DSE’s Apex Awards Being Announced Today Via Digital Signage Federation January 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes With Digital Signage Expo now just a memory, one aspect that was lost was the annual Apex awards that were handed out for great projects and creative. Prior to the show being killed off by COVID-19, the show organizers and Digital Signage Federation were working on the 2020 version of the awards, based on submissions. …
London’s Cheese Grater Gets 2mm DV-LED Upgrade For Lobby January 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is the updated reception lobby of The Leadenhall Building in the financial district of London – known by the nickname of The Cheese Grater, because of its tall wedge shape. The lobby originally had a 24-screen videowall, but the operators switched that out for direct view LED, putting in 32 sq. meters of 2mm …
Leyard Turns On Vast “MicroLED” Video Wall In Chinese EnergyCo Control Room January 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes The giant Chinese LED display manufacturer Leyard has started manufacturing, shipping and installing large format what it calls microLED displays – lighting up a vast wall in a Chinese utility company’s control room. The wall-filling display was activated on Dec. 31, 2020 for CHN ENERGY. That company is based in Beijing, but it is huge, …
NBA’s Cavs Add 750+ Screens To Updated Home Venue January 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, where the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers plays its games in normal times, recently did a digital facelift that added more than 750 displays around the sports and entertainment venue – from the concession areas to behind the scenes in the locker rooms. The 25-year-old venue contracted local area AV integrator Crescent Digital …
Ground-Level LED Billboard Bisected By Staircase Leading Into NJ Mega-Mall January 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting use of outdoor direct view LED – a billboard-sized display at ground level that bisects a wide entry staircase. It just went in at the American Dream mega-mall in the New Jersey Meadowlands area, near New York City. As is obvious from the pic, the manufacturer is SNA Displays, which also …
10 Times Square Adds 4-Board LED Array At High-Traffic NYC Corner January 6, 2021 by Dave Haynes Here’s another example of real estate owners who live the “Location Location Location” mantra turning primo addresses into media sites: this one in NYC Times Square. There is now a four-screen outdoor LED array cladding the new Yard House restaurant at the corner of 41st St. and 7th Ave. 10 Times Square is owned and managed by L.H. Charney Associates, …
NYC’s New Moynihan Train Hall Features 1,700 SF Of 4mm LED January 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Moynihan Train Hall opened for passengers last week in midtown New York City – an expanded, much more open and welcoming section of NYC Penn Station. Among the big visual features in open atrium passenger hall is a giant, old school analog clock and some 1,700 sq. feet of 4mm direct view LED. The …
Etisalat’s Dubai Mall Store Is Floor To Ceiling LED January 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes And we’re back, kinda sorta gradually … Happy 2021! The wireless carrier Etisalat is based in the United Arab Emirates, and is the case with many or most high visibility efforts in Dubai, the company’s new flagship store in the Dubai Mall is seriously over the top with digital displays. It appears the store has …
Video: Fantastic Application Of In-Store Digital And Experience At Warsaw Concept Store December 21, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a video that walks viewers through the pretty fantastic digital retailing set-up for the Warsaw concept and flagship store of the apparel retailing chain Modivo. I wrote about this a few weeks ago, but only had images to work off. The store is HEAVILY driven by digital, from LED on the store’s mall …
LED Is The Primary Architectural Design Feature In This Shanghai Coach Store December 15, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a new immersive retailing store in Shanghai, run by the handbag and accessories brand Coach. Details are limited, but what I found on Linkedin says this is Coach’s first immersive digital store, in Shanghai IAPM, which is an upscale mall. Coach’s VP for Visual Experience says on Linkedin that “customers can change the …
