I've never been before, even though it seemed the kids from every secondary school in London went yesterday, but my school must of been tight. It's really impressive, with a huge range of projects, various methods of displaying work, and each college and university with its own presentation style. Some colleges 'flash the cash' more than others, but on the whole its a great way to see designs that could potentially be in your home in the near future.
In the past, Rave Interaction have taken the 'bog standard' route, and exhibited students work on the walls just like every other college tends to do. But this year we decided to be a little different.
The core premiss was to draw people in with something unusual, then interact with them while explaining our projects. For this we chose to slap a table tennis table in the middle of our exhibit space, as you do!
From walking around the Design Centre, everyone was talking about our stand. Some people didn't have a clue what we were doing, and wondered why, but others really liked the fresh thinking, and different take on presenting work, and interacting with people.
It was great fun, and throughout the day I won every single game I played*. I'm such a great ping pong player**.
On top of the 'take-away' leaflets were Top Trump style cards for people to take. On them were our personal details (Phone No., Email, Website), and a blurb about out interests ans strengths. These went down really well, with people taking the whole set of 9 card (one for each of us). Each card has its own individual colour, reflected by the headbands we wore, and project headers in the leaflet.
*Not true, **Not true again.
*Not true, **Not true again.
