Welcome to Gaia :: Help Gaia decorate its cubicles! UPDATED 5/8

This is being posted under GCD since it's involving our online community.

Hello Gaians,

We need your help. The Gaia customer service team (aka Admins) here at Gaia headquarters is participating in a company-wide “cube decorating contest.” We have a few ideas for themes, but thought you might be able to help us with better creative ideas. I know you guys are really creative, so show me what you got! We have a limited amount of time to go buy the decorations, so let us know your ideas by Monday, May 5th at high-noon, PDT. We’ll pick from your vast ideas, go buy the stuff, pimp out to the max, and then post pictures of the decorated cubes afterwards. And then, separately, you guys will decide which Gaia department wins the interior decorating contest!

Here are some guidelines that we have to follow:
• We have a budget of $1,100 US dollars to “pimp out our cubes.”
• We can get stuff like lighting, art for the walls, floor coverings, mobiles, wall coverings, the sky’s the limit! (well, within the budget amount).
• Suggest a theme as well as what items we should go buy to make the theme complete.
• Multiple theme ideas are allowed per member. Give us lots of ideas.
• There are 9 departments in the contest, but none of them are probably reaching out to you for ideas like we are! See how the customer service team is always thinking about you, our members? biggrin
• If we choose a member’s idea to go with, that person will win 10,000 gold as well as unlimited online bragging rights (sanctioned by the Admins)! The first member with the winning idea gets the prize, so post your ideas here publicly rather than PMing me.
• Ideas that have already been thought of (therefore not eligible for the 20k gold) are: space theme, jungle theme, and two others I have written down at the office that escapes me right now. I will update this list tomorrow.
• This ideas-generating contest ends on Monday, May 5th at high noon, PDT.

Let the creative juices flow and leave us your theme ideas as Replies below! And thanks for your ideas! Go!

Tae
“eat egg”

Edit:
Ok, this part of the contest is over now. You guys gave us sooo many great ideas that we're going to pick not one, but 11 of them for our dept. One theme for each cube with an over-arching theme of "Inspirations from our Members." I'll list off the 11 winners/ideas soon and the users who'll EACH get 10,000 gold! Thanks everyone for such great ideas -- it was really hard to pick from so many great ones.

We're decorating now and you'll soon be involved in judging which department's theme wins. So check back here soon for an update later this week. Hoping to not only have pictures, but maybe even a video of each dept's decorations so that it'll be easy for you to see all the details.

Thanks again!

Tae

Edit 5/8:
Ok, so the following 11 user ideas were chosen for the customer service (Admins) department's cube decorations. We're getting a big 25-foot-long sign made that pays tribute to you, our members!
The winning ideas and their users are:
Cars/Speed Racer by tidesong
UK Theme by Moondial
Harry Botter by Shrimp man
Post It Notes by Spirit Crusher
bats/cave by UnderworldTorrent
Lego by happily ever after
Zoo by -Darc-1
Alice in Wonderland by The Caffeine Queen
Sushi/Bento Box by tidesong (wow double bragging rights!)
Donkey Kong by Lady Kayura
Orindae in a cube by DigitalDaydreams

Thank you again for such great ideas. Your gold has been granted now. Wow, you should see the cubes already! We're almost done decorating and the pictures/videos should be posted any day now! (this weekend) Sorry for the delay. So check back here soon!

Tae

Edit 5/28:
The official contest has started now and is here. Please go vote!

Grand Theft Auto-themed decor is great. surprised

Lots of 3D arts. Seriously, do you guys play GTA? emo

I double pirates!!!!

How about a Hawaiian theme. You can have palm trees, maybe a cabana, some lei of all different colors.

Or a medieval theme. Have the walls look like a caste, weapons, armor. Get a rocking horse, and you can have jousting matches. Can't forget you will need a dragon. 3nodding

I am the embodiment of fear and evil

Since I'm a huge nerd...Harry Potter themed.

Oh or Evil Dead! But that might be a little hard unless you can find a fake chainsaw... ninja Ignore that one...*sings songs from the musical*

of the House of Demonic Dreams

well when it comes to something I will see everyday, I'd tend towards something that will ALLOW creativity, something zen-like would be nice, replace/put infront of cube dividers with shoji screens.
You can fake the shoji screens by using a normal corkboard under but put a layer of thin white cloth on top so it can double up as a normal cork board.

hang a paper lantern from the ceiling and make some paper cranes, "tatami" on the table, bamboo stationary holder, and a little bonsai plant ^^

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Other more fun themes:
super heros, with all the pow wow action words

hello kitty!!!! hahahaha and other sanrio characters

spongebob square pants, so its kinda like an ocean theme but not really

electrician/computer parts theme.... use resistors and wires to decorate the cube, make it look like an exposed motherboard!

candy wrapper/food wrapper theme.... everything is candy and food o.O

sushi theme:
Wrap the cube walls up with seaweed-like wrap and stick styrofoam/plastic rice -looking bits at the end to simulate the rice inside, add a huge raw "salmon" on the top, get some kinda rubber for that?

cheese factory theme:
cube walls with metal(aluminium foil maybe?) and gears... milk comes in at one end and cheese out the other..... make a dustbin look like a milk bottle, another to be wrapped up like cheese.... attached tubes everywhere