scenic

The Paintbrush ball in Chicago celebrated Marwen's silver anniversary with ubiquitous pops of the metallic hue. Guests entered the dinner tent through a tunnel of silver balloons.

Speakers included Iva Fattorini, the chair of the Global Arts and Medicine Institute at the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi.

Organizers used the theme of “Wow” in the event’s digital and print materials and throughout McCormick Place, including 12-foot-high letters in the concourse.

Organizers created a large theater inside one hall of the Orange County Convention Center to host the event's four global sessions.

Prior to each of the four global sessions, screens in the front of the room displayed feeds from external social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.

Two custom structures created a sense of arrival at the entrance to the residence of the German ambassador. They reflected the modern architecture of the residence, and the long design drew guests into the reception hall. Since the attractive structures featured the Opera Ball logo, they also doubled as a step-and-repeat.

Producers cited the 3-D city-theme stage sets as a highlight of the 89th Oscars.

RAW’s temporary immersive public art installation called Prismatica comprises pivoting prisms, which create over­lapping transparencies, patterns, and reflections on their surroundings. Visitors are able to turn the giant prisms like a giant kaleidoscope. Prismatica debuted at the Luminothérapie Competition in Montreal in 2014, and has traveled to Washington, Chicago, Ottawa, and Calgary.

Stage backdrops complemented the year's logo design, with geometric, 3-D lines and circles. Google’s events and experiences team, as well as the developer marketing team, worked with Sparks on the event production.

MTV created its most ambitious stage design yet for the 2017 Video Music Awards, held in Los Angeles in August. Stufish Entertainment Architects rigged 340,000 pounds of equipment to 560 individual points at the Forum. Six individual stages—including two main stages, a far stage, a “mosh” stage, and a central stage with a catwalk—allowed performers to connect with audience members. Overall, the reflective, metallic set used more than 8,200 feet of LED lines and 100,000 individual LEDs.

The second Girlboss Rally business conference was held in New York in November, bringing together more than 600 attendees and 30 speakers to discuss the meaning of success. The event featured a feminine, cheery color palette of pinks, reds, oranges, and whites. The stage design by the Gathery offered a simple—yet stylish—backdrop of curved shapes that picked up the same colors and styles as the rest of the conference.

Every two years, Hampton by Hilton hosts its hotels’ general managers for three days of learning, networking, community-building, and immersion into the brand’s culture. For the November 2016 event in Orlando, the company worked with AgencyEA to weave the concept of happiness throughout the entire experience. In addition to highlights such as a vending machine that only worked when the guest was smiling and a hexagon-shape swing set, the conference’s 17 general session speakers delivered remarks on a custom stage designed to look like a wink and a smile.

Bulgari unveiled its newest property, the Bulgari Resort Dubai, in December with an over-the-top opening gala featuring live music, ballet performances, and pyrotechnic shows. A glamorous, star-shape stage was set up in front of the new resort, and Italian jazz singer Matteo Brancaleoni performed.

City of Hope, a nonprofit cancer treatment and research center, held its Spirit of Life award gala in November in Los Angeles. The event, which was produced and designed by Namevents, had a sunset beach theme with blue, yellow, and pink tones. Rising from the stage was a series of oversize panels hung from the ceiling, creating the overall effect of a setting sun.

At the ASU GSV Summit, held in Salt Lake City in May, the main stage had an interesting three-dimensional design. Pieces of vinyl-wrapped foam hung from the ceiling and were mounted to the flat vinyl backdrop to give it the effect. AgencyEA designed and produced the event.