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From statement walls to menus to modern placemaking, we’ve shown across our projects that there are hundreds of ways to use our products. Check out some of our favorite applications on this list of 101 Ways to Use a Split Flap or Picture Flap, using our interactive technology, Algorithm, and our web app, Portal.

  1. Train Schedules — Bring classic railway nostalgia to life with real-time or rotating train schedules.
  2. Flight Departures — Recreate the iconic airport departures board with dynamically updating flight information.
  3. Office Welcome Sign — Welcome employees, clients, guests, and VIPs with a personalized message.
  4. Coffee Roast Information — Share coffee origins, roast profiles, tasting notes, or fun facts in a cafe.
  5. Vintage Interior Design — Add movement and authentic analog character to a vintage-inspired interior.
  6. Data Visualization — Turn changing numbers, statistics, or other data into a physical visual experience.
  7. Hotel Amenities — Highlight amenities, services, and perks available to hotel guests.
  8. Airport Installation — Bring analog movement and the nostalgia of travel into a modern airport.
  9. Picture Flap Donor Wall — Recognize university donors with a dynamic, image-driven donor wall.
  10. Cocktail Menu — Feature a cocktail alongside its description, ingredients, and price.

#3. Office Welcome Sign

#19. University Stats 

  1. Artist Spotlight or Marquee — Promote current and upcoming performers at a theater, music hall, or entertainment venue.
  2. Moving Mural — Transform a wall into an ever-changing kinetic mural.
  3. Office Slogan — Put a company slogan or signature phrase front and center.
  4. Food Hall Order-Up Board — Announce when food hall customer orders are ready for pickup.
  5. Historical Timeline or Brand Story — Tell a company, institution, or community’s story through a rotating timeline.
  6. Pop-Up Promotion — Draw attention to a temporary activation with floating signage.
  7. New Product Announcements — Introduce new products, designer collections, or launches in a retail environment.
  8. Coffee Menu — Display drinks, prices, seasonal offerings, and cafe specials.
  9. Picture Flap University Stats — Show prospective students campus statistics, student life, achievements, and other university highlights.
  10. Restaurant Reservations — Welcome upcoming reservations and special guests as they arrive.

#48. Events Calendar

#47. Message Wall

  1. Social Media Promotion — Encourage visitors to follow your brand with a handle, hashtag, or social CTA on your Split Flap.
  2. 3D Wall Collage — Use mechanical movement to turn imagery into a dimensional, ever-changing 3D wall collage.
  3. Statement Wall — Create a large-scale focal point that immediately defines a space.
  4. Sustainable Signage — Replace screen-heavy signage with a durable, lower-energy analog alternative.
  5. Reception Signage — Welcome and inform visitors from the moment they enter.
  6. L-Shaped Signage — Wrap kinetic signage around a corner for an unexpected architectural installation.
  7. Trade Show Booth Signage — Make a booth stand out with movement, sound, and changing messaging.
  8. Office Core Values — Rotate through company values, principles, or cultural commitments.
  9. Concessions Signage — Display menus, specials, announcements, or pickup information at concession stands.
  10. Museum Exhibition Details — Share exhibit names, context, dates, artists, or interpretive information.

#16. Pop-Up Promotion

#66. Retail or Dispensary Product Details

  1. Hotel Engagement — Integrate analog into the guest experience to create better hotel engagements and special guest moments.
  2. Wayfinding — Direct attendees and guests toward rooms, attractions, gates, departments, or destinations.
  3. Pixel Wall — Turn individual flaps into pixels for large-scale analog graphics and patterns.
  4. Restaurant Anniversary Celebration — Celebrate a restaurant’s anniversary, milestone, or history with guests.
  5. Retail Holiday Hours — Keep shoppers updated on seasonal and holiday opening hours.
  6. Beach Conditions — Provide signage for resort guests on current surf, tide, temperature, or beach conditions.
  7. Sales Leaderboard or KPIs — Keep teams motivated with changing sales results, goals, and performance metrics.
  8. Brand Identity Wall — Translate brand colors, imagery, language, and personality into a physical installation.
  9. Currency Rates — Display current exchange rates in banks, financial institutions, hotels, or travel environments.
  10. Luxury Signage — Add bespoke movement and craftsmanship to premium hospitality, retail, and residential spaces.

#41. Analog Art Wall

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#33. Pixel Wall

  1. Analog Art Wall — Create programmable artwork without relying on a conventional digital screen.
  2. Recessed Analog Concierge — Integrate a concierge-style information display directly into the architecture.
  3. Office Message Board — Upgrade the traditional office message board with large-scale, legible mechanical signage.
  4. Employee Shout-Outs — Celebrate birthdays, accomplishments, new hires, and team wins.
  5. Game Show Rankings — Update contestant rankings, scores, and points throughout a game.
  6. Casino Wins — Celebrate the biggest wins, jackpots, or winners of the day or week.
  7. Message Wall — Create a central destination for rotating messages, announcements, and prompts.
  8. Event Calendar — Keep visitors informed about upcoming workshops, lectures, classes, and events with a large-format calendar.
  9. Stadium Fan Engagement — Turn stadium signage into an interactive part of the fan experience with analog stadium signage.
  10. Today’s Weather — Share live or rotating weather updates from centrally located mounted signage.
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#29. Concessions Signage

#54. Stadium Wall

  1. Inspirational Quotes — Rotate through memorable quotes on signage legible from across a large space.
  2. Office Sports Scores — Bring live sports scores and game updates into the workplace.
  3. Aquarium and Zoo Displays — Rotate through photographs of animals, habitats, conservation stories, and visitor information.
  4. Stadium Wall — Turn team photography, MVP moments, game highlights, and legacy imagery into a dynamic Picture Flap wall.
  5. Local Placemaking — Celebrate a destination through rotating local photography, artwork, landmarks, food, and cultural icons.
  6. History Wall — Use Picture Flap to share the visual history of a town, city, state, company, or institution.
  7. Heritage Preservation — Add modern, dynamic signage to historically protected spaces without compromising their character.
  8. Split Flap “Flair” Signage — Use icons and recognizable symbols aka “Split Flap Flair” to create intuitive, visually memorable messaging.
  9. Ski Conditions — Keep resort guests updated on snow totals, trail conditions, lifts, and mountain weather.
  10. Marriage Proposals — Turn the big question into an unforgettable mechanical reveal.
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#70. Restaurant and Cafe Branding 

#58. Split Flap “Flair” Signage

  1. Draft List — Display available beers alongside styles, breweries, and ABV.
  2. Restaurant Specials — Rotate through daily dishes, chef specials, seasonal ingredients, and limited-time offerings.
  3. Quick Sign Updates — Change messaging instantly without printing, replacing, or manually rearranging signage.
  4. Landscapes — Transform scenic photography or artwork into a moving Picture Flap landscape.
  5. Gamification — Build games, challenges, rewards, and interactive experiences around changing flap content.
  6. Retail or Dispensary Product Details — Rotate through product names, descriptions, availability, pricing, and other details.
  7. Make it Interactive — Connect an Algorithm to the display to create evolving, generative mechanical content.
  8. Evergreen Text Content — Keep a Split Flap engaging with timeless messages, quotes, facts, prompts, and animations– our Portal library keeps Split Flap evergreen.
  9. Evergreen Color Content — Use changing colors, gradients, patterns, and animations for evergreen color content (like Nespresso’s pixel wall).
  10. Restaurant and Cafe Branding — Reinforce a food and beverage brand through custom colors, fonts, messaging, and analog movement.

#62. Restaurant Specials

#85. Community or Visitor Center Landmark

  1. Stadium VIP Welcomes — Recognize VIPs, special guests, groups, and honorees with personalized stadium shout-outs.
  2. Podcast Backdrop — Create a distinctive branded background for podcast recording and filming.
  3. Brand Photography — Use the display as a recognizable backdrop for campaigns, social content, and brand photography.
  4. Campus Announcements — Share university events, deadlines, reminders, celebrations, and campus news.
  5. Stadium Audience Counter — Track attendance, participation, fundraising, or other live audience numbers.
  6. Restaurant Birthday Wishes — Surprise guests with personalized birthday messages during their meal.
  7. Venue Showtimes — Display upcoming performances, screenings, start times, and schedules.
  8. Auction Board — Show current bids, lots, countdowns, winners, or fundraising totals.
  9. Short-Form Writing — Museums can create kinetic literary experiences with easy-to-read rotating poetry and other short-form writing.
  10. Ticker or Counter — Track changing totals, milestones, statistics, countdowns, or live data.

#4. Coffee Roast Information

#38. Brand Identity

    1. Building Directory — Help visitors find businesses, departments, tenants, floors, or destinations.
    2. Stadium Sponsor Shout-Outs & Countdowns — Sell rotating sponsor space or count down to opening day and other major events.
    3. Stadium Fan Zone Backdrop — Create a photo-ready branded destination for fans outside the action.
    4. Library Events and Programming — Promote readings, workshops, clubs, exhibitions, and community programming.
    5. Community or Visitor Center Landmark — Create a recognizable gathering point that celebrates the identity of a destination.
    6. Retail Staff Picks — Spotlight staff-recommended products, books, gifts, food, or seasonal favorites.
    7. Fun Questions & Prompts — Spark conversation in busy spaces with changing questions, prompts, or “Ask Me Anything” messages, displayed with our ADA-compliant font.
    8. Mad Libs — Let visitors add words that become part of an interactive, ever-changing message  using our large-scale installations and Algorithm.
    9. Investment Tips — Rotate through financial insights, educational tips, market facts, or reminders.
    10. Escape Room Clues — Deliver changing clues, puzzles, or story elements in escape rooms and theme parks.

#42. Analog Concierge

#98. Large-Scale Installation Art

  1. Customer Reviews — Put memorable testimonials and customer feedback in writing on a Split Flap or style them on a branded Picture Flap display.
  2. Today in History — Museums and schools can use our Portal to schedule rotations through historical facts and anniversaries tied to the current date.
  3. Wellness Tips or Guided Meditation — Share breathing prompts, mindfulness exercises, affirmations, or wellness reminders.
  4. Workout of the Day — Display the day’s exercises, sets, reps, challenges, or fitness goals.
  5. Inventory and Counts — Surface operational numbers, production milestones, inventory totals, or company patents (we mount ours over the production room doors!)
  6. Modular Design — Configure a kinetic installation around the dimensions, layout, and architectural needs of a space.
  7. Heirloom Architecture — Pair lasting mechanical craftsmanship with spaces designed to endure for generations.
  8. Large-Scale Installation Art — Use a custom Split Flap or Picture Flap as the medium for monumental kinetic artwork.
  9. Large-Scale Iconic Signage — Create a landmark display designed for impact and legibility from up to 100 feet away.
  10. Window Display — Turn a storefront window into a moving branded installation that catches attention from the street.
  11. Video Call Backdrop — Give demos, sales calls, and virtual meetings a distinctive branded background that invites people to meet the team.

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