Italy’s Expo2020 Pavilion In Dubai Includes Four-Meter LED Human Body November 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting four-meter tall LED display sculpture that uses 82 LED cabinets to create a towering representation of the human body, for an an exhibit in the Italy Pavilion at the Expo 2020 in Dubai. Warning – artspeak ahead: The Bracco Group has mounted a large-scale multimedia installation, focusing on the union between …
WHSmith Store Uses Massive Digital Facade For New London Stansted Airport Store November 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes Technical details have eluded me, but what I do know is the just-opened WHSmith store at London Stansted Airport went all-in with digital – with a huge, all-digital facade facing the concourse and screens all through the store. The travel retail focused online publication Moodie Davitt Report was at the store opening Wednesday and filed …
High-End Guangzhou Restaurant Uses Projection On Walls, Table To Create Immersive Dining Experience November 16, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a fine-dining restaurant in the south China port city of Guangzhou that set up a dedicated VIP dining room that uses wall and overhead projection to create an immersive dining experience. The restaurant adopted a unique “Maritime Silk Road” theme that relates a time when that area was not the world epicenter of electronics …
LED Mainstreamed: B.C. Golf Resort Hotel Adds 63-Foot Fine Pitch Video Wall For Weddings And Meetings November 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes In another sign that LED video walls are now a mainstreamed pro AV and digital signage solution, here is a giant 256-cabinet LED wall in the multi-purpose room of a resort hotel in Victoria, B.C. The ballroom video wall at the Westin Bear Mountain Golf Resort & Spa is 63 feet wide and 9 feet …
Check Out This Super-Nice, Very Different Digital Lobby Experience At Uber’s HQ (with Video) November 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is super-nice and wonderfully different from a lot of the digital display work that’s going into big company HQ buildings – a two-storey digital art experience in the lobby of Uber’s new head office in the Mission Bay district of San Francisco. The ride-sharing giant hired the Brooklyn-based design firm Hush Studios, and used Electrosonic …
Finn Telecoms Retailer Greets Customers With OLED Display Canopy November 10, 2021 by Dave Haynes Via Invidis The Finnish telecommunications group Elisa has a store in Helsinki’s Mall of Tripla, quite close to its headquarters building. The shop is interesting, reports my friends at the German language publisher invidis, because it is using LG’s wallpaper-thin, flexible OLED displays as a canopy above shoppers as they walk in. Next to an …
No Crying For Boohoo As Its LED-filled Offices Win Big UK AV Award November 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes The UK-based publication AV Magazine does a big awards evening – black tie and the whole nine yards – every year in London, and the 2021 version was the other night. Much of what is handed out is AV stuff that doesn’t have a whole bunch to do with digital signage – think of when …
Branded Cities Touts “Proprietary” DreamRoom 3D In New Toronto DOOH Campaigns; BS Filter Twitching November 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes My BS filter is going off in a big way with news from the media company Branded Cities is showcasing “proprietary technology that enables brands to create an immersive world within their ad” at a couple of high traffic digital OOH venues in Toronto, starting today. Maybe it is something new and it just doesn’t …
LED ATM Surround Gets Display-Cased To Stop The Beating November 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes When I have done talks about LED displays with different groups I have often related how susceptible they can be to accidental or intentional damage – especially with conventional surface-mounted LED displays that don’t have any sort of protective coating. Exhibit A in my slides has inevitably been a display that is built around two …
LED On Foil Reduces Weight Of Billboard-Sized Building Screen To Just 110 Pounds November 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes One of the challenges faced by media companies or building owners who want to put up an LED digital billboard on the top or side of a commercial building is sorting out the engineering implication of the additional weight, and how the screen is mounted. In some cases, there might be additional construction or reinforcement …
