Final days - before the exhibition

The Last final touches were set, the LED lights had finally arrived, and the little touches of the lights looked very visually appealing and could help make the portfolios and self-projects look more interesting. The idea of the flooring was scrapped and is going to be replaced with carpeting. Hopefully the carpet will complement the rest of the room. The computers were finally up and running too, the logo was ready; everything was set up for the Collective rooms. Hopefully the room will capture the people’s attentions.

My favorite part of the rooms are probably the feature wall, and the hanging table, those things will stand out most definitely, hopefully it won’t distract the viewers’ attention too much and not keep an eye out for the students work. The whole exhibition was a new learning experience, it was stressful, but it had its ups, I mean it was fun and interesting at the same time I am very much happy with the end result.

So finally it came up to clearing up things, and recycling them the fun stuff, people know, after the exhibition is closed all this has to be dismantled. I really hope they keep the feature wall, I’d be mad if they take it down, because it looks so great up there, than just that plain white wall. However, we will be dismantling after all this, so all that hard work, gone. I wonder how we are getting stuff out thinking about it, but I guess there’s going to a lot of sawing and cleaning involved.

Also here are some cool photos of the pre-to-present photos. 

Day 11-12 - final touches

Flooring was something we were struggling with till the very end; someone came up with the idea of painting the floors charcoal black. I personally didn’t like the idea, I told some others I didn’t like the idea, but who knows it might turn out good. I was helping with the finishing touches inside the room, while the others were doing other roles, just in case we needed to hang things, test proofing and all that other good stuff to make sure the room won’t fall apart, but thankfully the room passes the test, the hanging table, is pretty much secure, that’s what was worrying me most, hopefully no one decides to think it’s a place to sit down. 

Day 10 - Exhibition Polishing off

Today we decided to start coating the wood with varnish, I honestly liked the old natural look to it, but it was not a bad idea and if the majority of the students agree it has to be varnished, than let it be varnished. At the end of the day, although intoxicating it might have been the pallets did have a nice new personality to them.

In the other room we were finishing the sanding off everything was finally coming together, and hopefully it would stay like that this time.

The end result was pretty cool. At the end of the day, everyone could tell that the rooms are finally coming along nicely; it was a much better and cleaner result. 

Exhibition construction - day 7-9

Eventually the idea helped us construct other things that fit with the design of the room such as the railings and tables, both of which took time to construct, we had the idea of putting a very similar theme to the other room, and we used different shapes which helped make the room more interesting in approach. Everything was meant to be constructed out of natural objects such wood or metal and the pallets was a great asset for the theme. We made the table hang by cables; the table fit perfectly, looks interesting and caught plenty of passerby’s attention.

Exhibition construction - day 4-6

We decided to use construction tools in order to create these pallets into usable stands. The stands are going to be used for the use of placing our portfolio. This idea was a way to make the use of these pallets more interesting, the original concept for the use of the pallets was to idea was to cover the windows with these installments, but it grew into a more creative and artsy idea and we adapted it to other ideas to help create a more favorable feeling across the room. 

Pallets were later put in smartly to level the average height, in order for the audience to feel comfortable by the way the pallets were constructed. This was in order when taking out the presented work and putting it back on. 

Exhibition construction day 2-4

The original concept a lot has changed, the clean and organic life to the portfolio was difficult to maintain especially for something like moss, the original concept would have worked, but it retained a powerful smell which would not be very appealing to the audience. So we brainstormed a new idea, this newly built idea is a much stronger concept and looks more appealing. It took much more time and effort; however it is being sorted and is looking very appealing. The idea of using wooden pallets even though it’s a cheap material, the beauty of an exhibition is to make things look attractive. 

Exhibition research : 3D rooms

These are some 3D test models, to  showcase what we originally wanted the rooms to look like, however the idea did change.  The rooms mainly stayed with the same overall concept, the only difference is the walls and flooring has completely changed from black to other elements and or colours, the flooring is going to be made out of wood, and the walls have been altered to white instead of black. This makes more sense with the room, because of the colour palette chosen. The coloured walls in the other room is nearly the same, the coloured walls on the sides are actually hung up banners to help promote the students work further.

The artwork and stands are going to be lit with LED  strips, this helps portray different moods to the room, remember each colour represents a different mood, however we need to be careful applying this method, especially since people might feel uneasy due to the many different colours in the room. 

Exhibition Fundraising part 2

As mentioned previously, one of the fundraising projects was to create father’s day cards; here are a few cards that got chosen from the majority. Since father’s day is around the corner, these cards will help out. Particularly, because of the location, we will be selling them at such as the campus, when the students are going to be in campus receiving their results we are going to take this as an opportunity and sell the cards. If we decide to take this further, we might be selling these cards, to public places, because of any remaining cards and so on.

The reason why we did this father’s day card event, is because the mother’s day cards worked out very well, it would be great if this assist us further with the fundraising, because even if we have enough money for the exhibition, it is always better to have a few extra money in store just in case things break, or someone adds in to an idea, which would cost us more.

Exhibition: Sponsors

Sponsors mainly help with gathering resources for practically free. What is in it for the people trying to sponsors you?  People like to be advertised, and if the items you would want is to  particular interest too many others for example: an item such as decoration like plants, a lot of people are interested in gardening, or plants, it is something people can start and learn about and it is not restricted to anything, so if a person does like the decoration and is thinking to decorate their homes, they would want to know where to get it from, this helps the sponsor by attracting more costumers without doing any forms of campaigns to market or advertise themselves. There’s plenty of ways to get sponsors, one is to mainly ask around or get someone to help get sponsors for you.  This someone maybe is a person who knows tactics more, or knows people from the businesses you are trying to get objects from. 

In our exhibition,  we are trying to receive ferns, tires, wooden pallets, paint, lights and so on, each are coming from different companies, and we have managed to mainly get all these things from different businesses, with either a return back, or they have freely given them to us, just approach smiling, friendly and ask them if they could help with sponsoring these items and if they can great, if not move on to other companies, it is always better to try and save money, even if you are not a student. 

Exhibition : Fundraising

To set up an exhibition, one needs to use money, whether it is to buy paint, lights, construct things, nothing is free, but fundraising is an option that can aid you set up a better exhibition. Fundraising can be done differently, for example: throwing a party with popular DJs (the exact prices need to be negotiated with this person, for example 20% of every ticket sold). It could be a simple event such as water balloon fights, selling drinks, foods or sweets and so on. Fundraising is better done in a group in terms of management and raising money; it also helps out if you could also advertise the exhibition while you’re trying to gather the money. 

As creatives we decided to create father’s day cards and sell them to students and other individuals along the way. Not only does fundraising helps you collect money, but it also a way of advertising yourself the exhibition it might even get you fans, because of the particular interests they would have with the topic.