MBK

The down-low on design here:

Day 1 - On the job here at Hope 4 Bangkok I was made aware of an upcoming health expo that needed design. The event is a giant health awareness seminar complete with booths activities and information taking place in MBK, one of the biggest malls in Thailand drawing crowds of over 150, 000 people daily.
Week 2 - I was told that the hospital PR department here in Bangok would be heading up everything but the website, they asked me to do that. I finished a prototype and got it approved.
Week 3 - Hospital sends S.O.S. distress call to Hope 4 Bangkok saying they have no design ideas. We met up and I brought some sketched out themes for possible poster design ideas. They liked one idea in particular and then decided I should do all the poster designs as well...yikes!
Week Now? - Hospital asks to meet again at the mall just to look at the site and get a better idea for event/stage layout and design. Turns out they were having a meeting with the actual staff administrators of the MBK mall! We showed up 40 minutes late due to traffic..sorta...and I'm wearing jeans and tennis-shoes. They tell us the meeting is on the 8th floor, we get in an elevator (which promptly goes down instead of up, making us even later) and arrive to a stunning office section of the building. MBK staff are milling around in their perfectly ironed outfits and heels and we're sent to a giant confrence room. After a meeting they tell us they're moving the health expo to a different side of the building, changing event layout and design. We meet for several hours more exploring the site and...ta da! You are now looking at the ONLY designer for the event....panic mode? O.O Not being able to speak Thai is a danger in the working community because they basically just vote that I do everything and I sit there until they translate that "Congratulations, you're now doing...." hahahaha.
The PR staff at the hospital is great and really nice, they're still doing tons of work for the event and will be helping with Thai translation and text in several areas later so I'm not completely on my own. Todays' meeting however was a bit overwhelming...*crosses fingers*
The bright side is that we have 3 weeks until the event, and none of the other projects I'm doing come due around that time...so this aint no Senior Year...yet.......! (Shout out to all you PUC design slave seniors...good luck! I love you guys!)