Y INTERACT Celebrates The Year of the Tiger!

3rd Annual Chinese New Year Party!

After a two week delay (the initial event postponed due to a major snowstorm) Y INTERACT hosted our 3rd Annual Chinese New Year Party celebrating the Year of the Tiger! The event took place on Thursday, March 11, 2010 at our Canal Street design studio.

A great time was had by all - clients, prospects, business partners, Friends of the House, and even some family! The food, catered by Certe, was delicious, and the evening's specialty cocktail, Tiger's Blood (which has something to do with gingered pomegranate, pears and vanilla vodka), went down very well, literally and figuratively. Our partners in all things interior/architectural, Freecell, blew everyone out of the water (or should I say "Into the Forest!") by creating a most amazing vinyl window display of a tiger that spanned the entire length of our south-facing windows.

However, I would say the BIGGEST HIT of the evening was our Red Carpet wall. For the first time, our event featured a VIP celebrity-style photographic backdrop that made the event really fun and festive, it got everyone into the groove of the evening AND gave us fantastic Y INTERACT-branded post event photos that we have since posted on our pages at Flickr, Twitpic and Facebook.

At Y INTERACT, we like to get away from our desks and have fun. But the annual Chinese New Year party isn't simply about having a good time. It's a great opportunity to entertain clients in-house, educate prospects about what we do as a design studio, and thank all of our business partners / Friends of the House for their support over the last year. Even in this economy, by finding the right caterer and hosting the event in-studio, it's an extremely cost-effective event. Our annual party is also a perfect opportunity to showcase our skills as design firm - the Flash animated e-card, HTML email, plasma screen animation, wall posters, and red carpet wall were all designed in-house, allowing everyone present to get a complete 360-degree perspective on Y INTERACT and our creative energy.

Bringing the festivities to the social channels for post-event follow up, we just finished sending out "Thank You" emails, with photo attachments, to our guests plus a link to the full party pix gallery on our Flickr page, and link to our Facebook page. The animation was posted to both Vimeo and YouTube, and all of these links have been tweeted over the course of the day on our Twitter page. Although it did occur to me to tweet the event-in-progress, as host that would have been rather anti-social.

Watch this space for Chinese New Year 2011 - the Year of the Rabbit!

Ahmed Yearwood
Y INTERACT
www.yinteract.com