The planning and collection, purchasing and transport of materials started 2 weeks prior to the event. Then last 4-5 days involved intensive constructing, drawing and painting. Intensive meant until 2-3am and 'ready-to-launch' at 8.30pm on the night. My friend and I created the Kumar & Clark's Medical Textbook, and 6 other friends created the rest of the five 'Recommended Reading' textbooks. It was physically tiring and at times got just a tiny tad frustrating/stressful - both the time-restrained creative process AND the carrying and waddling in the boxes and cold weather down a 2-mile Barcrawl. I wouldn't say 'I love Art'. But I certainly love and enjoy creativity... and attention to detail, so the time and effort was definitely worth it and enjoyable. By the end of the night, these artworks ended up in the skip bin behind the club venue, and we ended up winning both Best and Worst MEDSOC Fancy Dress Awards.
Of last note, my friend and I admire Professor Parveen Kumar, so we sent some pictures to her just to make her smile. She later forwarded it to the publishing company and it got posted on their blog... and that's the story of how we both started 'working' with Elsevier!
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