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Voyeurism, LED-lamped signs and disruptive LEC -- not "D" -- panels.
“The myth of a lone genius having a eureka moment that changes the world is indeed a myth. Most innovation is the result of long hours, building on the input of others. Ideas spawn from earlier ideas, bouncing from person to person and being reshaped as they go.”
-- TED curator, Chris Anderson in Wired magazine’s Film School, January 2011
Several months back, a reader criticized ST for presenting a “fluff” article, meaning the reader thought the pages offered little reading value. Truth is, the article presented several, LED-based, sign-design case studies, so readers, especially sign designers, could view and consider different shops’ and designers’ work.
Case studies also provide new ideas for signshop fabricators and technicians. And, they grant “bragging rights” to the sign-building shop and give prestige- status ammunition to its sales staff.
Viewing other’s signs and case studies – voyeuring, loosely speaking, at other’s design work – is a sign designer’s way of life, just as artists and art students visit galleries and museums to see and study subjects and techniques.
-->ST has presented case studies for, oh, 105 years. ST Media Group Intl.’s sign-related, book catalog (www.bookstorestmediagroup.com), which lists many how-to books, also lists such case-study tomes as Sign Gallery Intl. and Sign Gallery 5, 6 and 7. Further, the list includes Rudi Stern’s The New Let There be Neon case-study collection (“for designers, architects, sculptors and neon-sign designers and fabricators”) and Dusty Sprengnagel’s Neon World, which contains 350, full-color photos of beautifully designed, neon signs.
Here, we’re presenting several design-related, solid-state-lighting case studies and a sidebar of interesting news reports.
Courtside signage first
ANC Sports Enterprises LCC (Purchase, NY), a provider of integrated, multimedia systems and sports-marketing services, announced the BNP Paribas Showdown (February 28, New York City’s Madison Square Gardens) as the first professional, U.S. tennis event to feature LED-based signage around the court perimeter. The tennis exhibition was part of the United States Tennis Assn.’s (USTA) Tennis Night in America,
BNP Paribas, the eurozone’s largest bank, by deposits, has offices in more than 80 countries. It employs more than 200,000 people.
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