please help with project

Hi, I'm a product design student here in Italy. I am working on a project and could use some help. I would like to designing a clock that is split up in 15 minute sections meaning a total of 96. After all 96 light up I need it to start over again from the begining. The first problem is that a LED would make it to big seeing that there would be 96 of them. Is there another option other than using LED's?

Also could someone explain how I can go about doing this. Is something like this on the market to buy? Or do I have to build it myself?

I have attached a couple of sketches to show what I am looking to do.

thank you

There are led bar graphs, 10 leds in a single package, but still 20 leads to solder... 96 LEDs too many? I just did a 54 led light, burned up most of them I think, horriable failure. Just suck it up and use LEDs simplest/cheapest solution, just takes some time soldering. I did mine in a single day, etching a PCB-smoke.

Do you want just one LED on at a time, or have them stay on until all are reset?
One at a time, would be a 4017 counter (need 10 of them), the data sheet will tell you how to cascade them.
Stay on, would be a shift register, there was something in this forum last week...

It would be all on so the shift register I guess.

Here's a link to last week's thread I mentioned...

https://www.electro-tech-online.com/threads/stacking-leds.29035/?highlight=stacker

Couple of circuits, think he was going for 20 leds, but there is no limit to how many stages you add.

thank you for your help but I have found another way to go about my project that is simpler and more efficient.