600-Foot Office Block Now A Night-Time Billboard Along Shanghai Riverfront January 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Venetian Resort’s Faux Venice Streetscape in Vegas Projection-Mapped For Holidays December 28, 2021 by Dave Haynes People involved in projection mapping work on buildings have to – when necessary – explain to clients that the visual experience only works when the sun goes down, but here’s a case in which projecting on a historic streetscape could work any time of day … because the building facades are indoors. The Venetian Resort …
Boston Market Building’s Atrium Transformed Through Indoor Projection-Mapping December 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a really interesting use of an otherwise unproductive atrium space in a market building in Quincy, MA, a south Boston suburb. The Gallery at Kilroy Square is now an interactive canvas for local and regional digital artists that will switch out exhibitions easily, because the main delivery mechanism is projection mapping. The program …
Experiential Video Wall Greets Visitors To NAB’s New HQ Building December 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes The National Association of Broadcasters, or NAB, recently relocated its headquarters, and the new venue features a pair of experiential digital features that greet and inform visitors. The Washington, D.C. headquarters in the Ballpark District includes a 17 x 12 foot LED video wall in the lobby, and a five-panel digital Hall of Fame touchscreen …
Need A Fireplace, But Not Its Heat? No Problem … December 20, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a clever little makeshift project that makes it possible to have a holiday season fireplace feature in a home or office, without the smoke or heat build-up of a real log-burner. It’s particularly useful in a place like Hawaii, which doesn’t have a lot lot of need for a real fireplace. Mark Tawara, …
