New Year's Eve Parties

Since 2019, my flat-share has been hosting a New Year’s Eve party. Every year, we chose a special theme that determined the costumes and decorations. I always took the parties as an opportunity to be creative and designed digital invitation cards for each party, sometimes simpler, sometimes more complex.

2019-2020: The Great Gatsby

For the “The Great Gatsby” party, a visualizer was projected onto the wall with a beamer. Instead of a complex website, there was only a static invitation page, supplemented by printed invitation cards. The tech stack was rather unusual with MongoDB, ExpressJs and SocketIO. The frontend was quite complex, but was developed completely without a framework. The project escalated and a chat and a party management system were implemented. In addition, an extensive Google Sheet was created to track expenses, number of guests and paid contributions.

The Great Gatsby

2022-2023: Harry Potter

After no party could take place in recent years due to Covid, we decided on the motto “Harry Potter” as my flatmate is a big fan. This time there was a more complex invitation website with an animated WebGL “Talking Hat” that assigned a house to each guest. After registration, the guests were automatically stored in a Google Sheet. There was an admin interface where we could award points to the individual houses, and an interactive quiz that guests could play on the mobile website. The frontend was implemented with SvelteKit, tRPC, Prisma and SQLite.

Harry Potter and the Talking Hat

2023-2024: Venetian Masked Ball

There was also an animated invitation website for the “Venetian Masked Ball”. Guests could enter their name, from which a suitable title of nobility was then generated using an LLM. A portrait was then generated from the name and some information about their appearance, which was displayed in a kind of ancestral gallery. Technically, SvelteKit was used again, but this time with a PocketBase backend.

Venetian Masked Ball

2024-2025: Everything is Fashion

For “Everything is Fashion” there was again an animated invitation website, but without interactive elements at the party itself. In keeping with the theme “everything is fashion”, I wanted to shoot a teaser that refers to physical materials.

Everything is Fashion

2025-2026: Occult

For the upcoming New Year’s Eve party 2025-2026, we are planning an “Occult” theme that will create a mystical and mysterious atmosphere.

Everything is Fashion