Photog's Booth turned Industrial

so last weekend my styling team and I designed, styled and fabricated a wedding photographer's booth (Kenneth Uy) for the Themes & Motifs Wedding Expo at SMX.

Our peg was this:

 

We wanted to create a Rugged Pop Art concept, since we're trying to veer away from Shabby Chic (which personally, would be soo much fun and easy to make!) since the photographer we're styling is a guy. The idea was crazy! Pop art printed Louis chair, ombre painted walls, bulb chandelier, and floor-lighted brick wall. BUT we also had to make revisions at the last minute since we're trying to make the cost as LOW as possible, and I started doubting whether the pop-art printed Louis chair would still match the corrugated, metal shell (which would be cheaper than the brick, ombre painted wall) and vintage chests I sourced from a friend.

So with limited time (and energy, I just came back from a long hiatus somewhere :) the output turned out to be...

THIS

which I'm still happy with and thinks the effort paid off :)

 

 and YES.

I'm overly obsessed with exposed bulbs, reclaimed wood, random frames, rustic finishes, letters, and wire meshes! and I would keep using them in my projects til I have exhausted them in any way that I imagined them to be! haha OA.  

anyway, here's like the only photo I had with one of my team member and makeup artist friend Elaine Ching, with wedding photographer Kenneth Uy.

xoxo

Features: Exhibit. Updated.

ever since the opening of the PSID Exhibit : Oct 2011, i kinda moved on with the project that i wanted to do something new again! lol. i'm happy with the result but i think too much time during construction and styling made me umay in a way.#confused 

i guess its just like Cooking - once you're done with the dish, you just want to watch people's reaction and never eat much of it. anyway, i know..... im not making any sense (i just had coffee at 10pm - was sleepy the whole day!) 

but looking back at the magazine features we had from December 2011 and having received the

PSID Alumni's Choice Award, 

Overall Best Booth, and People's Choice Awards...

i must say, i'm very much ecstatic + happy + relieved. we weren't aiming for any rewards then, so we we're surprised to receive 3 Awards during graduation :)

anyway, here are the updates:

CONDO LIVING MAGAZINE

 

MY HOME MAGAZINE

REAL LIVING MAGAZINE

 

LIFESTYLE ASIA MAGAZINE

Press. Claire Unabia-James from America's Next Top Model Cycle 10

News is, Our Exhibit has been Extended!

since the SM Group was so please with what we did in their warehouse slash parking lot, they had extended our exhibit until November 7, 2011! :) which is the first among all exhibits that had been held! we're all pleased with their decision (since that equates to no-egress during the holiday) also, we would be able to invite more people who weren't able to visit first time :)

anyway, here's a quick look of our exhibit's Before and After :)

please drop by soon! 

before everything would be pulled out :)

Guangzhou Trade Fair & Manila Fame 2011

This weekend by far, has been one of  the busiest week i had this quarter... *sigh* and i'm still on a jet lag. But it has been pretty productive, educational, and fruitful at the same so i'm not complaining (much) lol. and I'll just make this quick post so i could sleep soon :)

Anyway, last week, after attending some meetings with clients and manning our exhibit, i flew to China to attend the Guangzhou, Canton Trade Fair 2011. I've heard a lot about this place since five years ago, but never had the opportunity to visit, so its also my first time in Guangzhou. and man... was my friends NOT kidding when they told me it's HUGE (see photos)

 tired feet. three days of walking inside the complex, and i haven't really finished everything in 3 whole days!

 

I took this photo from one of the three major complex, can you guess how many people are there during the day?

 and how many booths there are per complex?

i'm not sure if millions is an exaggeration, but if you ask me,  i think its close enough!

 

 i have tons of pictures of products i saw that are sooo drool-worthy... but only picked a few in random to post (i need to catch my zzzz's!)

metallic mosaics *sigh*

 lol. this is so funny :) golden toilets :)

3D wallpapers :) padded with cushion and wrapped in leather fabric.

 

wallpaper tiles and lighting fixtures

too bad though, if you like a particular style or item, you have to order based on their minimum quantity of order. some per container, 10,000pcs, hundreds of sqms, etc. :) but of course, that's what Import and Export is all about! *dreamy eyes* i want to go back to Guangzhou again, i just need to filter my ideas i guess :)

and then after arriving Manila, i went straight to Manila Fame 2011 at SMX (furniture, accessories, expo) like a zombie @.@ since today's also the last day of the fair. As always, Filipino designers never fail to inspire me :) Nobody's allowed to take photos of the products (unless you're buying it) so i'll just leave you with these two good looking mirrors from the fair, which i'm kind of thinking on buying for my project :)

and now... back to the grind! 

*crossing my fingers tight*

goodnight!

before and after: pvc lounge chair

 since we couldn't afford to have any new furniture made, and with the limited amount of time allotted for us to finish our construction, we opted to borrow/get any existing thing on display, hoping it fits/match our concept. 

...and thank God i found this!

just by looking at the frame, i know it has great potential! plus, its BIG enough to occupy the space on the corner we had on our floor plan! *relieved* it just needs some revision... 

(1) powder coat to white, so it can be used outdoors as well as match the material (plastic pvc)

 

(2) weave it with pvc plastics, to match with our design theme (read about it here)

 

again, couldn't be any happier! :)

 

this is sooo comfy to the highest level! i would want to bring this home myself! :)

Design Seminars: Condo Living

from DRAWING to REALITY

birth of the Onion Chair

The main inspiration for our chair was actually Kenneth Cobonpue's Yoda chair (below), because aside from the fact that it blends with our whole Nature-concept (read about the exhibit here), it literally looks like grass popping out of the ground. coolness!

Sketching

we took a lot of time figuring out what we really wanted for our furniture. this was actually sketched in NCTEX 2 hours before looking for potential suppliers... and after talking to many, thank God we found one that doesn't require us to pay a fortune, and was confident to assure us it would finish production in less than three weeks!

The Framing

 

i wasn't really sure how the chair would look like (that time), cos i find the framing too large at a 60cm diameter. so i placed it in front of a table and thought, hey, it doesn't look that bad... and remembered the reason we did a 60cm is because its not ONLY meant as a dining chair, but as an accent lounge chair as well :)

with rattan weaving...

painted in citron color...

Finished Product... say hi to our Onion Chair :)

i'm really happy with the result! *beams* it was for me, a MAKE or BREAK piece in our booth cos i had no idea it would look this nice :) (considering the limited time of designing and production :) and if you happen to drop by the exhibit, or is interested with this chair, we're actually selling it :)

"Nouvelle VIe"

this is our booth from the exhibit :) taken by a real good friend/ fellow designer classmate, John Daniel Garcia.

Nouvelle Vie, French for New Life.

A Scandinavian Dining Room inspired by Nature crafted from recycled plastics (which is 60% of the room) to prove the material's potential to be used as a Luxe and Eco-friendly material.

what we wanted people to feel when they go to our room is that, one could actually feel warm and cozy inside a room that is mostly composed of plastics. combining it with natural materials like wood, stones, rattan, and other organic elements and muting the colors to highlight and play with the material' shadows and textures.

Detail Shots.

 

the Exhibit would also be featured in Condo Living's December Issue :)