Pink Powered by Moss sponsored by bringing a little bit more green into this market place by placing different fabric structure rental products from our Garden Line throughout the site. Colorful Daisies flanked the bar area while our Multi-colored Money Trees could be found on the perimeter of the floor, overlooking the World Trade Center site.

While there was much to celebrate at the event itself, some of the neighbors in the World Trade Center had it’s own milestone to celebrate as well. Recently, the Freedom Tower, just became the tallest building in New York, surpassing the Empire State Building, which held that honor for just over a decade since the Twin Towers were destroyed in 9/11. The footprints of those towers; which now feature cascading waterfalls as part of the memorial, could also be seen below.

Some pictures from the event as well as the views are below . . .

On Friday March 3oth, the first ever TEDx Wall Street took place at the New York Stock Exchange. Pioneering thought leaders, including Jim Cramer, spoke to an audience of 300 as well as a global audience via webcast revolving around the topic of “Redefining Success” within the Wall Street community and beyond. For those not familiar with TEDx, it is a program created by TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) in which local and self-organized events bring people together, usually honing in on one subject, and are shared throughout the TED network.

We collaborated with Levy Lighting in order to create a dynamic stage set design. Flanking the main presentation screen on both sides were two 8′ wide by 12′ high towers of Wave Form that were projection mapped with video content relating to Wall Street and other issues touched upon throughout the conference. LEDs were also used to internally illuminate Pinkometry products such as Pillars, Trigons, Monoliths, and Quadrigons adding extra intrigue to the stage. Take a look at some photos below and you can click here for some videos from the conference!

It may be warming up outside, but that didn’t stop us from going to the skating rink a few weeks ago for the Skating Club of Boston’s annual Ice Chips festival which showcases sine if the best-known names in figure skating from around the globe! This year marked the 100th anniversary of Ice Chips and the Skating Club of Boston wanted to make this edition very special.  A dazzling display of colors and lights joined the skaters on the ice as well as the fabric decor that we provided on one end of the rink which served as entryway as well as projection surfaces.

A 90′ stretch of  rental products, including Crescents, Continental Divides, Wave Walls, and a 12′ Moon in the center, were on the rink – all dressed in stark white fabric. The combination of lights and reflections off of the ice, made for quite the spectacle; see for yourself:

On March 17th & 18th the innaugural BUKU Music and Art Project took place at Mardi Gras World in New Orleans. This newcomer to the music festival scene boasted two days filled with some of the top names in hip-hop and electronic music between 2 main stages and a late night tent. The site allowed spectators to take in views of the Mississippi River while being able to catch some of their favorite artists such as Skrillex, Avicii, SBTRKT, Wiz Khalifa, Diplo and plenty more.

Winter Circle Productions contacted us to see if we would be able to help provide decor to the festival in several different areas. We were happy to comply and ended up using a combination of framed structures and stretch shapes throughout the site. Internally illuminated Pinkometry was scattered throughout the site and could be found in the media room where interviews and photo sessions took place as well as the late night stage set in the outdoor tent. Massive 40′ x 40′ Comets could be found overhead in that tent as well adding intrigue to the large space.

Big thanks to Max Rasche for reaching out to us and helping document this festival, you can find more of his photos from the festival at the BUKU Facebook Page! Thanks also to all those who helped with the installations!

The 2012 addition of The Event Solutions Idea Factory brought a collaboration of  Pink Powered by Moss and AFR in the CaterSource Lounge!  We created an environment with Ribbonesque Arches floating over AFR’s rental furniture.  Take a look at the effect we created!

My Recap – of the Event Solutions Idea Factory 2012!

Also view the  The AFR – Event Furniture Rental Recap and read about our experience from AFR’s POV!

With just two days notice we agreed to sponsor the CaterSource Magazine Lounge. We recruited Deb Roth from Pink powered by Moss to offer us Ribbons and Phyliss from Eventricity in Glenside, PA to do the florals.  We showcased our Function line with the Extravaganza slip covers and previewed two other slip covers- Titan and Saffron which are currently only available in Florida, but may be available in additional markets very soon.

See you out at another great events conference soon!

Event Solutions Idea Factory: I have been a part of this show for years. It is now part of a larger show, CaterSource. Right now, it has the feeling of being buried inside of a catering show. But it continues to change. For better or worse, it is what it is and here I will tell you of the highlights of the Event Solutions Idea Factory!

I diligently walked the show floor with Mark Musters and his banter about his new site My Sustainable Style. We talked sustainability with many and tasted and experienced all kinds of foods and events products. From smoked salmon to cupcake cozy’s there were many products geared towards reuse and innovation.

Pink Powered by Moss brought in Ribbonesque to highlight the CaterSource Lounge with AFR event furniture. Additionally AFR brought their prize winning booth from TSE, Backdrops Beautiful showed large with several of their backdrops and Champagne Creative jumped up a notch with their Champagne Skirted women, wearing edible chocolate fashions!

The highlight for me was experiencing Projection Mapping, through the Spotlight Awards Ceremony (short, sweet to the point – an excellent presentation) and through a workshop. I was happy to meet Bart Kresa from BartKresaDesign – a projection artist and Ray Thompson from Images by Lighting.

ELI – Event Leadership Institute was there in force – Howard Givner and his team continue to educate through live sessions at the show and most importantly through innovative online education.

David Tutera and Preston Bailey did (once again) great presentations and they really draw a big social events crowd.

I continue to go to meet new event professionals but also to connect with the best in the biz. Frank and Lyn from Concept Bait were there, David Merrell and his team presented, Hillary Harris from Warner Bros events and the MGM events group all were at Event Solutions!

The Diva Design Challenge with Cheryl Fish “against” Sasha Souza was fun and funny. It is AFR’s second year with the live battle of the event designers! Great concept right on the show floor!

While there, Dazian announced they had just purchased Dreamworld Backdrops, one of the original backdrop companies in the Special Event market. Expect to see rental backdrops coming out of the Dazian catalog. Congrats Bev and the Dazian team!

An #Eventprofs tweetup brought together some of the best in the biz! Liese Gardner @liesegardner, Jeff Hurt @jeffhurt , Midori Connoly @avgirlmidori and Jessica Levin @jessicalevin, to name a few. I of course was there @pinkdeb, just in case you didn’t know!

What I do love about Event Solutions is their ability to learn and try different things. They are building on their own innovations, which allows things like: a free to all, 1.5 hour awards show built through amazing projection and mapping technology. Heck, the awards show even ended early! And it led to a small private party at Cosmopolitan (my new FAVORITE hotel in Las Vegas) So, getting shaken up can lead to great ideas and innovation and that is what has me watching Event Solutions carefully and coming back for more!

It’s been just over a year since we first debuted the JuiceBar at The Special Event in Phoenix, Arizona. Since then, this charging station has made it into our Rental Catalog and has been seen at several different events.

Whether you call it a charging kiosk or a portable charging station, the Juice Bar is the only easily branded charging station available for rent in the event marketplace. Phone and device charging stations bring people into your tradeshow booth.  At events with long days, your event goers are always happy to get their electric charge. It is amazing how you can fill a need by allowing people to recharge!

We thought you may like to see for yourself . . .

In addition, these arches can be REarranged in several different formations giving you a completely different look. We brought out 2 More and 2 Less for TSE and rearranged our booth each day to demonstrate. Take a look at some of the photos below as well as some additional options on how to REconfigure this versatile product!

Another one of our REconfigurable products that was seen at The Special Event was the newly introduced Wave Forms. So far we’ve shown this product as a booth at LDI, and as a stage set at EDPA, but this was our first time showing it as an entryway, and over the course of 3 days we continuously REarranged the individual fabric structures to create as many different sculptural forms as possible.  We showed them here in both pillow-cased fabric over the entire frame as well as a fabric skin applied to the front surface only. By simply rotating individual units and shuffling the sequences, completely different appearances are attained. View some photos below to see some of the outcomes . . .