GRAVITY FREE: 2006
“Innovation, Inspiration, Liberation”
April 30 - May 2 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts San Francisco
In a world where the right-brainers are rising and nothing short of remarkable ideas will do, Lee Knight, founder and editor in chief of EXHIBITOR magazine launched an annual design conference aptly named GRAVITY FREE: 2006, its theme Inspiration. Liberation. Innovation.
Held April 30 to May 2 in four of San Francisco’s institutes of design innovation — the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, MoAD: The Museum of the African Diaspora, and the de Young Museum — GRAVITY FREE was a far cry from a typical project-focused, how-to design conference led by environmental and graphic designers. (After all, a typical conference is exactly the kind of thing a left-brainer would invent.)
Rather, the GRAVITY FREE conference was an assemblage of nearly 200 attendees and more than 25 great thinkers and innovators from myriad fields, ranging from food technology and hotel management to brain theory and card stacking. Based on Knight’s belief that “you can’t implement an idea you don’t have,” GRAVITY FREE was first and foremost an idea blizzard offering the exhibit industry’s right-brainers fodder for thought, inspiration, and undoubtedly, innovation.
Learn more, by reading the July 2006 issue of EXHIBITOR magazine.