Standing in the Gare du Nord train station in Paris in 2012, Dorrian Porter was transfixed by a sign. The station’s arrivals and departures board—a classic split-flap analog sign that constantly turns ...

As cool as split-flap clocks and displays are, they do have a few disadvantages. The mechanism sticks out on the side, and the whole thing relies on gravity. Some people don’t care for the visual ...

Split flap displays! They’re mechanical, clickety-clackity, and largely commercially irrelevant in our screen-obsessed age. That doesn’t mean you can’t have a ball making one of your own, though!

PresentationPoint has launched Split-Flap TV in a bid to bring the power and beauty of the traditional split-flap display to a wider audience. By offering the format as a digital display board ...

Recently, I've become enamored with split flap display and have been ideating on a project to create a modular unit that you string together and it displays strings. This is the primary physical ...