GRAVITY FREE: 2007   “THE GEOGRAPHY OF CURIOSITY”

 

 


              Media Partners
 

Dwell was created to champion an intelligent, thoughtful, and modern sensibility that stimulates our audience to envision — and realize — life at home in the modern world. Dwell champions an aesthetic in home design that is modern, idea-driven, and sensitive to social and physical surroundings.
www.dwell.com


Fast Company sets the workplace agenda, charting the evolution of business through a unique focus on the most creative individuals sparking change in the marketplace. By uncovering best and "next" practices, the magazine helps a new breed of leader work smarter and more effectively. The award-winning business magazine is read by some of the most innovative and successful executives that are creating the future of business.
www.fastcompany.com


            Newton Sponsors
 

With its mission to inspire the inventive genius in everyone, The Museum of Science and Industry is an iconic presence in Chicago and the largest science center in the western hemisphere. First to introduce interactive exhibits, it now houses 14 acres of hands-on educational environments experienced by almost two million people each year. Public programming includes costumed program interpretation, daily science demonstrations, learning labs and lectures. Among its major exhibits: The U-505 Submarine, The Coal Mine, Baby Chick Hatchery, Genetics: Decoding Life, and Take Flight.
www.msichicago.org

Pentagram is organized and run so that designers may achieve their best - because design at its best satisfies clients, pleases users and gratifies the designer. We design print and screen graphics, products, environments and buildings. We believe that ideas make design distinctive, and that identity, function, aesthetics and value make design work. We remain independent and owned by our partners, who are all designers.
www.pentagram.com

Impact Unlimited focuses on discovering the confluence of audience understanding and client value to inspire the ultimate designed experience. Interactive, graphic, environmental, and theatrical are the in-studio talents that form the creative synthesis of all we imagine for the attendees and participants of live events.
www.impactunlimited.com

Michael Vanderbyl has gained international prominence in the design field as a practitioner, educator, critic and advocate. Since being established in San Francisco in 1973, his firm Vanderbyl Design has evolved into a multi-disciplinary studio with expertise in graphics, packaging, signage, interiors, showrooms, retail spaces, furniture, textiles, and fashion apparel.
www.vanderbyldesign.com


            DaVinci Sponsors
 

SFC Graphics has been adding color to the world of advertising and graphic communications for over 100 years – delivering both traditional and non-traditional print solutions for its corporate, agency and publishing clients. The company continues to innovate with technological advancements that deliver measurable value with real-world solutions in a number of diverse environments and industries.
www.sfcgraphics.com

Transformit collaborates with exhibit, architectural, event, interior and retail designers to create dynamic tension fabric solutions. We bring your vision to life with our innovative techniques. Specialties include: the creation of complex shapes and forms, layering, creation of tone-on-tone pattern, integration of lighting to create illusion, shadow or reflection, juxtaposition of fabrics with opaque, translucent and reflective qualities, and integration of graphic imaging.
www.transformitdesign.com


            Celestial Sponsors
 

The D4 banner stand's tensioned wires let you display banners of varying sizes and proportions. Its stylish designer looks make it the perfect display system for corporate events and receptions and a steel baseplate ensures stability, making it ideal for semi-permanent signage in museums, galleries, trade shows, stage sets and retail environments. Our banners can be printed on a variety of materials using high quality digital inkjet technology.
www.d4displays.com

Design their experience, use ours: From exotic props to everyday presentations, the experts at Champion employ the latest in software and technologies: 360° photography, custom software development, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, DreamWeaver, Lightwave, and 3D modeling packages. From concept to rendering to custom fabrication and installation - Champion develops designs to support winning shows and events.
www.champion-nationwide.com



            Book Club Sponsors

Burkhardt Leitner constructiv develops, produces and distributes modular architectural systems for temporary constructions in the fields of trade fair and display, office and public space, museum and exhibition. The high functionality of our architectural systems is based on their logical, self-explaining construction principles. Their flexibility and modularity offer freedom of design. Reduction and clarity in form are our guiding principles in the aesthetic design.
www.burkhardtleitnerinc.com

Las Vegas-based GES Exposition Services, a subsidiary of Viad Corp (NYSE: VVI), services every major exhibition and event market across North America and the United Kingdom through the GES Worldwide Network. GES provides a wide range of services including exhibition planning and design, turnkey and custom exhibit rentals, material handling, staging, overhead sign rigging, temporary electrical equipment, signs and graphics manufacturing, installation and dismantling labor, carpet and furnishings, and transportation services.
  www.ges.com

 

 

GRAVITY FREE provides unique partnership opportunities for organizations seeking to strengthen their strategic relationships with the design community. Such partnerships benefit from the high-level context appropriate to significant brand association combined with unparalleled conversational access to design leadership. Partnerships also benefit from their connection to a wide spectrum of designers responsible for partnerships with key vendors and suppliers, in projects of significant scope. As such, GRAVITY FREE provides unique access and recognition designed to further ongoing corporate initiatives and objectives.

 

GRAVITY FREE is produced by EXHIBITOR Magazine, sponsor of the world’s premier Exhibit Design Awards competition.

 

To learn more about partnership opportunities for GRAVITY FREE: 2007, please contact John Pavek at jpavek@exhibitormagazine.com, or call 507-289-6556.

 

 

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