Most of the flip-disc and split-flap installations I’ve seen – old-school mechanical or digital – have tended to be single screens that are used ... […]
I really like split-flap and flip-disc mechanical displays – updated versions of the chattering signs at rail stations and airports that show key passenger ... […]
I’ve always loved spinning and chattering split-flap and flip-disc mechanical display boards, but probably like other people with operations in their backgrounds, tempered that ... […]
If you have been around the industry for a while and Digital Signage Expo was part of your travels, you may remember 4-5 years ago a Brooklyn studio called Breakfast showing its flip-disc displays off on one side of the exhibit hall floor. […]
This isn’t really digital signage, but the tech comes from a small Brooklyn creative hardware shop that works around the edges of the industry, using a modern take on flip disc displays. Pulse is a two-story tall just fired up at the brand new global headquarters for Equinox in Hudson Yards in New York. […]
I’m a total sucker for flip disc displays – electro-mechanical signs that rapidly flip through a succession of characters to convey information in a way that’s old school cool, and kind of hypnotic. The tech is not new. These sorts of signs have been in airports and rail stations since the ’60s. […]
In an odd twist, here’s a second post in a week about flip-disc technology being used as an alternative to digital screens. The Bank of Montreal – one of the big five national banks in Canada – is celebrating its 200th year in business in 2017, and one of the things it is doing to mark that is something of a digital art installation in the company’s Toronto office tower. […]
It’s slightly weird that the thing I perhaps liked the most on the DSE show floor last week wasn’t digital signage tech in any conventional sense, but what really caught my eye was the flip-disc display shown by the Brooklyn-based tech/agency shop Breakfast. […]
