Adafruit has an interesting twist on the word clock with a vertical layout.
I could not resist. Their version used a laser for the text plate, but simple cardboard for the rest. That simply would not do. Along the way, I changed the wording order and added some light guides internal to the tower to prevent the light from bleeding into the other words. Similar LEDs to the above but only a short strip of 20 of them vs the grid of 64.
These photos are from before I got the code sorted so it is lighting up random leds. I did get it sorted (eventually).