Showing posts with label Events. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Events. Show all posts

19 December 2013

Take A Shot

Our in-house photographer, Hasisi Park, left us a flash set and I brought my camera and we started taking photos of people for our incredible facebook event. We'd take pictures of visitors and photoshop magazine cover shots with their faces. It was a big hit and people started getting in line to get their photos taken.

At first it was fun, because we could choose who we wanted, funny kids, for instance, or old people whose faces tell incredible stories. But later, as the popping flash light drew people's attention to our booth, we naturally ran out of options. People actually cued up in front of our stall and turned into an assembly line.

We got some great shots, though. For the first time in my life I was called a photographer, and I kind of liked it. I enjoyed the job, even though it wasn't more than a replica of a micro photo studio. But it was fun to interact with people, see their different faces and encourage them to get a little creative.

18 December 2013

Tough Crowd

Eloquence got a booth at this year's Seoul Design Festival. It isn't much and it doesn't look like a magazine booth, but it's our space and our home for the next couple of days. The only problem is, people don't know that Eloquence Magazine is a magazine, and nobody seems to read the writing on the wall. 

All we had beforehand was the dimensions. So we made a plan on how to design the booth, what to bring and how to put things. And it turned out that our plan was worth shit. So we ended up flabbergasted with about two hours to redesign our cube. Mental note to self: always be prepared with a plan b.

We borrowed a weird multi-tentacle violin piece of art, thanks to which people thought we were a art gallery, and hung the three posters we had printed and framed on the right-hand wall. The left-hand wall is where we sat and tried to lure in passers-by. It took two full days to bring some motion into the booth.