I am very proud to announce that once again we won “Best Box” at the Hong Kong Sevens.
The Hong Kong Sevens is a highlight on the event calendar and defiantly one of the best festivals in Asia. This year like many others in the past I didn’t actually see a whole game and only managed a couple glasses of Pimms on the Saturday but loved the atmosphere and had a great time.
We were looking after two corporate hospitality boxes this year. One was a sponsor of the sevens and our third year in looking after them. The other we celebrated our fourteenth year of creating experience together for their clients and staff at the 7’s. In the past we helped them to secure the coveted award from Finance Asia for “Best Box” twice and this year 2013 marks the third.. for the full article click here
Best Box history
In 2002 we won for “All Bar Scrum” for which we created and managed a traditional English Pub.
A clear winner in 2005 for “Seven’s Heaven”… They came to me and said ‘heaven’ is the theme, but no angels and no wings.. So I turned the place into the Sistine Chapel all with rugby elements We removed the ceiling and replaced it with photo shopped Michael Angelo’s … “Creation” had god throwing Adam a rugby ball, “Creation of Eve” became “sin bin” with God giving a yellow card to Eve..
Sevens 2013…
For 2013 this year’s “Art of Rugby” design was a team effort. We turned the small space into a studio and art gallery with original art all with a rugby element.
Everything had a ‘rugby art’ theme we had a great video installation from artist Kees Van Wan check out a low res version here
My old days of street art were reinvigorated with my Wang Gaungyi inspired stencils on the bar top and the Neon Art created a nice pink glow..
Mona was very popular as was the other photo op
But the piece d résistance was our drinkable art .. a vodka cranberry “liquid painting” that you could drink.
Maybe our other client should have won?
Although we won ‘best box’ for the art themed suite actually I think the feel, décor and atmosphere of our other client might have edged out the artsy vibe to take the prize… however as the other client wasn’t a financial company they weren’t in the running. For them we had a “Team Theme” and good team needs their own stadium. So that what we made.. a private stadium.
Complete with visiting Rugby legends…
Own locker room too!
Awards are a wonderful incentive but it is only with good clients that trust your judgement and allow you the space to be creative can you truly create award worthy material.
