display panels being used to do things like curved walls and ceilings, and even some fixed sculptures. But here’s a case in which the displays were set in flower petal shapes, suspended, and then made to gently open and close using …
Three-Sided LED Column Is Towering Centerpiece In Chilean Flagship Store January 3, 2022 by Super User The visual centerpiece of the Santiago, Chile flagship store for retailer Falabella is a more than 16 meter tall, three-sided fine pitch LED column with a wide assortment of custom creative designed much more to deliver experience than sell stuff. The column is in a central plaza, surrounded by up/down escalators, and it may (or …
Beauty Brand’s New Andorran Concept Store Uses LED Columns As main Design Feature, Inside And Outside December 28, 2021 by Super User This is definitely one of the nicer applications of transparent LED technology I’ve seen applied to retail – a concept store for a beauty brand in Andorra. The digital experience side of the Julia Onix store was pulled together by the Barcelona-based creative technology shop Instronic, and uses semi-transparent mesh LED as the main feature …
