Editor: Last time Anonymous Designer ran down the first five hassles with organizing a group design show: Getting funding, organizing your unruly band of designers, wrangling the troublemakers, fighting over the design of the space, and finally producing your own work. Here he lists the remaining five obstacles.
6. Transportation Logistics, Part 1: Group to Home Base
You know what makes you wish you’d gone into graphic design, rather than industrial design? Physically transporting your pieces. First off, in a group show you’ve got to get every designer’s pieces from their separate workshops and production houses to the central loading dock that you will ship out from. And in this city a lot of people don’t have cars, so they have to figure out a ZipCar, but they got the wrong size and their piece doesn’t fit, or they try to borrow a friend’s car, but the friend is late or doesn’t show up, and now you’re going to miss the truck to City B…
7. Transportation Logistics, Part 2: Home Base to Venue
How do you actually get the entire group’s stuff from City A to City B? Do you rent a U-Haul and flip coins to see which two team members are going to make the 16-hour drive? Do you trust the guy who couldn’t find your shop from his shop just four blocks away to make it several states away to City B within the prescribed time window?
Last year we ended up hiring a private trucker. He drove the 16 hours to City B, unloaded, then drove to a site we found outside the city where he could dump the truck for five days. Then we put him in a taxi to the airport and flew him back to City A. Five days later we flew him back out to City B, sent someone to pick him up at the airport to bring him to the truck, then he drove the truck to the venue, loaded up, and drove back to City A. Imagine how long it took to plan and coordinate that, and then double your estimate.
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