Anderson Ranch Arts Center hosted its 21st Annual Recognition Dinner July 20 at the historic Hotel Jerome in Aspen, Colorado. The event featured cocktails, dinner, and a live auction of works by contemporary artists, which was facilitated by Sotheby’s. Design team Snarkitecture created the mountain landscape-inspired decor. All proceeds benefited Anderson Ranch’s educational programs.
For Intel’s keynote speech, Fireplay, a creative and design studio, created a custom laser effect for the speech backdrop. To create the effect, Fireplay designed and implemented a system of moving spheres, LED illuminators, and pulsed high-power laser beams to symbolize data flowing between connected devices and cloud-based network nodes.
"The LED Halo screen at Charity: Water's fund-raiser in San Francisco was unlike anything I've ever seen. It was custom-fabricated for the event to immerse 522 dinner guests into the daily life of residents of Ethiopia who need clean water. The 'halo' consisted of 40,000 pounds of LED wall, truss, lighting, audio equipment, and cables. The LED wall was provided by Global Trend Productions; working with Trademark Event Production, they designed a way to hang this circular wall using the frames of the LED tiles. The second, third, fourth, and fifth layers of LED tile were hung from custom-machined L-brackets to lighten the load. Elle Chan from Trademark said that they couldn't have built such a big wall without the custom fabrication. Throughout the event, the Halo displayed a 360-degree view of the daily walk that one resident of Ethiopia takes to procure water, plus live totalizers of the amount raised at the gala. (The totalizer was powered through an app custom-made for the event by All of It Now.)" —Robyn Hagan Cain, San Francisco contributing editor
Netflix’s event took place in a tented party space at 9900 Wilshire. The streaming platform worked with Best Events to create a nightclub vibe, which included a psychedelic, neon-lined photo booth.
L’Oréal Paris hosted its 13th-annual Women of Worth awards, a philanthropic program that honors women who are making a difference in their communities across the country, at the Pierre hotel in New York in December. Jes Gordon handled the event’s design, framing out the entrance to the dining room with an archway of branches and using a palette of rich purple hues, along with sparkling table linens.
