Design Miami presented its Visionary Award to Yves Béhar at a 400-person dinner December 2 sponsored by watch brand Officine Panerai. Ainsworth Associates produced the event, which took place in a tent in the design district. The menu from caterer Creative Edge Parties started with snapper crudo followed by pan-seared striped bass, Meyer lemon sorbet, and an array of sweets including tiramisu bites, lavender shortbread, chewy chocolate caramel tarts, and hazelnut biscotti.
In October, the women's board of Chicago's Field Museum hosted a gala with a China theme. HMR Designs employed rosy-hued decor that included pink uplighting on pedestals lining the dining room. Frost handled the lighting.
For a P.C.M.A. event in Chicago in January 2015, Kehoe Designs created a mirrored bar with a backdrop in the shape of the Chicago skyline. Pink and blue lights bathed the structure. The event took place at the Museum of Science and Industry.
In 2009, the Chicago museum hosted a blue-hued event to celebrate its diamonds exhibition. To underscore the theme, Frost created a video of falling diamonds that measured 50 by 660 feet.
As part of its holiday "Give Beautifully" campaign, Stella Artois hosted an interactive, immersive light installation December 10 to 12 at Skylight at Moynihan Station in New York. Guests were led through a dark tunnel to an empty room lit by a canopy of lights, which became interactive by following attendees around and gravitating towards them. The experience was photographed, and guests could share photos on social media in the adjacent Tasting Room.
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.
At the 2008 event in Chicago, Frost created a lighting scheme meant to evoke the glow of a fireplace. Gold Plexiglas topped long tables and added to the fiery effect.
Projection-mapped images appeared on the exterior of the venue at Pier 70. Both the DirecTV and Pepsi logos also appeared in lights on the building's façade.
Dodge was a sponsor and hosted a "Thrill Ride Experience" that let guests test out its high-performance vehicles.
Playboy hosted its party in a tent spanning Lot A of AT&T Park on Friday night. "This year, we are literally building our venue from the ground up, with a structure tent within [the park]," said Amanda Civitello, Playboy's vice president of events and promotions, before the event. "This allows us the freedom to design the event from scratch to ensure party guests have an amazing experience, as well as integrate our advertisers organically into the overall look and feel." Civitello worked with the Visionary Group to produce and design the event, which drew some 2,000 guests.
When Spain's Ushuaia Ibiza Beach Hotel planned its opening party for the 2013 season, the team brought in French production company High Scream to make the 12-hour party memorable—and highly visual. High Scream’s Romain Pissenem worked with XL Video's Ian Woodall to develop an idea for a projection mapped onto the hotel’s 30- by 20-meter swimming pool, which would become the largest-ever projection screen to date in Ibiza.
The line between movie magic and reality was hopelessly blurred at the Warner Brothers party for the American premiere of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in 2007. Following the film's screening, 900 guests found themselves reimmersed in the wizard world of ancient castles, prophesies, and enchanted fireplaces for the premiere party. In one area attendees could lounge under a ceiling that featured alternating projections of clouds dotting blue skies and stormy weather.
The Vanity Fair party included a complex custom build with five months of planning: The entry and exits featured 15 oversize red lanterns, each 20 feet high, illuminating the historic façade of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Inside, guests moved through a passageway that connected the building to a platform that filled an entire city block before coming out onto the arrivals carpet.
The main party space included a 30-foot-high glass wall facing Beverly Hills City Hall, which was specially lit for the occasion. The centerpiece of the party space, an 80-foot-long custom chandelier made from 500 translucent triangles, hung from the ceiling at irregular heights. The fixture was illuminated by moving lights from above in color schemes that varied throughout the night. The space included a 60-foot-long illuminated silver bar and paneled wood walls, and two billboard-size photographs from from the magazine’s archives decorated the room. The main party space opened onto a balcony with steps that descended onto the entry plaza and garden of City Hall, which included casual seating and a bar.
Held on February 5 at Liberty Grand, the massive event drew some 3,000 guests. The benefit had a "Night in the Woods" theme, which showed up in decor that had glowing green projections of trees. Decor & More handled the evening's design.
The Chicago art museum celebrated the opening of its new exhibition, "Van Gogh's Bedrooms," with a 450-guest gala on February 20. HMR Designs handled decor, and worked with Frost to create projections of the artist's works that surrounded the dining area. The idea was to let guests feel as though they were dining inside a Van Gogh painting.
For the March Madness Music Festival, which took place April 1 to 3 at Discovery Green in Houston, AT&T provided a lounge inside an igloo-style tent, with charging stations, a panoramic selfie station, and custom T-shirts.
After its morning presentation at the Lyric Theatre, which featured the theme “United We Stand, Together We Grow,” Univision hosted a lunch reception at Gotham Hall in New York on May 17. The colorful decor featured the network’s signature colors and logo.
Inside the 70-foot dome was a 360-degree virtual reality theater that held as many as 400 people. The experience was visually produced by Invisible Light Network and Dirt Empire, and Antfood provided sound effects.
One of the most visual C.E.S. booths this year belonged to LG, which showcased its OLED TVs with a tunnel created with 216 55-inch models. The tunnel showcased a variety of colorful images including celestial bodies on a three-minute demo loop. LG Business Solutions commercial displays division designed the tunnel in-house in partnership with HS-Ad.
The event had a pattern of glowing squares as part of a ceiling installation, which changed throughout the night.
