The Induction – The Hall of Legends!

I am thrilled to be Inducted into the ISES NY Metro chapter – HALL OF LEGENDS!

(Of course – since I am an event designer I am wondering where is this Hall of Legends and do I get to do the décor? Ok, ok so – what does it looks like? I imagine it as the long hall of photos or perhaps statues)

Hall of Legends - ISES NY Metro

The 2010 Hall of Legends four honorees are:

Walter Rauscher, currently vice president of Ark Restaurants, he spent much of his career at Tavern on the Green. Walter was introduced by Event industry strategist and business growth consultant  Howard Givner

Marcy Blum of Marcy Blum & Associates - founder and president Marcy Blum is an acclaimed event planner and entertaining expert. Marcy was introduced by premiere event designer Preston Bailey

Francis Tedesco CEO of Academy Bus was recognized for his companies’ extensive experience in special event and convention transportation. His introduction was by event and destination management expert Jaclyn Bernstein of Empire Force Events

Debra Roth  – and ME! Formerly CEO and creative director of Pink Inc. I am now Director of Design & Creative Events for Pink Powered by Moss. I was introduced by my friend and colleague Elizabeth Beskin of Fifth Avenue Digital and the Album Boutique

The Induction into the HALL OF LEGENDS occurred at the ISES Big Apple Awards event at The Edison Ballroom. It was a full night of festivities and awards and it was truly a stellar evening!

I know you are all dying to read my acceptance speech so here you go!

You can also read my history that Elizabeth Beskin referred to in her introduction of me. Read it Below!

And also take a read of our ISES NY Metro 2010 President – Howard Givner’s speech on the State of the Industry from the induction night.

“It’s an honor to be here tonight

I have been working for a long time and thank you Elizabeth for the brief history of my
career.

I am one of the pioneers of Fabric Structures as an event medium.
In the last few years I have watched this design form become more and
more known–as Pink Inc has been pushing fabric into the industry and we have expanded our
marketing and now with the help of the internet and modern technology – we all
have many more educated consumers to bring Fabric décor to their events worldwide!

All of that said – I really do want to thank you – the event producers, the event designers,
the exhibit builders and architects that are utilizing fabric architecture in their fields. I
take this as an acknowledgment that you all realize the wonderful qualities of tension
fabric and the limitless design possibilities achieved with this fabric medium.
I also want to thank my staff – whom there have been many over this 30 year period –
as you all know – events is a team sport and I never could have accomplished any of this
without my team.

I wanted to especially thank my staff right now as many of you know that we are going
through a transition. My company Pink Inc.’s inventory and trade name have recently
been acquired by Moss – our largest competitors and we are all now happy to be a part of
the Moss family. I now have my dream job!
There is a table of Moss folk here and I would like to thank them and ask them to stand as
you will be seeing more of us around!

And at that table is also my parents – who of course put up with me and years of my
working on a lot of crazy creative stuff. I really do appreciate them always encouraging
me to follow my dreams! And also my good friend Gina – who has watched Pink Inc,
from day 1!

Well, to my folks, staff, producers, clients and my new work family I am honored and
flattered to be recognized into the NY chapter ISES Hall of Legends….”

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We have known each other a long time – back in Spandex at NYH&R
I went to Art School in Boston – School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston or SMFA for short!
I studied Fine Arts – Sculpture and Performance Art.

I fell into fabric –
I fell into Pink Inc.
It was collaboration with another now well known fabric provider. (Cindy Thompson)
We were still in CollegeAs I sometimes say –
Fabric picked me and so did business

Back in the day – our first opportunities were Museum of fine Arts Boston,
Our performance art was sculptural form moving through space – We soon built
environments for the animated figures, lighting and sound was added to complete the
scene. We grew out of the opportunities, vision and desire.

Moving to NYC (in 1984) I continued to work on Pink Inc and we toured all over USA
and the world – Pink Inc.’s Live Art, Puppetry, Installations kept developing for events
and environments. In 1990 we took our first NYC loft in Soho and in 1998 when we
moved to 23rd street we really buckled down into the event business

Décor rental was the thing – our first special event conferences were in 1993 and
1994 and we continued to morph while we were developing décor. We were also
developing FabricAction and creating large scale installations while we were building
and developing our own brand of event design with Fabric structures

By 1990 my ex-partner had now developed Transformit and we both were gaining power
in the Special Events Industry – In fact in those days Cindy was good friends with Bill
Moss and had cemented a relationship – I had met him during that time as well…

Which brings me to today – I am going to fast forward where Debra and Pink Inc are moving
onto a larger playing field with much opportunity for growth and great career achievements.”

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