Out of the hundreds of events we covered in 2007, certain ideas stand out from the rest. Here's a look at 10 of the most memorable and innovative concepts we're still talking about.We'll post 10 more next Thursday.
Photo: Lee Salem Photography
A large chalk mural by artists Ernest Concepcion and Mike Estabrook helped spiff up the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's
Downtown Dinner.
Photo: Dan Hallman for BizBash
Amid the many art installations at a
Tiger Beer party in New York, produced by
Joao and
ReadyMade Projects, was James Clar's LED art installation on the elevator, which flickered when viewed with 3-D glasses.
Photo: Jennifer Warren
At Robert Wilson's
Watermill Center gala in the Hamptons, artist Andrey Bartenev designed a living step-and-repeat, with actors interacting with posing guests.
Photo: Patrick McMullan Company
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Bloomberg L.P.'s White House Correspondents Association dinner
after-party featured a curtain by
Design Cuisine of more than 700 custom lightbulbs, each with a filament in the shape of a Bloomberg terminal.
For T-Mobile's
Sidekick ID launch, organizers catered to a young L.A. crowd with edgy haircuts by Floyd's 99 Barbershop.
Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images
At Diffa's
Dining by Design benefit in New York, student designers from the Academy of Art suspended glass globes from a mirror that showed reflections of the entire dining environment.
Photo: Andrew Bicknell for BizBash
Photo: Francine Daveta for BizBash
For the Horticultural Society of New York's annual
Flowers & Design gala,
Prudence Designs turned its table into a color-by-numbers piece, with watercolor sets and outlines on white canvas.
Photo: Marina Fragoso Senra for BizBash