Beverage coasters offered music and C.E.S.-related facts.
A giant LED wall responded to guests’ movements and the music.
Ahead of March Madness, Marriott International—the official hotel partner of the N.C.A.A.—hosted a basketball-theme breakfast at the Renaissance New York Times Square Hotel's R Lounge on March 12. The event featured basketball-theme floral centerpieces by Olga Sahraoui, as well as brackets for attendees to fill out. The hotel handled event production in-house.
The event brought in ESPN and Big 10 Network commentator Robbie Hummel to offer guests advice on filling out brackets, and had on-theme catering treats such as basketball cake pops.
Women’s lifestyle brand FabFitFun is celebrating its latest spring box with a colorful installation at Grand Central Market in Los Angeles, which runs through Sunday. The Instagrammable installation displays the boxes in an urban garden with hand-painted cacti and plants from local florist Strega Flora by Nikki Pettus.
189 by Dominique Ansel transformed its space into an outdoor picnic-inspired pop-up serving limited-edition burgers this week. On-theme decor in the pop-up included green turf rugs, picnic displays, and chess boards. The restaurant worked with production designer Kelly Sheridan to produce the pop-up.
The pop-up also offered guests the chance to relax in a hammock alongside additional picnic-theme props.
Margarine brand Becel hosted a pop-up greenhouse restaurant in Toronto from February 28 to March 2. The space was designed to mimic the feel of a greenhouse, complete with hanging garden lights, sod flooring, and plants as table decor. Everything inside of the pop-up was made entirely out of plants.
The event producers wanted to ensure all materials in the greenhouse were green. A branded wall was created with a soy-based epoxy and built without nails.
Becel partnered with TV personality and interior designer Jillian Harris, registered dietitian Tori Wesszer, and chef Matt Dean Pettit to develop signature dishes for PLNT’s menu. The menu and dinnerware were created with plant-based materials. Dishes included vegan mushroom wellington, crunchy guacamole bites, and deviled eggs.
For an upscale St. Patrick’s Day-theme party idea, candy company Sugarfina has a dedicated St. Patrick’s Day line packaged in lucite cubes that cost $7.50 each. The Lucky Pints o’ Beer (left) are beer-shaped gummies with a citrus flavor, while the Pot o’ Gold Pearls are chocolate droplets in gold candy shells.
For a St. Patrick’s Day-inspired cocktail idea, Elegant Affairs’ Luck o’ the Mojito has lime juice, fresh mint leaves, rum, sugar, club soda, and Creme de Menthe.
One of the primary functions of a name badge is to increase conversations and networking. For the ninth iteration of the Engage! luxury-wedding business summit, held in Las Vegas in 2012, name badges served as an icebreaker: The number of crystal charms on the tag identified how many times the badge-wearer had attended an Engage! conference. Veteran attendees had nine balls, while first-timers had one.
Badges are also an opportunity to give attendees necessary information—without making them carry around a heavy event program. At C2 Montréal last month, attendees wore klik name badges from Montreal-based technology company PixMob. In addition to displaying guest credentials in a large, easy-to-read format, the badges connected them to the klik technology—an audience engagement solution that can be used for ticketing and registration, data and analytics, event communication, and much more. The LED wearable can light up in 16-million different colors in response to remote control commands. In addition to badges, the klik technology can be used in wristbands and in buttons on lanyards; event organizers can rent or buy the wearables.
If every attendee is going to be wearing a badge, it's a good chance to enhance an event's decor. For the 2016 edition of Engage!, held in Palm Beach, Florida, Vanessa Kreckel of Two Paper Dolls designed the colorful leather name tags, which tied into the event’s tropical theme.
