The Vancouver Convention Center's stairs featured color-blocked sections printed with the conference's tagline, "The next chapter starts here," which could be viewed from a distance.
Photo: Bret Hartman
4. Whitney Museum of American Art Fall Gala
#4 Benefit
The annual event brought in $4.3 million for the museum last year, when 620 guests gathered at the Whitney’s Breuer Building on the Upper East Side for the final time before the museum’s relocation downtown to the meatpacking district this year. Next: Fall 2015
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In Target's "Write the Next Chapter" social space, artist Daniel Duffy drew portraits of speakers using their quotes.
Photo: Bret Hartman
The Lincoln House of Design was a place for the carmaker and conference sponsor to honor the innovative thinkers that participate in its Reimagine Project. For instance, the Sketchbook Project, a collection of more than 30,000 sketchbooks submitted by artists from around the world, was a collaboration between wife-husband duo Sara and Steven Peterman. And TED fellow Christine Sun Kim displayed an installation made of piano wires that have been reimagined as speakers to sound out voice.
Photo: Marla Aufmuth
The event’s “Narrative Space” included a variety of interactive activities, including a photo booth known as TouchBooth that reacted to contact between people.
Photo: Jimmy Hamelin
Boccie ball was among the activities on offer.
Photo: Casey Rodgers
Citrus fruits in mini crates topped tables, and guests wore branded hats as giveaways.
Photo: Casey Rodgers
Dual sided projection
Disney Interactive
Ultra short throw blended projection
Sequoia Productions
Tent projection
Sequoia Productions
Tent projection
ACM productions
4mil LED wall
Ubisoft
Hi rez outdoor LED
Donahue Group
Versatubes for corporate
Production Plus
Outdoor LED
Donahue Group
Realistic ambient projection
OBO projections
Corporate staging projection
Avnet
The inside of the dome is lined with TV information kiosks and cutout images associated with energy production.
Photo: John Unrue
Elite designed a six-projector, 360-degree video for the dome's ceiling.
Photo: John Unrue
BrownHot Events used Signature Systems Group’s "Seagrass" sisal carpet at the tent for Veuve Clicquot’s Polo Classic event in October.
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Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic
About 4,000 guests took to Will Rogers State Historic Park for the third annual Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic on Saturday, with co-hosts like Rachel Zoe and Nacho Figueras. Producer BrownHot partnered with Mille Fiori Floral Design to create an eight- by 20-foot paper flower backdrop for the V.I.P. tent bar. Each flower was hand made and comprised of custom-printed stock, crepe paper, and tissue paper.
Photo: Claire Barrett Photography
L.A.'s Promise Gala
L.A.'s Promise hosted its annual gala, "Night of Magic," at Nokia on Tuesday, with a magic show produced by David Copperfield. Chad Hudson Events produced and designed the event, which included a photo booth complete with a Copperfield-style illusion. Hudson's team printed old magic posters, wheat pasted to corrugated metal sheets, and then distressed them for an evocative look. A light wall bar back used industrial lights mounted on a black wooden frame.
Photo: Sean Twomey/2me Studios
Sperry Tents’ Signature Blue Star Tent is handcrafted with genuine navy sailcloth panels dotted with white stars by sailmakers in coastal Massachusetts. It sports geometric support patches and festive pennant flags atop each peak. Support poles are wooden and hand-milled at a 1930s sawmill. The tent is available in six sizes: The largest, at 46 by 85 feet, holds 150 guests for a seated dinner. Prices are available upon request.
Photo: Lauren Methia Photography
The 24 Metre Trident Inflatable Dome from Brand Interactivation provides almost 4,000 square feet of floor space with no internal support poles or trussing and holds as many as 350 people. The unit is available for rent nationwide for $11,500 for three days, or it can be purchased for $70,000 and customized with colors and logos.
Photo: Courtesy of Brand InterActivation Zone SRL
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Anchoring and set up
Anchoring and set up
The Teepee Project
Several Miami properties hosted arty events surrounding Art Basel Miami Beach. The Teepee Project, featuring two 22-foot hand-painted teepees by artists Jen Stark and Misaki Kawai, were on display at Mondrian South Beach from December 2 to 14. The hotel launched the project with a dinner party on the property.
Photo: BFA NYC
The teepee-style tents can hold as many as 400 people.
Photo: Carl Sadd
Belvedere vodka's sleek tent had an illuminated bar and billowing white drapes. Fresh citrus fruits were displayed to highlight the brand's vodka flavors Lemon Tea and Pink Grapefruit.
Photo: Josh Sears for Event Creative
![Constellations Brands' 'Passport to Wine' tent represented a departure from previous years. 'The brand has typically executed this space using rich leathers and mahogany,' said Wagner. 'This year they asked for something that wouldn't be too far off from the brand's [traditional image], but would bring a modern, luxe wine-bar feel.' To achieve that look, Wagner and her team used faux boxwood hedge as the backdrop and brought in silver mirrors on which servers wrote the featured wines of the day. Organizers accented the space with silver travel accessories such as chrome binoculars, lacquered books, and a model airplane.](https://img.bizbash.com/files/base/bizbash/bzb/image/2012/10/997a4747.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&q=70&w=400)
Constellations Brands' "Passport to Wine" tent represented a departure from previous years. "The brand has typically executed this space using rich leathers and mahogany," said Wagner. "This year they asked for something that wouldn't be too far off from the brand's [traditional image], but would bring a modern, luxe wine-bar feel." To achieve that look, Wagner and her team used faux boxwood hedge as the backdrop and brought in silver mirrors on which servers wrote the featured wines of the day. Organizers accented the space with silver travel accessories such as chrome binoculars, lacquered books, and a model airplane.
Photo: Josh Sears for Event Creative
The Palmer House Hilton Hotel set up a tent to offer tastings from its Lockwood Restaurant and Potter's Lounge. To channel the venue's meld of old-world aesthetics and modern amenities, Event Creative designers filled the tent with plexiglass bars and crystal chandeliers.
Photo: Josh Sears for Event Creative
Attendees took part in intimate “tent talks,” where speakers like Colin Cowie hosted small groups for informal discussions over a picnic lunch inside tents provided by Shelter Company.
Photo: Sofia Negron
Attendees received wood-grain-inspired notebooks, complete with pencils decorated as arrows.
Photo: Laura Decarlo
Moto X Lounge at Sundance Film Festival
More subtle Motorla logos appeared on the wood that decorated the bar.
Photo: Courtesy of Park City Live Lounge
Create a cozy cabin atmosphere with log-shaped throw pillows from Spoon Sisters on couches in the lounge area. Guests can take the pillows, $19 each, home as gifts.
Photo: Courtesy of Spoon Sisters
Alicja Truesdale Home went simple, with pops of red against a rustic palette of browns.
Photo: Becky Yee Photography
The most luxurious accommodations in DreamVille were the Dream Lodges—large, elevated tents with a full-size bed, a mattress, linens, a locker, electricity, and a deck with chairs and a table. The lodges were produced by Dutch company G3 Festivals, and TomorrowWorld was the first time they were used in the United States.
Photo: Alex G Perez
Gifts for the Good Life created different "care packages" with survival supplies, including hangover relief for late nights, candies, games, snacks, and energy bars. Guests were also greeted at the airport by Colorado Travel Solutions staffers, who handed out backpacks filled with essentials, like water bottles, snacks, and travel pillow and blanket sets.
Photo: John Cain Sargent/Engage!
An easy-to-eat lollipop version of campfire s'mores was offered during the event’s dessert party.
Photo: Tammy Swales/Engage!
At registration, attendees were encouraged to pick their favorite pins, designed by Gifts for the Good Life, to add to their gift bags or wear during the event.
Photo: Carla Ten Eyck
Pieces of assorted local jerky were up for grabs in rustic Mason jars.
Photo: Sofia Negron
Digital stationery has come a long way—Paperless Post has partnered with decoupage artist John Derian to create a collection of 65 customizable designs, including ones with seasonal imagery like holly branch motifs and antique lettering. The digital invitations and envelopes cost less than $1 each.
Photo: Courtesy of Paperless Post
Brooklyn-based Custom Cookies creates holiday- and winter-themed treats that can be customized with company logos. The cookies cost $3.95 each, with discounts for large custom orders.
Photo: Courtesy of Custom Cookies
Festive drink stirrers from HeathOriginal are a cute addition to cocktail glasses. The cost is $15 for 12.
Photo: Barbie Hull Photography
Tropical Accents
The Museum of Modern Art's annual Party in the Garden in 2013 had a modern, tropical vibe. Inside the lobby and atrium of the New York event, exotic, lush greenery and pops of neon stood out against a stark white background.
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Arrivals Backdrops
The arrivals backdrop—featuring the Cartier and MoMA logos rendered in neon and marquee lights—echoed the dense arrangements of tropical greenery found inside the dinner space.
Photo: Nadia Chaudhury/BizBash
Branded Signs
During the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner weekend in 2012, Google and The Hollywood Reporter hosted an event that welcomed guests with an alphabet-board sign.
Photo: Daniel Schwartz
Neon Directions
At AOL's NewFront in 2012, neon signage in the arrivals tent pointed guests toward the event entrance at Highline Stages in New York.
Photo: Phillip Angert
The signage at the event tied into the product's creative campaign, which used black and white with a pop of yellow.
Photo: Courtesy of JackThreads
Taking advantage of the venue's indoor pool, members of the Aqualillies synchronized swimming troupe performed for guests, who viewed their underwater routine from a window in the entrance. Their uniform of black swimsuits and high heels set a stylish tone for the fashion event.
Photo: Courtesy of JackThreads
Guests could instantly share animated GIFs from the Studiobooth photo booth to their social media sites. They posed wearing frames from the collection as well as with basketballs in hand.
Photo: Courtesy of JackThreads
Pastry chef Dominique Ansel served desserts, including his chocolate chip cookie shots with milk.
Photo: Courtesy of JackThreads
Photo: Courtesy of Chicago Botanic Garden
"Transparency was a big message throughout the program," Production Glue executive producer Jennifer Kurland said of the decision to use a clear-sided tent. The hashtag #TalkingTransition was carved into plywood and displayed on the side of structure to encourage passersby to join the conversation online.
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Los Angeles Food & Wine
In one of the Lexus grand tasting's inspiring food presentations during L.A. Food & Wine, Big Sur's Post Ranch Inn served mini shaved ice cones in a metal bucket set up like a beach scene, with sugar for sand. Ingredients for the dessert came from the venue's garden.
Photo: Courtesy of Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival & Tyrone D. Washington
Among the creative presentations of passed hors d'oeuvres in the Breakers Mediterranean Courtyard was one that included chalkboard signage.
Photo: Lila Photo
Passed on trays covered with a bed of pea shoots, hors d'oeuvres from Creative Edge included chicken summer rolls, Tuscan grilled lemon shrimp with a white bean mousseline, and vegan banh mi.
Photo: Jika González for BizBash
Pulled pork sliders were placed atop an appropriately pig-shaped platter.
Photo: Lila Photo
Wood framing was a design motif that echoed throughout the event, including in a drink serving station.
Photo: David Crotty/PatrickMcMullan.com
At the bar, fresh herbs and berries were incorporated into the night's cocktails, like the signature basil pomegranate blueberry martini.
Photo: David Crotty/PatrickMcMullan.com
An enormous hedge—comprised of vines, boxwood, daisies, Vanda orchids, and calla lilies—stood in one area of the event and served as an unofficial step-and-repeat for many guests.
Photo: Jeff Thomas/ImageCapture
Airstar America provided several large lighted balloons with the American Express logo.
Photo: Kayla Hernandez for BizBash
Branding was present in other elements of the event, including ping-pong balls and oversize rings in Hermès silk scarf prints for the ring toss.
Photo: Matthew Carasella
Creative Edge catered the event, serving bite-size hors d'oeuvres on trays embellished with circular cutouts and the Oxygen logo. As a tongue-in-cheek way to emphasize its pop-up initiative, the network also decorated napkins with phrases like "Who knows where we'll pop up next!"
Photo: Rebecca McAlpin
A covered walkway and the logo in giant red letters created a dramatic entrance to the Crossfire premiere event.
Photo: Ben Dozer
Rebloom removed damaged or wilted flowers before delivering them to customers.
Photo: Courtesy of Rebloom
TEDActive
The light installation "Magical Underwater Thinking With Scott Watson" beckoned guests to take a whirl through its colorful pieces.
Photo: Marla Aufmuth
