We just got news that we won IFAI’s (Industrial Fabrics Association International) Outstanding Achievement Award for Interior Display for our Powerstation booth! This booth made it’s first appearance at The Special Event in Phoenix, AZ before being re-branded for the Exhibitor show in Las Vegas, NV. You can read more about the booth in our blog posts from each trade show. We’d also like to congratulate our team for bringing in an Award of Excellence for the 2010 MTV Music Video Awards in the same category!

Below is a copy of the press release from IFAI (Click here to download release as PDF):

Pink Powered by Moss wins IFAI 2011 International Achievement Award

(Roseville, MN – Oct. 26, 2011) Pink Powered by Moss, New York, NY, was recognized with the 2011 International Achievement Award (IAA) for design excellence in specialty fabrics applications. The ceremony took place at the IFAI Expo Americas 2011 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Md. on October 25.

Pink Powered by Moss received an Outstanding Achievement Award for its Powerstation project. The project was recognized in the competition’s Interior Display category.

The annual IFAI Expo Americas is the largest specialty fabrics trade show in the Americas, and for more than six decades, IAA has recognized excellence in design and innovation, highlighting truly spectacular work in the specialty fabrics industry.

Entrants were encouraged to submit projects and compete in 35 categories in this 64^th competition. In all, IFAI received 385 entries from 16 countries. Entries were judged by industry experts, editors, architects, educators and design professionals, who were selected for their knowledge in a particular field of study or product area. Winners were selected based on complexity, design, workmanship, uniqueness and function.

IFAI encourages specialty fabric projects of all sizes and type. The goal of IAA is to promote awareness of the specialty fabrics used in thousands of products and applications. All entries receive prominent recognition at IFAI Expo Americas. Entrants receive additional publicity through coverage in IFAI magazines, as well as press releases distributed to media professionals.

The International Achievement Awards competition is sponsored by IFAI, a not-for-profit trade association whose 2,000 member companies represent the international specialty fabrics marketplace.

Photos and detailed project descriptions of the winners are available at ifaipublications.com/iaa/.

It is Upfront Season here in New York and we at Pink Powered by Moss have had the opportunity to work on several of them.

The Network Upfronts roll into many locations, however NYC is a major destination for these elaborate events.  The Upfronts show the Networks advertisers and executives the up-coming season. These bar-no-expense (it seems) events do pull out the stops for they are trying to focus on the core of impressing their constituents with original – short yet flashy presentations.

First, early in April we contributed to the Oxygen at Gotham Hall, produced by Steven Yuhasz. For this event we supported the producers with design work and modified several versions of rental items including a curved Flexi Tunnel to fit to the oval-shaped room as well as a curved and stepped Circle Surround flanking the stage on both sides. We also had 6 brand new Quarter Round tables built for this event that are now available for rental and in use in our new SoHo Design Studio and Showroom!

More recently, in Mid-May, we had a busy week putting up a giant curved screen for ABC Television’s big Upfront in Avery Fisher Hall. The framed screen had an enormous presence at the Lincoln Center venue spanning 66’ wide by 18’ high.

Just a day after this screen was installed we had yet another major Upfront event for Telemundo Network at the American Museum of Natural History where the museum and entryway to the Rose Center was turned into a futuristic setting. For this event, we were called upon by Empire Entertainment to create 240’ worth of White Out Walls which lead to 10 new Flexi Tunnels spanning 220’ into the planetarium.

Big thanks to our production facilities in Chicago and Salt Lake City for helping us pull these great jobs off! Check out some of the pictures below and check back later this week for more details and images from these Upfront events!

And Sharing our POWER at the opening of our new Soho Studio and Showroom!

We are glad you have Met us, Seen our Newest Products, Networked and Enjoyed a PINK DRINK!

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Tuesday – Thursday May 10-12 at 3-7pm     588 Broadway #1003    Between Prince and Houston

Check out the details in the Open House Invitation!

Don’t forget to RSVP!

For the past decade the band Bright Eyes has been rising in popularity amongst it’s indie rock fan-base. So how does a band whose melancholic brand of folk and pop fill one of the most famous stages in the world in front of 2 sold out crowds of nearly 6,000 people? Our coves were hard to miss this past week at Radio City Music Hall, providing an intimate setting overhead for the members of the band while providing ideal surfaces for the alternating lighting effects on display throughout the shows.

The folks at Theatrical Media Services, Inc called upon us to provide the stage décor for Bright Eyes current tour, showcasing our Large Coves for these events and also using Crescents in some of the other stops. Our fabric structures are great for concert stage sets as they can easily be built and broken down for each stop on the tour and work great with all different lighting effects.

Click below to see some images and video from Bright Eyes two sold out concerts at Radio City . . .

My Prediction list will continue to grow over the Holidays but here is a start!

• The events industry will continue to build as people need people

• Hybrid events will become the norm as technology expands and people adapt

• Event experiences will continue to get more and more dynamic to engage folks out of their homes and off their computers.

And click on these links for my colleague’s predictions for a WONDERFUL NEW YEAR and DECADE!!!

Fabric Architecture trends from Sam Armijos

Meeting Trends Predictions 2011 from Successful Meetings

From Jeff Hurt – 14 Conference and Event Trends for the next Decade!

From Jenise Fryatt – Engage 365 – 3 Social Media / Events trends to watch in 2011

21 Trade Show Predictions by Mike Thimmesch via BizBash Hive

Pantone – Color of the Year 2011! and it is PINK! (Honeysuckle)

5 Tech World Predictions for 2011

Interesting! – 11 Meeting Industry “Things to Look Forward To in 2011” from Greenfield Services

BizBash’s Mashup of 2011 Predictions 100 of em!

And it continues! Read our post and read Warner Bros. Hillary Harris’ post to find out more!

Warner Bros. used our fabric decor for their LA Screening event!

On Saturday Aug 14^th the culmination of the Celebration V – a Star Wars Convention in Orlando (OCCC) consisting of fans from around the world gathering especially today for “The Main Event” the cornerstone of all the Star Wars activities.

Jon Stewart (of the “Daily Show”) interviewed George Lucas and several celebrity guests of the Star Wars cast including Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia), Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) and R2D2 (himself!)

PiNK Powered by Moss rental fabric structures were chosen for the futuristic ice palace feeling that the designer David Hernandez wanted to achieve. LED and projected lights were added for intense color and variety to the stage set design. Lucasfilms were very happy with the lightweight nature of PiNK Powered by Moss Event Fabric Architecture!

I was unable to attend the event but have included photos that I have gotten from:

CNET has provided a wonderful series of photos!

The Orlando Sentinel – The stage set design overview

The Live Journal – Great Picture of Pink Powered by Moss fabric stage set with George Lucas, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill

ENJOY!

PiNK Powered by Moss was a part of the event team and this photo featured in People Magazine is Kelly Ripa featured in front of our FlexiARCH.

Read more about the event, see more pictures and witness our involvement with Super Saturday on our Blog.

Our Facebook page also covers the event and you can “like” us here.

Wall Street Journal WSJ wrote about Super Saturday too!

Mark Addison Blog and EVENTSTYLE point of view

The NY Metro Chapter of ISES held it’s Big Apple Awards on June 30th 2010, the last day of the fiscal year. Our Pink company had a lot to celebrate with the new Pink Powered by Moss and we won several awards!

Our Three, count them Three Big Apple Awards for:

P&G Beauty Full Circle – with Mark Addision, EVENTSTYLE: ISES Collaboration

Best New Rental Product: The Garden Series for the Architectural Digest Home Show – Merchandise Mart

The Twitter Lounge – with Elizabeth Beskin, Fifth Avenue Digital: Best use of Social Media at BizBash NYC