Macworld: Teaser banners drape Macworld venue
Attendees arriving early for this year's Macworld Expo won't find any concealed Apple banners flanking the entranceway to the Moscone Center, traditionally one of the conference's trademarks leading up to Steve Jobs' opening keynote.
Instead, Apple has adorned the venue with several variations of the same teaser image that appeared on its website last week: a radiant Apple logo set to the tagline, "The first 30 years were just the beginning. Welcome to 2007."
Of course, you will find some of those heavily shrouded banners suspended above Apple's booth in the South Hall. But it's growing clear that this year's expo may be more about a common message, ideal or strategy than any one product.
Instead, Apple has adorned the venue with several variations of the same teaser image that appeared on its website last week: a radiant Apple logo set to the tagline, "The first 30 years were just the beginning. Welcome to 2007."
Of course, you will find some of those heavily shrouded banners suspended above Apple's booth in the South Hall. But it's growing clear that this year's expo may be more about a common message, ideal or strategy than any one product.
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Maybe I am just seeing things.
Is it just me, or does this banner/placard sign looked like it's been stepped on, on the left side? The line spacing seems less on the left side than the right.
Maybe I am just seeing things.
To me, the "F" in "Conference" looks higher than the other letters.
yes these are kind of bland but we dont normally get that great of hints from these banner shots so just be happy google is sponsoring macworld. btw didnt microsoft also sponsor this year?
what's with the banner that says "See you in SF on the 14th through the 18th"? What's on the 14th? Cause Macworld is on the 9th?!
That's for MWSF 2008.
Is it just me, or does this banner/placard sign looked like it's been stepped on, on the left side? The line spacing seems less on the left side than the right.
You all do realize it's one of those signs with the movable letters, just a fancier version you'd find outside of your local dollar store?
e.g. The lettering.
and good god i cant wait:-)
Just a thought.
Of course, you will find some of those heavily shrouded banners suspended above Apple's booth in the South Hall.
And *that*'s the stuff we wanna get our dirty naughty little eyes and hands on...
But it's growing clear that this year's expo may be more about a common message, ideal or strategy than any one product.
Sure, there are so many product predictions it's all gone crazy. Thank goodness there will be a common message to make sense of it. And the blessed iLeader shall deliver this message from the iHeavens. Long may he reign so that our desperate need for *actual* shipping products and services and media shall be fulfilled, a cup ever overfloweth.
Is it just me, or does this banner/placard sign looked like it's been stepped on, on the left side? The line spacing seems less on the left side than the right.
Maybe I am just seeing things.
I was last as Moscone Center in 2002 working on an Oracle conference. For anyone that hasn't been there, for all the modern tech of San Francisco and the glorious Valley of Silicon, Moscone Center uses those dodgy letter-by-letter cards like those in really old baseball/ football stadiums.
That's no banner. That's why the words look all out of alignment. It's like single cards per word kinda lined up along the row. Maybe it's a retro thing...
Has anyone considered that the "Welcome to 2007" signs are just replacing drab, black covers that usually grace the entrance? Perhaps there are new product signs underneath at least some of these posters and when people leave the keynote, the "Welcome to 2007" signs will be removed, revealing the newly-announced products underneath them.
Just a thought.
Brilliant. Great Idea...!! You must be a magician. Have you seen The Prestige and The Illusionist...???
http://imdb.com/title/tt0443543/
http://imdb.com/title/tt0482571/
Also: As the bland banners are removed to reveal the products, the security guards will morph into these:
(Sounds like I'm sarcastic but really I'm not.)