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Making Meaning with Media Architecture
We’ve written in this space before about the degrees of freedom in design NanoLumens grants each of our clients but its worth briefly touching on the media architecture successes of a few...
Three Video Wall and LED Display Trends to Monitor in 2020
The new year is here and the digital signage landscape looks a lot different than it did this time last year. We expect it will evolve even further over the course of 2020 and we’ve highlighted a...
Highlighting Our Favorite Installs of 2019
As 2019 comes to a close, we thought we’d take the opportunity to look back at a handful of our favorite NanoLumens installations from the past year. The post Highlighting Our Favorite Installs of...
LED in CLT: Giving Charlotte, North Carolina a Modern Art Makeover
One of the sharpest cities in the American Southeast has received a dramatic digital makeover in recent years and the new look is delivering welcome buzz to a community striving to assert itself...
Have a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving
The leaves have turned here outside the NanoLumens headquarters in Norcross, Georgia, and a brisk wind has started to smart rosy cheeks in the early mornings. It is late fall, and the Thanksgiving...
Darker Darks are the Key to LED Contrast Ratios
In attempting to digitally recreate real life on a screen, one of the most important metrics to consider is contrast ratio, which the National American Standards Institute lays out as “the...
We Wish Everyone a Happy and Safe Veterans Day
November 11th is celebrated every year in the United States as Veterans Day, honoring all Americans who have served our country in the armed forces. The holiday, renamed from Armistice Day in...
Defining Distance: Pixel Pitch vs. Fill Ratio
There are two ways to measure the space between pixels and each tell their own story. The first is pixel pitch, a common specification listed early in the description of any digital display...
Ironing out straightforward definitions for the AV industry’s most malleable terminology!
OLED (and Other Things): A Series of Questions Asked and Answered Concerning LED and OLED
LED, LCD, ULED, OLED, HDR, DLP, AV. This alphabet soup can get confusing if you aren’t immersed in the terminology on a day to day basis and one of the most common mix ups occurs with the phrases...
Dive into the Designers Guide to Degrees of Freedom
Taking place next Thursday at 1 PM, what this webinar ultimately promises is that participants will depart with the knowledge they need to design the direct view LED vision that’s always lived in...
Count the Rainbow: How Does Bit Depth Work?
We would like to once again explore another slightly technical subject that readers would do well to understand: bit depth. While most people involved in the digital display industry have at least...
Seen at CEDIA 2019
You may have missed it but the CEDIA 2019 show took place earlier this month, bringing together thousands of home technology professionals and hundreds of exhibitors for a weeklong expo. For those...
Defeating Display Downtime
Displays are designed to communicate something, be that a message, an emotion, or a call to action but if your display is down, what you communicate is failure, regardless of the angle from which...
Let’s Geek Out on Electroluminescence
Light emitting diodes do exactly what their name implies; they emit light. But how? And why? If you’re interested in diving into the world of LED, answering these questions is a natural starting...
NanoLumens Locks Down LED Lingo in Latest White Paper
Because of the complexity of ever-changing industry jargon, purchasing a new digital display seems daunting. In this blog, we cover some of the most widely used terms. The post NanoLumens Locks...
Addressing Passenger Pain Points: How LED Digital Signage Lightens Your Time in Line
Airports can –and should- do more with their digital signage technology because these LED displays do more to ameliorate passengers’ chief complaint than any other solution. The post Addressing...
On Labor Day, NanoLumens Wishes You a Fair and Fulfilling Work Life
This Labor Day, though most people won’t be in the office or on the job, remember that we work not for work’s sake but to better our lives and the lives of those who will work in the future. Have...
Function over Form: The Origins of Servicizing
Large-format digital displays have never been things to simply unbox and hang on the wall, but for decades this was how many manufacturers did business. Under that model, sale of the product was...
Learning Large-Format Lingo: Is 4K a Useful Term?