Creative Technologies and Production Club created a variety of animations in the world's largest inflatable dome for the sixth event in the traveling electronic dance music-focused Dot Party series—created by Minecraft mogul Markus Persson—which took place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in June. The 69-foot-tall, 200-foot-diameter dome held 2,500 people who partied to DJ Snake and Skrillex and was lit up by a 360-degree mapped projection that featured constantly changing animations.
Eventique produced the launch event for Forevermark's "A Diamond Is Forever" campaign revival, which took place October 28 at the Stephan Weiss Studio in New York. The event featured an eight-foot rock structure that showcased the diamonds in small, illuminated caves closed with glass windows.
For those looking for in-office Thanksgiving-theme catering ideas, Santa Monica-based Sweet Rose Creamery offers holiday pies with a twist. The seasonal ice cream pies come in flavors like Brown Sugar With Butter Pecan.
For the debut of the Balmain for H&M launch, the Swedish fashion brand hosted a party on October 20 at 23 Wall Street in New York. Bar areas were largely industrial and contemporary in aesthetic, with mock numbers mimicking the subway ticket concept. Overhead hung a back-lit screen that served more a purpose of fantasy than function: diagrams mimicked a train station route and its many stops.
In addition to the traditional bar setups, large vitrines featured images from the Balmain for H&M campaign. Again, the visuals were in keeping with the subterranean vibe of the event and modeled after advertising found throughout mass transit walkways.
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation hosted its 26th annual "A Time for Heroes" family festival on October 25 at Smashbox Studios in Los Angeles. For new sponsor King of Harts, organizers set up an area meant to resemble a campsite in Lake Tahoe. The booth included a s'mores-making station.
Oracle's OpenWorld Conference took place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco October 25 to 29. Mosaic and Invisible Light Network's "Voice of Data" installation let guest create a new kind of wearable data: By sharing a personal statement into a microphone, guests created an algorithm that was translated into a design, which was laser-cut into branded leather bracelets. Some guests left their bracelets behind to display them in the "Future Meets Fashion" gallery.
Orlando-based Totally Mod Event Furnishings recently launched First Class Session Seating, a new line of seats designed to provide comfort and convenience during long meetings and conferences. The seats are designed with lumbar support, memory foam construction, individual arms, and a built-in swivel desk.
For those looking for alternative portable lunch ideas for afternoon meetings, Larder in Los Angeles offers a fried chicken plate with a house-made biscuit, long-cooked cavolo nero, summer succotash salad, and a chocolate chip or oatmeal cookie.
Abigail Kirsch in New York offers an Asian-theme portable lunch consisting of sesame noodle salad topped with spicy tuna and California rolls, which are served in individual take-out containers.
The National Geographic Channel celebrated its 15th anniversary after its TCA presentation on January 6 at the Langham Huntington, Pasadena. The network celebrated with an intricate cake designed by the Butter End Cakery in Santa Monica, California. The cake featured a levitating, spinning top tier, a middle tier with the network's logo atop a globe, and a bottom tier that depicted scenes from the channel's shows.
The launch of Gwen Stefani’s new collection with Urban Decay took place January 7 at Studio 450 in New York. The bar design was inspired by the collection, using its graphic print on the front with gold circles behind the bar that recalled the eye shadow and blush palettes. Gold glitter champagne bottles customized for the event rounded out the display.
A silk-screening station let guests customize versions of one of Stefani’s signature looks: a cutoff T-shift with Old English lettering. Guests could choose from two colors of T-shirts and four colors for the print, which featured the collection logo.
Fresh Wata's custom Boulevardier bar comes apart easily and can be rebuilt in an event space. The piece was designed to take up less space on trucks and fit easily into venues with small doorways.
Toronto's Barchef has a winter cocktail known as the Night Blossom. The bourbon-and-Scotch drink has innovative ingredients that include almond and maple snow, spherified patchouli and amaro, balsam fir and honey julienne, rosemary syrup, and more. The cocktail is poured table-side.
At the Library Bar in Chicago, the One Flew cocktail is served in a birdcage. The large-batch rum punch, spiced with tiki bitters, serves 15 guests. Its ingredients include the Italian liqueur Galliano, which a bar rep says is "making a comeback."
In Style's annual party with Warner Brothers took place on Sunday in a tent constructed by Thomas Ford of Tom Ford Designs at the Beverly Hilton's Oasis Courtyard. The focal point of the party space was a center light installation, a modern take on a deconstructed lantern.
NBC Universal's annual rooftop party took place at the Beverly Hilton. Among the architectural elements in the Moroccan-style space was a sunken water feature that party producer and designer Angel City Designs custom built as the centerpiece of a raised lounge area. The fountain had a faux Moroccan tile bottom with two water sprayers, all accented with white floral petals.
Transfernation, an app created by New York University seniors Samir Goel and Hannah Dehradunwala in 2013, aims to simplify the donation of leftover food from meetings and events. The "Uber for food rescue" app allows organizations with food to donate and volunteers who transport it to track the process. The app, which has donated more than 10,000 pounds of food since its launch, has coordinated food pickups from Indeed, Cater2.me, and Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting in September.
Co-working space WeWork brought its series of warehouse parties to Miami for an event at Thompson Miami Beach, during Art Basel on December 3. Hosted with artists FriendsWithYou, the gathering had a “house party” theme. DJ DZA played a set of late 1990s, hip-hop, and old-school music at a pop-art Barbra Streisand DJ booth. The Workshop produced the event.
