Held on February 7 at Toronto's Fairmont Royal York, the fund-raiser for the Toronto Public Library Foundation had entertainment inspired by novels. One of the pieces, based on a book called The Painted Girls, featured a ballerina speckled in gold body paint and an artist working alongside her.
Photo: George Pimentel Photography
Charity:Water Gala
At the December 10 event at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York, staffers roaming the venue sold helium-filled balloons to guests for on-the-spot donations. Guests could release their balloons into a giant Jerry can-shaped netting structure. The concept was designed to allow people to visualize their donations in a whimsical way.
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To promote its first book, blog Design Sponge toured the West Coast in 2011. At a book signing in Los Angeles, guests could pose in front of—and draw on—a chalkboard backdrop created by event and styling production company Bash Please.
Earlier this year at TEDActive, the official TED conference simulcast held in Palm Springs, TEDx planners from around the world expressed themselves on an interactive chalkboard wall.
Photo: Marla Aufmuth
In 2006 at the Robin Hood Foundation benefit, designer David Stark created towering hand-drawn sketches depicting New York scenes across more than 35,000 square feet of chalkboard. Guests could add to the work with bowls of chalk placed on the highboy tables throughout the cocktail area.
Photo: Susie Montagna
At the National Stationery Show in May, black-and-white stripes accented a stationery suite printed on a chalkboard-style background from Something Detailed.