It Takes 12 Techs And Seven Days To Service, Optimize That Huge New LED Wall At The LVCC August 26, 2021 by Dave Haynes The deployment and field services firm USSI Global has pushed out an interesting press release about its role in dealing with that massive video wall that’s been lit up in the lobby of the new part of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Samsung has already put out a lot of material about the 4mm LED …
NYC Artist Brings Above-Ground View Into MTA Subway Cars In Guerilla Projection Mapping Effort August 26, 2021 by Dave Haynes Via DesignBoom, Hat Tip David Title Suppose you could sit in a subway car, look up at the ceiling, and view the passing scenes at street level. That’s the core idea behind a very clever art project done on a subway car’s ceiling on the New York system, using projection mapping to blast motion images …
Swiss Timepiece Firm Uses Super-Nice Mosaic LCD Video Wall In NYC Store To Drive Its Brand August 25, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a great example of how LCD can still do a fabulous job as a signature video wall – a mosaic with sync’d content in a New York store of the Swiss luxury timepiece firm Bucherer. Eric Buterbaugh of New York-based content Show+Tell posted the video (below) on Linkedin, but he is a master …
Asian Fast Food Chain Itsu Does COVID-driven Pivot To Self-Service Order Screens And Meal Status Displays August 24, 2021 by Dave Haynes The pandemic has forced a lot of fast food and fast casual restaurant operators to rethink how they operated – from adding drive-thru capability to reducing the amount of staff-to-customer interactions. What the Asian-inspired Itsu chain is doing in the UK is a good, though certainly not unique, example of how those kinds of restaurants …
Saudi’s Expo Dubai Pavilion Includes Huge 1,300 Sq. M. LED Jutting From Ground August 23, 2021 by Dave Haynes The 2020 Expo in Dubai got pushed off by a year-plus by COVID-19, but is set to open in the UAE in October – with one of the biggest physical attractions the Saudi Arabia Pavilion. The boxy building rises at a sharp angle from the sand, and features LED light strips on the outer faces …
Korean University Uses LED-embedded Building Glass With Near 99%+ Transparency August 20, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a video of architectural glass with embedded RGB LEDs that still offer 99%+ transparency – in this case at a university building in South Korea. There may well be engineering, supply and cost reasons why architects and building engineers say this sort of thing is not feasible, but it certainly seems there is …
Cleveland Sports Fans Get Amped For Games Walking Through LED Power Portal August 20, 2021 by Dave Haynes Cleveland sports fans will know about the Power Portal LED tunnel at the city’s main sports arena, but it is new to me – and likely many digital signage people. Lit up two years ago, it is one of the main entry passageways into the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse, home of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers. The …
An LED Butterfly, Or Maybe Dragonfly, Lands At South China Airport August 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting solution to an architectural problem faced by whatever media company has the concession at the international airport in the southern Chinese city of Kunming. The big bulkhead between the up and down escalators is visually interrupted by a very large vertical support column. The standard solution would be to put separate …
Florida Developer Using LED Video Wall To Make Statement About Big Mixed-Use Project August 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes The developers of a big mixed-use site in Coral Gables, FL put in a giant fine pitch LED display in the main office tower lobby to make a statement about the project. The developer, Agave Ponce, wanted the display to make it clear the property was unique for the area. Mediterranean-styled Plaza Coral Gables is …
Here’s A Big Virtual Waterfall On A Video Wall In A K-12 School. Yeah, A School. August 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is an LED project and custom creative that’s a little mind-blowing for a couple of reasons. It’s a BIG fine pitch LED video wall in the new common area of a Christian K-12 school in Atlanta – albeit a private school that charges more than $25K a year in tuition and has four full-time …
