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For the Museum of Modern Art’s film benefit on November 15 in New York, the celebrity arrivals backdrop wasn’t a step-and-repeat of logos but rather a wall of 20,000 fresh crimson-colored roses.

In November, as part of a campaign created by Saatchi & Saatchi for T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom, a 3-D holographic version of Mariah Carey, produced by Musion, simultaneously performed a concert in five European cities.

For its fifth annual industry event on Thursday, June 21, Raw commissioned a band of graphic illustrators to produce floor-to-ceiling graphics. The illustrations turned the empty warehouse space at 109 Ossington into an immersive pictorial commentary on the creative process behind the city’s shifting landscape.

The graphic images also decorated the outdoor section of the event.

As a playful way to add to the visuals, Sublime Catering worked with Kim Graham Associates to create vibrantly coloured event menu. Dishes included a chicken salad with green peas and pesto, served in a green pepper cup.

The blue-hued bite was Parisienne potatoes topped with blue-dyed whitefish mousse and blue sea salt.

Emulating the bright red colour that marks a number of comic book superheroes, Sublime Catering served beef tartare with beet-dyed horseradish served in an heirloom tomato.

The venue's parking lot was turned into an urban campground, with cutouts of city skylines and simple furnishings decorating the space.

The commissioned graphics were also presentation via a 30-foot-tall projection the site's facade.

Open fire pits and s'more kits with oversize marshmallows invited guests to make their own melted treats.

Other dessert options included bites of cotton candy that, with LED lights, looked as though they were glowing in the dark.

As takeaway, guests received a copy of the Rawstrip comic book.

Scent designer Tracy Pepe of Nose Knows Design crafted a custom blend for the event dubbed "Inspiraw," which guests could sniff.

At Barbra Streisand's fund-raiser for the Cedars-Sinai Women's Heart Center in Malibu, colorful floral arrangements in wooden vases played off the outdoor setting.

California-based rental company Archive Rentals offers a large collection of authentic vintage Western and camping-themed items, including reclaimed barn-wood tables, camping trailers, Airstream trailers and canoes.

Markus Daly Ryan produced Univision's Deportes launch in New York, where picnic tables formed the bulk of the seating and found lumber was turned into cocktail tables for a neighborhood-block-party feel.

LoLo Event Design offers hand-painted handkerchiefs that can serve as table numbers at a garden event. Geraniums in a terra cotta pot have a more casual feel than an elaborate formal centerpiece.

LoLo Event Design also creates message-in-a-bottle place cards for beach-inspired events.

For a recent pool party, the team at Swank Productions kept the decor streamlined, with a mostly white color palette, mirrored furnishings, and plenty of sheer draping.

Jeffrey Foster of Event Creative designed custom-built tables and props, including glowing baseball-diamond-shaped tables and a scoreboard that hung above the dance floor for a baseball-themed bar mitzvah in Chicago.

In the lounge area, a dropped ceiling of silk strips and black glass chandeliers formed the main visuals.

#12 Trade Show & Convention
Some 450 artisans displayed hand-made wares at the spring show and the One of a Kind Show and Sale plans to have 800 participants at the Christmas show this year. Next: November 22-December 2, 2012

#3 Benefit
At the 2012 Massive Party, 1,800 guests let loose in the Art Gallery of Ontario, raising $145,000. Next: spring 2013

#5 Benefit
In 2011, the Design Exchange Black and White Gala had decor inspired by honourees Karim Rashid, Hani Rashid, and Lise Ann Couture and drew more than 1,000 guests. Next: fall 2012

The entryway for the New York event was a tunnel filled with smoke, projections, and audio. The sounds and images playing were of frustrated smartphone users, designed to contrast the setting inside.

Following the screening, guests headed upstairs to the open-air flight deck, where illuminated spheres and potted trees lined the pathway to the party space.

Target Canada took over the Templar Hotel from September 6 to 8, creating a branded environment. A red carpet and a silver bus marked with the Target bull's-eye logo parked outside drew attention from passersby.

Jeffry Roick of McNabb Roick Events outfitted Target's space with modern red and white furniture, branded artwork, and the retailer’s bull's-eye logo. Media and film industry pros were invited to stay at the all-red and white hotel, or just unwind in the lobby (pictured). There was also a temporary Filmmakers’ Lounge in the penthouse suite.

Guests could play with a life-size Lite Brite wall made with illuminated Vitaminwater bottles

L.A.-based artist Jorge Pardo created a special edition of brightly colored lanterns that hung over the Hammer Museum's Gala in the Garden.

Hundreds of balloons from Balloon Trix hung from the ceiling during the V.I.P. dinner. The space changed colour with each course, starting with blue, morphing to pink for the main course, changing to orange for dessert, and ending in red.

Dramatic chandeliers set the tone at the MSNBC party.

The Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago gave its annual summertime ball a "Great Cats-by" theme this year. To channel the interior of a grand East Coast estate described in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, Frost's David Kelly worked with designers from Event Creative to hang a cluster of ornate chandeliers form the top of the dinner tent.

The Washington National Opera Ball took over the ceremonial building at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in 2010. Event producer Sandi Hoffman of Sandi R. Hoffman Special Events transformed the lobby into a winter landscape with plush white carpets and white birch trees lining the hallway.

Ronald McDonald House Toronto hosted its annual holiday-time gala at the Carlu in December. McNabb Roick Events reflected the Holiday Chic: Sparkle theme in sequined table linens and the crystal candle holders that served as centerpieces.

For a winter-themed corporate party, design director Andrew Zill of Baltimore-based Feats Inc. created a snowy scene that included a glowing bar anchored by a crystal-flocked tree.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada celebrated its 50th anniversary gala in November at the Ritz-Carlton in Toronto, where planners created a wintery forest feel by lining the ballroom with living trees hung with candlelit lanterns.

At Japan's annual Winter Illuminations festival, the popular Tunnel of Light enveloped guests in more than a million lights.

LED lights in the tunnel were shaped like flowers.

A Bollywood prop served as a conversation piece adjacent to Along Came Mary's buffet stations, which offered curries, Hindi sweets like Bombay kulfi and kaffir lime bars, and other on-theme fare.

Jewel tones added bright pops of color to the enormous space, with linens, lanterns, and other decor pieces all decked out in bold orange, purple, pink, and red hues.

A colorful stage served as a splashy backdrop for performances by the B-52s, Estelle, and DJ Michelle Pesce.

For the Grammys Special Merit Awards at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre, 15/40 Productions took its cue for the lighting from the Recording Academy's invitation. The invite had a relief of an intricate pattern, evocative of, say, the style of an Indian henna tattoo in a deep wine color. The production company translated that look into the design and decor, including an ornate lighting pattern.

On Friday, L.A. Live's Conga Room was the backdrop for the launch of the mPowering Action mobile platform, an entertainment-driven initiative aimed at empowering youth through mobile phones.

MacFarlane hosted an after-party at the Lot in West Hollywood, produced by Night Vision Entertainment. The event included a 30-foot chandelier and 72-piece orchestra, which played on stage under a dome meant to evoke the Hollywood Bowl. And Teeks supplied golden flip-flops at a coat-check-like station that invited guests to swap their heels for more comfortable footwear.

For Essence's sixth annual pre-Oscar award luncheon, Candace Purdie Montgomery worked with Caravents to drape the Beverly Hills Hotel in a rich palette of gold, black, and slate blue, reflected in the ballroom, lounge, custom linens, screen graphics, and lighting effects. A recurring motif of ornate gold frames decked the space, from the press wall to sponsor integrations in the lounge to the stage set. For the first time, the table configuration included a mix of round and rectangular tables, making the room feel larger.

CasaBubble rents inflatable, modular spheres for events. Envisioned by French designers Frédéric Richard and Pierre-Stéphane Dumas, the transparent, pressurized bubbles can be used as V.I.P. areas, pop-up shops, dining spaces, and more in outdoor environments. There are five different models and the structures come with a wooden floor. Solar cells and battery equipment are also available.

UNC Paris's inflatable furniture items are now available in the U.S. under the moniker Modern Inflatables. The line includes a sofa, chair, table, pouf, deck chair, and rocking chair. Made in France from clear, recyclable polyurethane thermoplastic, the items can be rented with the company's standard range of interchangeable, colored fabric covers, which can also be custom-printed or embroidered with logos and pictures. Custom work takes at least six weeks to manufacture. Items start from $195 without covers.

Inflate USA's line of inflatable structures for events includes more than 30 different sizes and shapes, such as the Luna, designed to act as a portable bar area, and the Trident, a massive tent structure designed for concerts and expos that can be set up in less than five hours. The structures, which cost from $800 to more than $5,000 to rent, are all fully brandable.

Bubble Miami offers its inflatable igloos and walls for events throughout Florida. Rental prices range from $200 to $800.

Blueprint Studios introduced a 20-foot-tall inflatable structure dubbed the Hypercube. Available for national and international delivery, the black-and-white cube can be used as shelter from the sun at an outdoor event and rents for $1,800.

The Blofield collection is available to rent nationwide through CORT Event Furnishings. The line includes an inflatable loveseat and chair made from a durable vinyl material designed to withstand snow, sand, and heat. In addition to cream and black, CORT now offers Blofield seating in vibrant red, too.