Event Ideas

August 17, 2018

HBO’s Insecure Fest

Stadium vendors offered food and drinks inspired by the show. The different areas had names such as "Tasty-Like," and "Thirsty-Like," as a reference to season three's episode titles.

Photo: Dorothy Hong

L.L. Bean Be an Outsider at Work

For its “Be an Outsider at Work” campaign, L.L. Bean partnered with co-working space Industrious to create pop-up work stations for people to work outside. The pop-up debuted at Madison Square Park in New York this summer. Jack Morton Worldwide designed and produced the activation, which included fabricating the custom workspace pods in its Princeton, New Jersey, facility.

Photo: Amy Sussman/AP Images for L.L.Bean

Bacardi Sound of Rum

Bacardi celebrated the first day of summer with its Sound of Rum kick-off event with Major Laser, which celebrated the music of the Caribbean islands and featured rum cocktails and on-theme installations by local artists. The event, which was produced by Mosaic, displayed a fresh fruit stand with Bacardi branding, inspired by Caribbean street markets. The event took place at Hubbard’s Cave in Chicago.

Photo: Jeff Schear/Getty Images for Bacardi

For the National Geographic Society’s June 2013 anniversary celebration in Washington, D.C., Syzygy Events International used custom glacier ice sculptures as on-theme centerpieces.

Photo: Robert Isacson

To celebrate the public opening of the Broad in Los Angeles in September 2015, event producer Ben Bourgeois was inspired by the art museum’s unique design. Laser-cut paper foldouts as tabletop centerpieces represented the architecture of Grand Avenue and surrounding buildings downtown, including Disney Hall and the new Broad. LED lights illuminated the representations of the buildings so they appeared to glow from within.

Photo: Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging

At Diffa Chicago’s Dining by Design in November 2015, Wolf Gordon by the Gettys Group’s table had a "fireplace" that was actually made of illuminated water vapor.

Photo: Barry Brecheisen for BizBash

In January 2016, the Walrus Foundation hosted its annual gala at the Fermenting Cellar in Toronto. The event paid homage to the Canadian city, and the skyline appeared in imagery at the bar, on the walls, and more. Tabletops were decked with miniature renderings of the Toronto skyline, created in paper by artist Kalpna Patel.

Photo: Tom Sandler

At a film benefit honoring Quentin Tarantino, held in December 2012 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the museum’s in-house event department adopted a monochromatic, masculine look. A mix of round and rectangular clear Lucite tables formed the dinner setup in the atrium. The sleek look was matched by clear chargers and ghost chairs; clusters of pillar candles replaced flowers as centerpieces.

Photo: Nadia Chaudhury/BizBash