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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Setting up Microsoft's 'Shadow Box' booth

I am excited to share the installation video of Microsoft's 'Shadow Box' exhibit!  
This video was filmed using time lapse and took almost 1600 photos in a span of ~ 8 hours. Two 10'x20' custom designed walls made up this 20'x20' booth.  Although the columns in the venue made it difficult to find a good spot for the camera - we were able to capture the set-up of one of the walls.  It took a crew a full day to install the carpet, exhibit structure, signage, lighting, AV and one day later it was all dismantled again.  If you every wondered what it takes to set up an exhibit here is an example:
Microsoft 'Shadow Box' exhibit Installation

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Microsoft Canada's 'Shadow Box' Booth

I was just able to get some photos from our newest build - we call it Microsoft Canada's 'Shadow Box' exhibit.  These images are from a recent Future Shop event that took place in downtown Toronto.  Our crew set up this custom designed exhibit in a day (I should have a video of the installation up by next week). The walls are about 10' high and 20' wide.  The white panels are a high gloss laminate - while the back-walls were inspired by "shou-sugi-ban" a japanese wood burning technique http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/2323908/list/-Shou-Sugi-Ban--Is-Setting-the-Siding-World-on-Fire. With only 3 weeks to design and build this booth - everyone was excited to see it come together.




















Thursday, June 14, 2012

Are we there yet?

Are we there yet?  The short of it is - not quite.  The long story is - that creating a new blog page was easy.  Making sure everything is perfectly aligned, has the right widgets, the right imagery, the right settings is not.  Getting caught up in the technical aspect is not really where I wanted to end up.  

The Exhibit Solutions blog has been created so that we have a place to share experiences, educate, showcase designs, share 'things' (art/design/technology/innovations) - essentially anything exhibit, event or trade show related that we get excited about.  As a boutique exhibit house we are small enough to engage the whole team and our clients in discussions over advancements in booth lighting, new fabric graphics, green flooring, and the list goes on.  The fun part is that we are big enough to actually try these things out in our booths.  So - with that said, I look forward to sharing our story with you and in time I will master the page alignment and blog widgets too.