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  Foundation for Art and Creative Technology. BitParts digital arts festival information and promotion
 
The event was advertised continuously in a range of formats in UK and US journals.
 
  A series of direct mail items and a final reminder were sent to prospective delegates to encourage pre-event registration.
 
  Branded t-shirts and carrier bags were given away to delegates.
Operated by Incisive Media plc, Dealing with Technology (DWT) is a major annual event for the financial services industry. Between 1995 and 2001 the event had been held in London and New York. In 2005 DWT was returning to the latter city for the first time since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre.

DWT focuses on global trading room information technology solutions through a series of themed presentations and seminars. These are supported by an exhibition where vendors can promote themselves to a focused group of delegates.

Work began in September 2004 and continued for the next nine months. We worked with Incisive Media’s internal team and an external event management consultant, Next Step Forward’s Maggie Cairney.

The design and production work encompassed large scale exhibition panels and signage, conventional printed documents, digital documents and forms.

A simple colour code was was applied to all the collateral to differentiate each event at a glance. Promotional material designed and produced included advertising for US and UK journals, direct mail pieces and reminders. Technical documents for exhibitors describing the venue location, facilities and exhibition stand features, were prepared for distribution in Adobe Acrobat format.

The event organisers required forms for identifying exhibitors’ technical needs for their exhibition stands and for gathering the information for entries in the event directory.

Information material for the events ranged in scale from information panels for each exhibitor's stand to multi-page event directories, t-shirts and carrier bags for delegates.

 

Holding slides, prepared in Microsoft PowerPoint, ensured continuity between the various presentations.

Templates were prepared for letters and press releases. Forms were designed for booking, event guide directory entry and exhibition stand technical requirements.

These templates and forms were prepared in Microsoft Word format for distribution and collection via email. Due to the absence of extensive re-keyboarding of the collected information, errors were reduced, The text only needed subediting before supply to us.

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