Holiday Planning
Visual tools are so helpful when planning out an installation. It focuses our time and energy on the necessary elements needed, but it helps our clients envision the end result. Here is an example of how graphic illustrations come to life.
This is the option that was chosen for Ala Moana Center’s stage holiday decor.
Here is the final look!
A few tweaks here and there and it’s a perfect fit.
For more planning ideas, take a look at our other post Ala Moana Center Stage. We use a working model for this year’s Shop a Le’a event.
lucyd-dreams (via andrew sea)
What an amazing display (creator unknown). The umbrella is a tool that only comes out when we need it but utilizing it in a grand way is dramatic.
Great idea for a window display. Different colors can correlate to different seasons.
Source: j-p-g
Ala Moana Center Stage
We’re going through some of our past work and uploading to Flickr. Since we just completed a stage build out for Ala Moana Center (AMC) a couple of months ago, we wanted to share previous concepts that we created for them.
Ala Moana Center Stage-Before
Ala Moana Center Stage-After (2008)
AMC launched the first annual Shop a Le’a in 2008. This Spring shopping event was a weeklong promotion focusing on fashion, beauty, wellness, family, travel and cuisine.
Creative Solutions was tasked to create a dynamic stage presence that tied into their advertising campaign. We wanted to transform the stage into a space that looked completely different.
Since so many fashion retailers were participating we decided to go with a clean “runway” look. Tying in the advertising we utilized the campaign color pink as a trim. Everything from the flower beds to the overheads were remodeled into a chic package highlighting the week’s events.
Shop a Le’a 2009-working model
In the Spring of 2009, we partnered again with AMC for the 2nd Annual Shop a Le’a promotion. Again, transforming the space was key and this time we wanted to create a 3 dimensional space.
Our inspiration was the Eames House of Cards (no pun intended…GGP had just filed bankruptcy when we were designing it).
The above images are working models we created for the stage. This helped us determine the correct proportions to be built as well as spacial planning.
Shop a Le’a 2009
Due to the scale of the stage and the surrounding environment, enlarging the “cards” gave the stage dimension and an interesting architectural point of view. It also allowed the stage to be flexible. If needed, cards could be moved around and reconfigured.
Happy 50th Birthday, Ala Moana!
We were honored to be a part of Ala Moana Center’s 50th Anniversary celebration. We were asked to create a high impact, festive decor for Center Stage. We’ve worked on the stage before and this time wanted to have a bold look to match their advertising. Knowing that this event would be documented for posterity, the stage had to be transformed to create stunning photo opportunities.
It’s always challenging to bring 2-dimensional advertising campaigns into a 3- dimensional space. Seeing the bold color palette and graphic design we did a literal translation to the stage backdrops.
I like doing puzzles, but on this large scale it was a tough task!
Once pieced together the white floor and background really popped the colors. Check out our other Ala Moana installations to see the “before” of the stage.
Tenants that have been with the center from the beginning were honored on center stage.
CREATIVE SOLUTIONS, HI FLICKR PAGE
Been working on uploading some past projects. Why didn’t I do this when we first started?! (I don’t think Flickr was around yet). Keep checking back, this will be a constant endeavor. Click Here to view or click Flickr on the right side of this page.
