An event - neon meets books

No sooner had I made the neon bunting than I got a call from Clarisse Coetzee with regards to an event with a neon and white theme.  It all looked amazing and various people as follows where involved.

Some of the elements featured in the pictures:

Menu’s made out of Media24 sample books - Elsje Burger & Cara Brink

      Over sized rosette made out of cardboard - Elsje Burger & CaraBrink

      Recycled table legs converted into candle sticks – Cornelia Badenhorst

      Paper maché trophies – Hendrik Coetzee

      Newspaper table runners - Elsje Burger & Cara Brink

      Bunting made from book pages – Keri Muller

      Table number holders made from old books – Keri Muller

All contact details at the end of the post

All Photography below by Annemieke Goldswain-Hein www.blink-photography.co.za

Project team:

Clarisse Coetzee – Project Manager & Event Coordinator - clarisse@clarissecoetzee.com

Cornelia Badenhorst – Stylist – corneliab@mweb.co.za

Hendrik Coetzee – stylist’s assistant – hendrikcoetzee@gmail.com

Elsje Burger & Cara Brink– product designers & paper artists

elsje@meanttobe.co.zacarabrink@hotmail.com

Keri Muller – Neon pink dip-dyed bunting – kerimuller@gmail.com

Annemieke Goldswain-Hein – photographer – info@goldswain-hein.com  www.blink-photography.co.za

Annalise Buchanan – catering – ab-cater@iafrica.com

Urban Tonic – hiring – ak@urbantonic.com.za

A special dinner party

I was involved with creating a number of interesting items for a dinner being held by Media24 and organised by Clarisse Coetzee.  The event was held at Babylonstoren in Franschhoek.  All the guests received a small gift which was either a paper flower rosette or a bow tie that I made from newspaper.  Additionally I also made 100 metres of bunting from newspaper and ribbon to string between the trees  - unfortunately the weather did play along so it went inside over the table which worked just as well.

The best element I thought where the old fashioned newspaper boy pop-up place cards - I used an old fashioned type writer font for the names. The rolled books also work incredibly well for holding the menus and table numbers.

Clarisse Coetzee was the organiser of this event and as per usual it all went brilliantly - thank you for involving me again Clarisse - it is always a pleasure to work with you on these creative evenings.  Clarisse's details for any event organising clarissecoetzee (at) gmail.com

Look at the magical shadows...

Media24 book division - dinner at the Centre for the Book

Rolled Books and Origami animals - done in conjunction with Alwijn of Coord Events

The Tree of Knowledge

I was commissioned by Orijin Advertising to create various paper installations and table decor for this awards ceremony sponsored by MNET.  This included a central installation in the foyer, origami horses, birds and candle holders for the16 tables, as well as a paper crown for the performer on the night.  Three artworks were also purchased and auctioned off to raise funds for the Naledi Childrens Trust on the night.

Building a tree from paper was a huge amount of fun.  Luckily there was a rather large plastic chandelier in the foyer that could be used as a base and a big, round table to place the frame for the trunk on.  This made things much easier as I just bought in all the bits ready to be installed.   

 I started by winding a wire frame round the chandelier to attach the paper bunting (leaves) to and then wound the paper flowers round this creating the tree canopy.  32 metres of paper bunting and 20 metres of flower creeper is what it took to create this effect.

The tree trunk is made of pages attached to a frame suspended from a standing light that was placed on the table.  I used about 80kg's of books around the base that were all purchased from Oasis Recycling on Landsdowne Road.  All of these books were destined to be pulped and most have been in circulation in our library system fro 30 plus years judging by the worn pages and library stamps. 

Additional flowers and Origami horses were then suspended from the canopy.  Loose flowers were scattered around the base of tree as well.  The 2 deer were cut from polystyrene and covered with pages  completed the forest scene.

The Ballroom had 16 tables of 10 people - each table had a beautiful Bonsai Tree (rented for the evening) with 3 paper birds hanging in them.  Around the base were 5 horses and 5 paper candle holders.   

Each Bonsai is completely unique and the tables looked elegant with the bamboo under plates, white chairs and crisp whote table clothes.  They managed to tone down the horrendous carpets rather beautifully.

The Three pieces up for auction in the foyer.  Even fish can fly, Cry the beloved country in a perspex box and Jock of the Bushveld box framed.