In celebration of Asian Pacific Islander Heritage month, AC*E Pop-up (Asian Creatives & Entrepreneurs) and Visual Conductor, an Asian, woman-owned experiential studio, create AMPLIFY: A fun, multisensory Asian Pacific Islander pop-up at City Point, a vibrant Brooklyn shopping center. Raising AAPI Businesses, while making an inclusive, cultural experience for local shoppers and tourists.
Through Retail-Tainment, we develop a thoughtful activation, with interactive moments and three areas: 1) Experiential Retail 2) Activity Space 3) F&B Cafe.
ROLES: Creative Direction, Event Design, Programming, Marketing
TEAM: Wendy Hu, Creative Director / Design. Trinity Lin, Brand Curation, Partnerships, Event Production
PARTNERS: City Point, DeKalb Market Hall, Space Type
SPONSORS: AESNYC, Team Guinchard / Serhant., Reflect Printing
AC*E is a grassroots collective supporting local / national Asian Creatives and Entrepreneurs. As an Asian, woman-owned creative studio, VISUAL CONDUCTOR joins AC*E as a creative partner to launch the Asian American and Pacific Islander-themed pop-up.
AC*E's first pop-up takes place in a 2200 square foot space in Soho. The Theme: Asian decor with a modern twist. Featuring a spectrum of Asian entrepreneurs, including apparel, accessories, food, NFTs, beverages and more. The pop-up launch is a hit, with a line down the block and most food vendors sell out!
ROLES: Event Design, Spatial Design, Window Display, Creative Direction, Graphic Design, Guerilla Marketing.
TEAM: Creative Director / Designer, Wendy Hu. Set Designer, Ru Jing Liu. Production: AC*E Team. Fabrication: Marc Rapp, Chang, Daniel Mendiola. Guerilla Street Team Lead, Jason Zhu.
PHOTOS: Rivy Major, Take21 Media, Hideki Aono, Poon Booth.
Visual Conductor presents MAKING WAVES: Fashion + Art Impacting Our Oceans, a virtual celebration in support of UN / Friends of World Oceans Day 2020 on Friday, June 5, 2020.
Fashion + Art + Panels + Music + Dance. Featuring a lineup of trailblazing speakers, artists, performers and fashion designers working in the ocean sustainability space. SEE TIMESTAMPS on program to view highlights.
In collaboration with NGO Committee on Sustainable Development-NY, Inc., SDG Impact Awards, hiTechMODA and ReGenRunway.
ROLES: Creative Direction, Production.
TEAM: Wendy Hu, Creative Director / Producer. Catherine Schuller, Creative Director / Programming. Margo LaZaro, Programming / Producer. Mary Hawkins, Motion Design. Tarik Mohammed, Video Editor. Sebastien Grant, Music. Dig Down Media, Livestream.
An immersive fashion showroom created by Voor 3D featuring ocean sustainable designers Runa Ray and American Umma. A VR experience; displayed here as video capture. Debuted as visuals at dancIN' Experiment 3.0, an ocean / sustainability-themed virtual dance party.
ROLES: Curation, Creative Direction.
COLLABORATORS: Wendy Hu, Creative Director. Voor 3D, Creative + rendering. Runa Ray, Fashion Designer. American Umma, Fashion Designer.
dancIN’ is a virtual party experiment with a mission of love: 1) Bring joy while people are socially isolated and need positivity. 2) Support DJs / artists impacted financially. 3) Push the boundaries of virtual events!
With exciting immersive / interactive features: curated DJs, Visual Artists, Dancer Spotlights, Virtual Photobooth, Video Chat, Costume Contests, Sponsored Giveaways and more. We take learnings from each experiment, go back to the lab and re-emerge with new design and tech capabilities. dancIN' on Instagram
ROLES: Creative Direction, Logo Design, Branding, Social Media Content, Event Programming, Tech Ideation, Virtual Production.
TEAM: Wendy Hu, Co-Creator / Creative Director; Visual Conductor. Beth Casey-Hernandez, Co-Creator / Producer; Meeting Nerd. Ian Busching, Technical Director; Dig Down Media.