Drapers Fashion Awards

The Drapers Awards are one of the most prestigious awards within the fashion industry. On November 18 the 2009 Drapers Awards were held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, bringing together more than 1,000 industry leaders to celebrate the achievements of the most innovative and passionate fashion retailers and brands within the UK and Ireland.

Berry Place has been providing Emap Events with the Drapers award for seven years, with a change in colour or finishes each year to keep them fresh and distinguish them from previous years. This year is a fetching silver spangle on black, a departure from the translucent colours of earlier awards but still providing a little extra dimension.

http://www.drapersawards.co.uk/

Client - Emap Events

London Technology Fund Awards 2009

The second London Technology Fund Awards were held on November 4th at the City headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland. For the awards Berry Place created encapsulated acrylic tombstone awards and the Grand Prix 'Eddie' Award. The 'Eddie' was sculpted from designs by Busara and is an amalgamation of characters created to represent each category in the competition.

The London Technology Fund Competition was established in 2008. The success of the 2008 programme led to a repeat of the competition in 2009, with an expanded programme of workshops and additional major technology corporates joining the innovative corporate "speed-dating" event. The programme runs for nine months and its purpose is to help innovative young technology companies in London understand and address the key issues they face as they develop their products for a global market, forge relationships with larger corporate partners and attract the funding they need. The Competition culminates in the announcement of the overall winner of the Grand Prix, at an Awards Ceremony and Reception, attended by some 200 representatives of major corporates, investors and government as well as entrepreneurs, academics and professionals.

David McMeekin of the London Technology Fund and Dr David Bott of the Technology Strategy Board presenting Gary Bower of Trojantec Ltd with the Grand Prix 'Eddie' Award.

For more information on the London Technology Fund Competition click here to visit their website.

Client – London Technology Fund

Creating Kiwi

The 9^th annual Toast Festival took place at Clapham Common over the weekend of 26th - 28th June, the largest celebration of New Zealand, Austrailian and South African culture this side of the equator.

The Kiwi day, sponsored by Air New Zealand, offered a chance to win two Premium Economy tickets to NZ to those who participated in their promotional event.

Integrated advertising agency Albion London, currently responsible for the Airlines marketing campaigns, devised a competition on their behalf which required entrants to place a flag on a 3D map of New Zealand in the hope of being the nearest to a buried 10c coin.

Berry Place were commissioned to supply an accurate 12m x 5m Styrofoam map, cut to the precise outline of the islands and fully covered in genuine turf!

Installation of the feature took place within a narrow time slot to avoid disruption to other aspects of the festival. Berry Place were on hand to make this happen, ensuring it was secure enough to handle the hundreds of members of the public expected on the day.

Client - Albion London

Images kindly supplied by Albion London.

Berry Space

To promote the launch of their J&B Whisky ‘Start a Party Anywhere’ marketing campaign, drinks Company Diageo has sent a disco mirror ball spinning into the stratosphere for the first time.

"Sending a mirror ball into the stratosphere shows the world we know how to start a party anywhere, anytime."

With a small modification carried out by Berry Place the ball sported the J&B brand logo, which was then passed onto scientists from Cambridge University's space flight team who sent it on its way attached it to a helium-filled weather balloon. A camera attached to the balloon caught the ascent on video and can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ILColwqvo.

Client - JKR