Digital-Filled American Dream Mega-Mall Struggling To Operate In Covid-19 Era April 6, 2021 by Super User The American Dream mega mall in New Jersey, just outside of New York City, has been positioned as a glimpse at the future of shopping centers. But the mall’s owners, whacked hard by pandemic restrictions, is struggling just to stay open. The mall’s Canadian owners have had to arrange a special deal with the banks …
Uniqlo Uses LED Cubes As Animated Brand Identifiers On Store Facade April 5, 2021 by Super User Large-scale and big budget direct view LED projects tend to get most of the trade press and overall industry attention, but sometimes there are modest projects that are worth calling out – like this one for the Japanese apparel chain Uniqlo. I’m not sure where this is, but Uniqlo has a simple set of 2.5mm …
Huge 1,200 Sq. Meter LED Canopy Looms Over Chinese Shopping Mall April 1, 2021 by Super User This is a 1,200 sq. meter LED canopy ceiling looming over the common area of Joy City, a large shopping mall in Xi’an, in central China. The 5mm pixel pitch LianTronics display is touted as doing glasses-free 3D visuals that serve as something of an attraction for the shopping center. I think this has more …
Airport Retailer Starts Wrapping Multi-Brand Vending Machine Banks With DV LED Ribbons April 1, 2021 by Super User If you cast your mind back a year and plus, you may have vague memories of these places called airports, and venues and things in them where you bought stuff, like Gravol or $6 bottles of water. A company that somewhat specializes in airport retailing – Hudson – has started to fit out non-staffed locations …
Collecting Luggage At Melbourne’s T2 Puts Travelers In Front Of 85M LED Ribbon April 1, 2021 by Super User This is the baggage carousel area at the Terminal 2 of Melbourne Airport in Australia – an 85 meter wraparound LED ribbon that greets arriving travelers with digital artwork. The set-up, which went in about three years ago (just learning about it now, though), uses SiliconCore’s Daffodil 2.5mm pitch LED panels, with a total display …
107-Foot High LED Tower Fills Atrium In Guangzhou Shopping Mall March 31, 2021 by Super User This is a 107 foot tall, 40 foot wide direct view LED display suspended in the atrium of an upscale urban shopping mall in Guangzhou, China. The 4,328 square foot display featuring the giant, pouty Versace model covers up the elevator tower, and includes wraparound corners. The DV LED cabinets are from Yaham. No details …
New Family Resort Using Digital Signage To Message Across Massive Physical Footprint March 30, 2021 by Super User Most of the PR that comes in about work in resorts tends to be for casinos, and the giant displays the owners put into the sports books and on the sides of the building. Here’s a good example of a digital signage install across a full report property, in this case the new family-focused, non-casino …
Brilliant Example Of Digital Merged With Mechanical For Engaging Interactive Work March 29, 2021 by Super User This is brilliant stuff … famous works of art digitized and playfully integrated with old-school mechanical devices to make them interactive. The exhibit is called Mechanical Masterpieces – a collection of paintings reimagined by artist Neil Mendoza for the 21st century. Optimized for short attention spans, it allows viewers to poke, switch, disco, inflate and …
Here’s A Modest But Good Example Of How DV LED Offers Up Design, Install Flexibility March 29, 2021 by Super User One of the key arguments made for using direct view LED is its modularity – the ability to build a video wall that meets shapes that aren’t just 16:9 rectangles. Here’s a modest little DV LED video display done by integrator AVI SPL for Advent Health, that shows what can be done with LED, that …
Real Estate Developer Uses Anamorphic Illusions On Indoor Corporate LED Video Wall March 29, 2021 by Super User New anamorphic 3D visuals on big LED boards located in public plazas in Asia seem to be popping up more and more on feeds like Linkedin. Like this one with a Star Trek craft flying out of a building corner. Here’s a very different take – a corporate office in Vancouver, BC that is using …
