Expo! Expo! 2008 Theme/T-shirt Slogan Concepts- VOTE!

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Which t-shirt theme do you prefer? Details and explanations below. (Please note that the final selection will be used to design and print t-shirts that will be handed out by the Young Professionals Committee at the upcoming Expo! Expo! Annual Meeting and Exhibition.)

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Theme 1: A World of Prisms.
The prism is representative of a few things: parallel planes, transparent body and something that distorts, slants or colors what is viewed (a.k.a. new perspective). The parallel planes reflects the idea that people across different generations do move in similar directions within the industry. The transparent body is reflecting the new wave for corporations, organizations, motivations, procesess, et cetera – an increased interest in, or even a demand for, transparency. This supports clarity and understanding. The new perspective approach was included earlier, so I will let that be.

Theme 2: Engagement – No Ring Needed.
People are looking to be engaged and to promote engagement across all generations, membership types, et cetera. While there may seem to be the “ball and chain” reluctance to truly working with one another to become engaged, there’s all of the potential without the cost of a ring. This one may be a stretch, but it’s fun.

Theme 3: More of the Same: Change, Talent, Engagement, Fresh Ideas, Tried and True Wisdom, Common Goals.
This one would probably have the words centered and going down the shirt. While it’s testing waters because of the political allusion, it reveals a lot about us. Both parties are “accused” of promising more of the same. Both parties are “accused” of not changing their tone or message over the years, despite a promise of change. It is a safe accusation because “More of the Same” is change. No matter the decade, demographic, generation, psychographic, et cetera, there is change, there is talent coming into the work force, people are seeking engagement (how soon they get discouraged varies), people are bringing fresh ideas to the table, wisdom is shared to counter the ideas and come up with the most ideal result and people are often moving after the same common goal, despite taking different approaches.

Theme 4: (Blue circle).
White t-shirts with a blue dot (~4″) on the front and one on the back (~7″). This is purely a curiosity snatcher as people may be inclined to ask what the shirts with the blue dots represent. The meaning of the different sizes on both sides of the shirt (aside from being visible from both sides) is that when the individuals have finished speaking and they turn from each other to move on to other things, their sphere of knowledge will have expanded.

Theme 5: This is How We Roll.
How about a picture of (recycled) carpet being rolled down an aisle of a tradeshow with the slogan “This is how we roll.” And then the sub-slogan could be IAEE Young Professionals; or whatever you want people to do. Like — Get involved with IAEE, or Bringing a new perspective to the tradeshow industry.

Theme 6: Tradeshows are for Lovers

Theme 7: Planting a Seed.
This might be a bit biased, but how about something about ‘planting a seed’ with the seed being our YPs at conference and the seasoned professionals being the ‘water’ that will help our YPs grow with IAEE?? — We used a’planting the need’ as a take off of the ‘planting the seed’ idea for our office postcard when we moved to our new (and larger) office eariler this year.

Have fun voting!

Best Regards,

Nora Johnson