On Monday night November 21^st many of the events community gathered at Center 548 to the AFR Networker NYC! Several events professionals added their expertise to make this event fun, beautiful and successful!

From Neuman’s unique food – many “spoons” of full meals – like brunch, turkey dinner and encapsulated miso soup to Nancy Swiezy Event’s flowers and treatments creating unique area’s and the music from New York’s Best, photography by Treasured Memories and of course a great cross section of AFR’s event rental furniture line.

The space at Center 548 was truly a unique loft like space of several floors and a roof area.  The impressive elevator can carry a car up to any floor and it was unique to ride in it as it was set as a lounge environment!

Of course we were there, Pink Powered by Moss and please do view below, our tension fabric entry and backdrops that were used throughout the space and other photos.

A great time was had by all and to all a Very Happy Holiday Season and today – a very Happy Thanksgiving!

The Event Camp Twin Cities as a whole was a couple of days of connecting a lot of technical ideas with event practices, virtual audience and the combination of Pods –remote branches of the conference goers in other cities.  AND a very fun experiment was had by all!  And The EXPERIMENATION was the point of the conference to begin with, and Sam and Ray stressed this throughout their contact with us.

Emilie Barta – tYophe voice of the virtual audience and Glenn Thayer, the master of the airwaves they, together inhabited the broadcast studio provided by Sonic Foundry and Metro Connections.

The studio felt like a news center where the virtual audience was kept engaged and connected to our live portion of our event camp.  Emilie and Glenn interviewed people all day long as made good sense.

I was interviewed by Emilie twice. Ryan Hansen and I talked about the event décor and the fabric décor that my company Pink Powered by Moss brought. And then I spoke about the class I presented – 3d Design in the Future of Events – My class went well – it was  a conversation, a conversation of one…me!  This informative talk was on 3d techniques and trends in Event Design that are currently popular.  You learned about me and my history, working with event design concepts, tools used in 3d design, material and technical trends, current event trends of all sorts of case studies – from tradeshows to technical innovations.

We played a game throughout the event.  It was tough to get started, information overload!  I liked it though. I think the makers should use it in a much more concentrated dose – like over a half day or a day – It will be more successful that way.  It is a good game.

I heard lots of similar stuff – Hybrid Hybrid Hybrid!!!

One of the most exciting things about the Event Camp model is that this group of Event Professionals (#eventprofs) is growing, is experimental, experiential, is passionate, and together we are discovering and uncovering new territory. We are trying different things and speaking to the live and online audience.

So join #eventprofs on our Twitter Chats – Visit and participate in EventCamps and generally remember that Technology is here to stay and LIVE Face to Face Meetings and Events will ALWAYS be necessary but the future of  F2F events will continue to interface between live, hybrid and cyber connectivity.

We knew we wanted to do something a bit different for our ISES Big Apple Awards event and we knew we could!

From the venue and flow, to food and theater production we created an evening of fun and networking, eating and drinking while highlighting our Hall of Legends honorees, C.O.R.E. awards recipients and the winners of the Big Apple Awards. We also swore in our new ISES Board of Directors 2012.

The Big Apple Awards event, held at The TimesCenter, featured an entry created from Pink Powered by Moss’ Ribbonesque, that guided the guests downstairs. The guests arrived into a lounge area featuring Props for Today,s new beach collection. The Hall soon opened for dinner with passed nibbles and food stations with unusual fare by Scoozie Events. The environment was a friendly casual eclectic look, created with Props, The Spoon Group and Dynamic Drape and Decor which achieved the mixing and mingling for networking and fun that we had wanted to create!

The Award Ceremony was in the theater and we moved the audience through the Ribbonesque that was relocated for wayfinding throughout the evening. The Theater featured a Pink Powered by Moss stage set and Proteus Productions did an amazing job with the show. The lighting looked great on the spandex fabric and the show came off without a hitch. Hot on Broadway did a great set and Tom Shillue was a very funny MC.

Howard Givner, our outgoing president addressed the crowd, and I did as well as the incoming president. My speech addressed Our devices and what this has done to our society – and more so how it makes our live connection with people more important then ever. Bentley Meeker, Jes Gordon and Jeff Kalpak were all inducted into the Hall of Legends. The C.O.R.E. (Celebrating Outstanding Results from Events) recognizes an organization that has effectively utilized special events as a vehicle to achieve its goals. This year’s honorees, are the Macy’s Parade Entertainment Group and The Clinton Global Initiative.

You can read where all The Big Apple Awards went to but of course I have to tell you that we TIED ourselves for Best Rental Product with The JuiceBar Charging Station and the EZ Interactive Wall!

After the Awards – Drinks and Deserts set the tone, as our Ribbonesque was again moved to frame the space. Photos were taken, candids, in front of our step and repeat and 5th Avenue Digital’s Ubooth all looked great.

Shien Lee Creative provided cool creative characters, Danny Bergold’s About Entertainment provided Hot on Broadway and in the end – we had to roll up the carpet to get everyone to head home!

A good time was had by all!

I had the job of designing the event and I worked closely with great people, to make it all happen. I want to especially thank Executive Producer Beth Eisgrau-Heller, Paul Neuman from Neuman’s, Laura Longo from Props for Today, and Mari O’Connor who all helped the vision really become reality.  I also want to thank 5th Avenue Digital for their great photo’s!

And the Winners are:

Best Corporate or Association Event • Barkley Kalpak Associates LG Mobile Worldcup

Best Non Profit Event • Elizabeth Rose Consulting Celebration of Courage

Best Social Event • Eventsful, Inc. Marvel Wonders

Best Graphic Design for Invitation, Signage, and Other Print Collateral • Ceci New York The Knot Industry Gala Best Design Decor (Budget over $50,000) Marc-Antoine, Inc. Chairman’s 2010 Holiday Party

Best Design Decor (Budget under $50,000) Claudia Hanlin’s Wedding Library Tuxedo Park Garden Club

Best Table Top Design • ZAK Events Central Park Zoo Dinner

Best Venue • Renaissance Times Square R Lounge at Two Times Square

Best Creative Support Use of Photo/Video • Proteus Productions, LLC Light the Night Walk Video 2010

Best AV/Lighting • Levy Lighting NYC Celebrations Book Launch

Best Entertainment Production • MME Productions FFL Players Association

Best Catered Event • Neuman’s The World in 2011

Best Planner – Social Private Event • Aventina Events – Celebrate the Miracle: Miracle-on the Hudson

Best Planner Corporate Events • Wizard Studios Star Chefs International Chefs Congress

Best Rental Product • a tie! Pink Powered by Moss Juice Bar Charging Station & Moss EZ Interactive Wall

• Gold furniture – the sort of Lux, over the top furniture, White with rhinestones that kind of thing.  Several companies highlighted in this look  - AFR, Lounge22 Powered by Cort, Luxe Event Rentals, and Lounge Appeal.

• Rustic – Country look – Town and Country highlighted their Vineyard Line with lots of distressed countrified Furniture.  This trend also came through loud and clear in the ISES LA Table Top Display Competition.

• Inflatable décor, new players coming in from China, along with AirDD from the LA area and Inflate showing different ways of using self contained fabric inflatables. Also Blofield, this one is inflated chairs that tie into the Lux line of furniture!

• Entertainment – from Elegant Figures as the work of Champaign Creative to a much more Gritty Cirque of Zen Arts, and lots of music, entertainment continues to be a major part of the LA events scene.  I also loved Zoltar – the mind reader in a box – by San Diego Spotlight Entertainment.

• Social Media Lounge – this concept keeps rearing it’s head and it a great addition to a the trade show environment – bringing the digital world together with the real life. This rendition featured Lindsay Fultz of Middle Child New Media (@LindayFultz  ) and Jenise Fryatt from Icon Presentations (@JeniseFryatt).  They really got some great information and connectivity going with education, games and prizes too!

• Unusual venues continue to be popular – several museums – Madam Tussaud’s and the Hollywood Museum participated as well as diverse spots like LA Live.  I must tell you that being across from Lady GaGa was quite a site to see. People are really drawn to the figures. She looked so real. People walked right by my giant fabric sculptures to peruse her realistic wax skin.  Go figure!

Food trends – anyone? What were you seeing out there?

The keynotes both Hilary Harris and David Merrill were very well received as well as Howard Givner’s Event Learning Institute sessions.  AOO’s set design and production added large circular screens at the sides with related material – a great addition to the main stage.

All in all it was a great event.  Pink Powered by Moss were involved in several ways – click here to read about our tension fabric décor and award wins at BizBash West!

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The Tuesday Night Party at The Cosmopolitan – to begin with – check these images to describe The Cosmopolitan environment and from there you elevate into a tropical swim area. In a very nice outdoor space we quickly realize the pool is empty and the plentiful buffet (with no line) was wading (sorry) for us to EAT!

The Marquee was a wonderful venue with nice big spaces but also nooks and crannies. PTE Productions provided entertainment and décor and with great creative catering this is one exciting event!

Technical Producer Jon Adcock of PTE Productions provided the main stage entertainment- beatboxer- Paul “Spazz Box” and video DJ Roonie G. Also opening up for Roonie- Jon’s ProgirlDJs.com DJ Amber started up the evening!

A fun time was had by ALL! Lots of things to look at and listen to and eat! Thank you all the Hosts and Sponsors!

WOW! I just found this wonderful blog about Event Solutions / CaterSource by on Liese Gardner’s Blog FUEL : The Passions that Drive Us and it is chock full of info!

EuroShop is a huge show in Düsseldorf, Germany that focuses on Exhibit design and build, Retail display, lighting, fixtures and details ( Halls of Mannequins, Refrigeration and store security).  This show runs every 3 years for 5 days.

Euroshop opened today – The 26^th of February 2011.  My colleagues and I traveled in Hall 9 and 10 – These halls are focused on the Exhibit industry.  This will be the focus of today’s post.  The trends that I see in this European marketplace includes:

•   Extrusions, Profile or System – this aluminum “channel” has been a mainstay in European stand building, this edition of Euroshop shows many instances of the CURVE!

•   Long Sheer Curtains, Gin Fringe or String Curtain, and scrim both white and black are out in full force. Scrim and Sheers are used as a peek-a-boo look. Now you see it now you don’t!  Many ceilings were created of a mesh screen and many effects were created with Scrim.

•   Layers and Layers – the idea is: flat form cut in succession to create the idea of a full form. This concept was seen over and over again.

•   Colors: many shades of GREEN and some ORANGE, lots of WHITE with Lighting

•   Vertical Tubes or this vertical shapes creating an environment – this effect is very similar to the long sheer curtains, string curtains and scrim.

•   Light Boxes, Light Boxes and more Light Boxes – printed fabrics with Silicon edges creating flat panels

•   I only saw a little – Laser Cutting and Interactive activities, games and social media – both are big in the States!

As I come from fabric structure, décor and design I was particularly interested in a company from Russia called InfinityConst – it has a different look then “American” fabric structures and they do fit into the trend of Curved Extrusion.

Get ready! NEXT! Full environments created “like” retail lounges to show amazing LIGHTING! Tomorrow halls 10, 11, and 12 – viewing and reporting assignment!

EventCamp National Conference #ecnc

There are a group of Event Professionals #eventprofs that are like mind and we come together to discover and discuss where events and technology/social media meet!

The 2011 National edition has left my head full of ideas and info on this concept. For me there is a feeling of the Future is Now and We Really have NO idea of what is going to happen especially with technology. In my opinion we ain’t seen nothing yet!

MY HIGHLIGHTS:

Hank Wasiak @hankwasiak – Asset-based Thinking – Hank was a real MadMan and he continues to work in several mediums including advertising. It was exciting to hear him proclaim that this IS the most interesting time in history in relation to technology.

• @LizStrauss @ChrisBrogan and others presented

• Gaming is a hot topic to engage your audience

• #eventprofs meeting f2f is still very exciting and many relationships are deepening and time marches on

• New faces have joined the eventcamp community and they are welcome with open arms.

• This great community is think tank for the future of events! Great resource!

There are SEVERAL Blog Posts that I would like to link here – So take a look below these pictures!!!

Here are the several Blog Posts and I encourage you to read all about it! I will also make sure to add to the list so come on back!

What I loved about Event Camp! Tahira Endean @tahiracreates #ECNC

85 Takeaways in 140 Characters or Less Liz King Events – @lizkingevents  #ECNC Part 1

85 Takeaways in 140 Characters or Less #ECNC Part 2 Liz King Events – @lizkingevents

Commentary: EventCamp Must Keep Evolving Mitchell Beer    in Corporate meetings and Incentives

Liz Strauss’ story about the fabric that only goes to those who love it!

Event Camp National Conference 2011 Highlights Social Media for Events Heidi Thorne @heidithorne Promo with a Purpose TODAY

What are you searching for (on Twitter)? Christina Stallings @MsStallings    light bulb moments

Everybody is a Champ at EventCamp! KiKi L’Italian  @kikilitalien    Acronym Soup

5 Reasons Why EventCamp Community Rocks My World Michael McCurry    @michaelmccurry    McCurry’s Corner

Lessons from Weekend Camp: EventCamp Deirdre Reid    Avectra Insights from Deirdre

Jessica Levin wrote: EventCamp’s Social Gaming Contest

Virtual Event Logs and Glenn Thayer, the EventCamp Virtual Event Host   @glennthayer

EventCamp Slide Share – lots of decks! Take a look!

Moving towards the #MPI European Meetings & Events Conference that also took place last week…

EMEC and EventCamp and Event Experiments oh my!! Midori Connonly   @greenA_V    Pulse Staging

The Visual Shift | Solution Room Experiment Ruud Janssen  @RuudWJanssen   TNOC – The New Objective Collective

I am on the train coming back from a great couple of days at EventCamp East Coast.  The model is that of an Un-Conference – a safe place for attendees to gather and to exchange knowledge and ideas though user generated content. EventCamp is a conference that has developed through a group of events professionals that have come together through many channels but originally met and are still involved on twitter and the eventprofs #hashtag.

This is the third in what is an ongoing conference series. The National EventCamp will be in Chicago on February 11-13, 2011. The EventCamp East Coast was planned around the format of Adrian Segar Un-conference style that he wrote about in his book Conferences that Work – Creating Events that People Love.

Here are my observations:

Networking

I really enjoyed the style of this smaller more intimate conference. We all were placed on an equal playing field with a beginning roundtable of introductions that allowed us all to hear about each other.

In retrospect I realized that this and other methods employed really allowed us all to get to know each of the 40 people well, better then other conferences that I have been to with 2000 attendees.  It is kind of a fascinating idea if you think about it.

Content Development

The content was developed through ideas that we all brought to the table. Adrian took us through the process that he has developed and that process involved our interests and our knowledge. We all participated in identifying the sessions that we wanted, rated them and added our expertise level if applicable. We did this through writing on sheets of paper.  This all took place over a dinner and cocktail evening of networking. After all the info was in, Adrian worked with a team of several people to identify what each one hour block of time would be for our curriculum for the next day.

Participation

When we arrived to the venue we had our schedule.  At that time I learned that I would indeed be facilitating a class in Design. I recruited the other designers at the event as I knew my session needed to be a focused conversation.  I was happy to jump in and I am excited to explore my topic in a more focused way in the future. This process made me accountable for my topic and although I have been thinking of teaching a class on design this activity catapulted me into ACTION. I appreciate that! And I believe all of us involved in my session had a good learning experience.

Knowledge and Interaction

Overall the sessions I attended went smoothly as I learned a lot, both about the un-conference structure and the knowledge I gained at each session I attended. Another benefit was the excitement I now have about my topic that I am determined to uncover more.  Meeting new eventprofs and continuing established relationships was great and as I said earlier – the quality and depth of relationship that we were able to achieve in this short time was remarkable.

Face to Face Engagement

In my view, this particular EventCamp had a “camp” feel, no fancy props, not a lot of tech, in fact many pens and paper. This crowd is fairly tech and social media savvy and I found our task at hand caused us to “be in the moment” and it kept us all off of our mobile devices and computers.  My point in bringing this up is that we truly all were paying attention to each other and our topics and this proved the un-conference style worked and it once again proved that there is NO REPLACEMENT for Face to Face engagement!

Howard Givner’s observations

Sam Smith’s thoughts

Cameron Toth weighs in

Eric Lukazewski’s POV – Back to Basics part 1

Carolyn Ray says

Mitchell Beers perspective

What Jenise Fryatt has to say

Jenise also says

A different look at it all from Michael McCurry

BizBash‘ speaks!

BizBash speaks again! My back is in this shot!

BizBash NY is coming up the Wednesday October 27^th and I am involved in lots of different ways.  I hope you will come on down!

I started with the Top 10 items @pinkdeb is doing for #BizBash  but realized it was so many more then 10! So here you go!

First! You must VOTE for me as I am nominated for Event Designer of the Year through The BizBash Readers’ Choice Awards

•  I am speaking on the panel for event design with @markaddison @eventstyle

•  I am in booth 611 talking fabric structures and event design!

• I am a Supporter of Event Camp and contributor to the booth design

• I am designing my first tabletop display!

•  I am on the social media committee as a host during our BizBash Expo Pre-Party

•  Host ISES reception on the #bizbash show floor as #ISES board member

• I set up a tweet-up for after the BizBash Expo Pre-Party

• I am tweeting about 10th anniversary, BizBash Expo

• BizBash Expo offers the ultimate showcase of the freshest ideas.

• I am talking and squawking about BizBash Expo—One Day of Inspiration To Last The Whole Year

•  I am visiting the Social Media Lounge

• I am an Event Designer of the year nominee for the Readers’ Choice Awards

• I am a participant in the Social Media Lounge

•  I will judge the participants on the Event Design Educational tabletops

•  I Host new members in the #ISES @isesnyc booth! JOIN NOW!

•  Check in on the #ISES tabletop DESIGN display! I am!

• Vote for me! In the Readers Choice Awards! BizBash – NY Event Designer of the Year!