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GamesCom 2011 Press Day

Carsten — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:21:36 +0000

Welcome to the World’s largest trade fair and event highlight for interactive games and entertainment, with 550 exhibitors (500 in 2010) and almost 40 countries (33 in 2010) on 120.000 m² of floor space. Okay, enough with the numbers, here are the first pictures from this years press day at Gamescom Cologne 2011.

Leipzig Book Fair 2011

Carsten — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:55:25 +0000

After this years ITB, the next fair on my list was the Book Fair in Leipzig, so I took a car and traveled to the Leipzig Exhibition Grounds about 190km away from Berlin and like last year, the whole places was filled with cosplayers and photographers.

Leipzig Book Fair 2010

Carsten — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:30:00 +0000

Last weekend, I was in Leipzig to visit the Leipzig Book Fair 2010.

The Leipzig Book Fair is the most important spring meeting place for the publishing and media sector and has evolved into an attractive hallmark both in Germany and across Europe.

But after I arrived at the exhibition grounds, it was obvious that the fair isn’t only about Books anymore. Cosplayers, as far as the eye could see.

Since Animes and Mangas are becoming more and more famous in Germany, Cosplay is pretty popular among the fans and instead of taking pictures from books and their authors, I focused on capturing all the amazing costumes I saw during my time at the fair.

ITB 2010 – The whole world at one place

Carsten — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:55:13 +0000

After 3 long weeks I finally got my camera back, I had to send it to the Canon support to fix a broken card slot and a broken digital board.

With my brand new (repaired) camera, I visited this years ITB, the International Tourism Fair 2010 in Berlin.

The ITB is the World’s Leading Travel Trade Show with more than 180,000 visitors, among these 108,000 trade visitors, and over 10,000 exhibitors from 180 countries. The whole variety of travelling is present at ITB Berlin: Destinations, tour operators, booking systems, carriers, hotels and all other suppliers who want to embellish their customers most beautiful weeks of the year.

It was an interesting day, besides lots of catalogs and brochures with information about the different countries, people had the chance to see traditional dances, craftsman and goods from around the world.

ITB 2011 – Truly Inspiring

LOLWUT Meme used for Berlin’s Green Week Advert

Carsten — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:58:40 +0000

These days, you can see a lot of advertisements which were inspired by popular things from the internet. In this case, the Messe Berlin used a famous pear called LOLWUT which is a combination of lol and wut, a corruption of what, popularised on the Internet by a picture called The Biting Pear of Salamanca, modified to include the phrase and posted to various message boards, used to express a combination of confusion, amusement and/or disbelief, usually in response to something bizarre or outrageous…

…to announce the upcoming Internationale Grüne Woche, or International Green Week short IGW.

The Grüne Woche is a one-of-a-kind international exhibition for the food, agricultural, and horticultural industries. Producers from all over the world use the IGW to test-market food and luxury items and establish a brand image. It will take place for the 75th time in early 2010.

IFA09 – Consumer Electronics Unlimited

Carsten — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:58:36 +0000

Once again, the IFA, Europe’s biggest exhibition for Consumer Electronics and Home Appliances, takes place in Berlin. With everything from giant flat screens to the tiniest TV mobile phones, from mobile media players to complete home cinema – IFA presented fascinating highlights from every area of entertainment. An interlinked network of 26 fair halls covering a display area of 160,000 m².

Now everyone is talking about new releases, inventions and technologies. I decided to give you some information about their new products but also a look at the fascinating decorated exhibition halls.

Sony‘s products were placed around a big main hall, in the middle you could chill and watch their laser show on six big screens. Sony came up with their new 10 frames per second Cybershot, an advanced live view for SLR cameras the PS3 in 3D, the new BRAVIA Mode, HD camcorders and a couple of small things like electronic picture frames.

Panasonic‘s newest invention was their Full HD 3D technology, shown in a 7 minute demonstration with a trailer of James Cameron’s newest movie Avatar at the end. The whole hall was decorated in blue and purple (like a jungle) and of cause with a lot of new TV models, camcorders and photo cameras.

The best thing in LG’s product line is the new Borderless TV and I think the Asian Market thinks the same:

LG’s hall was bright an open, a lot of TVs hanging on the wall with the main event, the big Borderless-TV Show.

SAMSUNG‘s hall was stunning, a combination of LCD displays and mirrors, constructed on the entrance. Nobody could pass this masterpiece of art without standing there for about 5-10 minutes to watch the show.

Do you need a new haircut or to shave your beard? No problem! Phillips‘ hall was a testing ground for their new products. Everything from hair straightener to shaver, electric toothbrushes, coffee machines, telephones and of cause, the new Aurea 2009.

But that’s not all, over 1000 exhibitors presented their products to the mass.

Canon showed a now water- and dust-proof Powershot, a new printer and the D5 MII with their whole assortment of lenses.