Tonight was the 2010 Wella International Trend Vision Awards show at Halle Freyssinet, Paris which saw competitors and guests from all over the world show off and discuss the big new hairstyles and colours for the next 12 months. The event was produced by Jack Morton Worldwide who brought together a huge number of suppliers to create a very successful show. The event ...

Today was the “Go Live” launch of Thompson Reuters’ Eikon Product in The Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Terminal, New York. After a year of planning and preparation the event went with true style and noticeably impressed the clients and potential clients present. The core feature of the event was the innovative video concept by Jack Morton ...

This morning the “LED Room” part of the Thomson Reuters Eikon campaign went live at Grand Central Terminal, New York. The room is part of the three stage campaign for their new financial services product which was introduced with the “Digital Forest” outside the New York Stock Exchange and it’s opening precedes the live launch ...

Last night James was at Selfridges, London for the installation of the new Vertu Mobile sales area. To increase brand awareness of Vertu’s range of mobile phones, which are priced from £3000 to £80,000, they have moved into the short term exhibit area in the ‘Wonder Room’ at Selfridges flagship store. The aim of the exhibit is to show the value ...

After a huge amount of design, planning, pre-builds and testing, the “LED Room” part of Thomson Reuter’s Eikon launch campaign has gone live at Canary Wharf. The campaign has been designed by Jack Morton Worldwide to launch the product in three stages. The first was the “Digital Forest” which was to create intrigue, the second was ...

This morning, after a year of preparation and a successful launch in London, the Thomson Reuters Digital Forest campaign goes live in New York outside the famous stock exchange building. Backed by a huge Thomson Reuters banner, replacing the usual stars and stripes, the ‘trees’ (which are in a different formation to London) continue the brand’s ...

Basic Monkey will be providing James and our new updated Catalyst system to XL Video for this years Wella ITVA Awards in Paris in November. The show has previously been done using Encore and playback systems, however this year the 5 projection screen setup (including one 2 way edge blended screen) lends itself to Catalyst. The show will be run on 3x XL Video systems ...

Today is the start of the new teaser campaign for Thomson Reuters’ new Eikon financial product. This ‘digital forest’ which has been in planning for over a year now is the precursor to more in depth promotion to come. In a prominent position, at the entrance to Canary Wharf underground station and at the foot of the iconic ...

For the past two days, James has been down at Cofton Park in Longbridge to rig LED screens for the Papal visit this weekend. With some serious stage work, a huge crowd area and lots of LED screen from XL Video, this looks to be a major event. The crowd space had 20x PA towers and 6x screens to cater for it! The screens consist of 3x Mitsubishi ...

Today, James is in Hanover for CSP AV to rig and light an exhibition stand as part of the big commercial vehicle show at the Hanover Messe. Due to the limited availability of rigging points, truss bridles were used to get the grid as wide as possible over the stand area. Since the rig will be in place for 4 weeks, budgets are tight and as such ...