LED Becomes The Walls In Nike’s Dubai Mall Store April 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a great example of the whole notion of how direct view LED can be something added to a store design, or in cases like this, how it can be the primary architectural design element. It is a Nike store in the huge Dubai Mall, and is a set of LEDs put in by …
Massive Samsung LED Wall Fills Lobby Wall In LVCC’s Almost-Open West Hall February 5, 2026April 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes While the pandemic has meant most people in our industry put a stop to pretty regular swings though Las Vegas for trade shows and conferences, that city’s primary convention center has been expanding its footprint and is just about ready to open. When I was last in that city, the LVCC expansion was just in …
Giant Ferris Wheel Embeds Transparent LED For Grand-Scale Nighttime Visuals April 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is the Eye Of Heihe, one of those giant tourist attraction ferris wheels that seem to be popping up in big cities. In this case it has been kitted out with a huge array of transparent mesh LED. The attraction is in Heihe, on the Chinese side of the China-Russia border north of Beijing. …
Latest Gentle Monster Eyewear Store Blends Particle Accelerator, Giant Shrimp Thingies And Video Walls April 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes You may recall a recent post about a South Korean eyewear chain that goes seriously over-the-top with its retail design concepts – with the one in Silicon Valley including an animatronic old lady who nods off and a pair of life-sized, stuffed donkeys. Here’s another Gentle Monster store – in a buzzy Beijing shopping district …
Chicago’s TheBulletin Building Millennial-Centric Ad Network In Upscale Residential Blocks April 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes A Chicago start-up is using plain old TVs as digital bulletin boards in upscale residential blocks as a targeted digital OOH advertising medium, with some 500 screens in a handful of U.S. cities and a sales deal with another start-up, New York-based Screenverse. Screenverse will manage all direct and programmatic sales across TheBulletin.io residential DOOH …
LGA’s Much-Needed Reno Job Includes Dozens Of New LG Flight And Passenger Info Displays April 6, 2021 by Dave Haynes I haven’t been through New York’s LaGuardia airport since moving to east coast Canada, as what flights that do get out of Halifax to New York head mostly to Newark. Plus COVID. But I’ve been aware that the much-loathed airport in Queens was finally transitioning from the look, feel and state of what you’d encounter …
Digital-Filled American Dream Mega-Mall Struggling To Operate In Covid-19 Era April 6, 2021 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
