Teen Vogue Summit
Teen Vogue’s annual summit took place December 1 at 72andSunny in Los Angeles. The event, which was produced in house by CNX, featured a giant chalkboard where attendees could write why self-expression is important.
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Tableau Conference
Software company Tableau held its annual data- and analytics-focused conference at Hyatt Regency New Orleans in October. The event's catering played off the idea of the New Orleans' tradition of a Cajun shrimp boil, with elements that included nets and a boat filled with beer. The conference was catered by the hotel’s off-premise catering arm 1718 Catering & Events.
Photo: New Orleans Event Photography
'Good Trouble’ Dining Experience
To promote its upcoming series Good Trouble, Freeform hosted upscale dining experiences on November 29 and 30 in the back of trucks parked underneath the Hollywood sign. The iconic location was chosen to reflect the excitement the main characters feel after moving to Los Angeles. The experiences were produced by Blue Revolver.
Photo: Freeform/Troy Harvey
At Kimpton Hotel Vintage Portland in Oregon, groups have the option to add on a custom wine blending experience. The hotel’s resident wine expert will guide teams through the process, as well as teach them about varietals; participants are split into smaller groups to blend their own wine, including a Pacific Northwest Red Blend, Super Tuscan, or Rosé Blend. Guests receive a custom labeled bottle of the blended wine to take home at the end of the event. Pricing starts at $125 per person.
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At the Vol. 39 restaurant in the Kimpton Gray Hotel in Chicago, groups can enjoy a decadent tasting with “Caviar 101.” During this class, guests learn about the differences between the four varieties of caviar the restaurant offers. The tasting lesson is served with the traditional accoutrements such as sour cream, fresh herbs, chopped onions, and hard-boiled eggs.
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A plastic-wrap wall formed the front of the bar area, with only a narrow, horizontal strip of space through which the bartenders could communicate and pass drinks.
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Watermill Center Summer Benefit
On July 28, some 1,200 guests headed out to the Watermill Center in the Hamptons for the art organization’s annual benefit, one of the season’s biggest draws for philanthropists. Inside the dinner tent a chandelier positioned over the dance floor was made up of plastic recycling bags and pink fabric streamers.
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To give the cocktail area a focal point and conversation piece, event designer David Stark outlined the museum's historic home using fluorescent tape provided by 3M.
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Artist Jennifer Rubell created a cell padded with edible cotton candy.
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For the fourth annual Sweetlife festival, hosted by Washington eatery Sweetgreen at Merriweather Post Pavilion, the V.I.P. area’s DJ booth was outfitted with hundreds of bright orange traffic cones.
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Umbrellas made from brightly colored tablecloths and twisted stacks of seat cushions hung from the ceiling.
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As a surprising and humorous way to decorate the cavernous Park Avenue Armory's drill hall, the Jewish Museum and David Stark used more than 5,000 T-shirts to form walls and a ceiling. The custom tees were painted with tongue-in-cheek takes on classic slogans, like "Frankie Says Relax It's Purim" and "Got Spiel?" "We love the fact that the characters of Purim—Esther, Mordecai, Haman, and Ahasuerus—could somehow be re-contextualized as the Fab Four, and thinking of that iconic T-shirt in which the Beatles names were lain out in the Helvetica font, we immediately made the leap to lay out our Purim names in that same format. And then that led to the blur of other iconic T-shirt graphics mixed with references to Judaism and Purim—all with a big smirk," said Stark.
Photo: Susie Montagna
With a limited budget, Bruce sourced decals from a number of places to install representations of Pop Art-style graphics on the walls and columns of the lobby. The process lengthened production as the team applied and centered decals individually.
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The dining room's entryway featured a National Design Awards insignia made of packing crates and an archway of seat cushions.
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For its 20th birthday, Old Navy held a “selfiebration” in Times Square in October 2014, complete with a “balloon billboard.” Covered with 1,000 custom balloons, the 15-foot billboard was created by Deeplocal, which referred to the creation as a “selfie machine.” The marketing agency’s software grabbed images from Twitter that had the “sefliebration” hashtag and rasterized the photos to display them on the billboard via inflated balloons.
Photo: Deeplocal
National food festival Dessert Goals cuts down on lines by using timed entry, which allows a new batch of 300 attendees to enter the event every 90 minutes. Staffers use mobile devices to check guests in while they wait in line.
Photo: Pratya Jankong/Dessert Goals
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Imagination Ball
In October, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and Arsht Families hosted its children’s Imagination Ball. The afternoon event featured immersive activities and a light and dance show by iLuminate on the Lynn Wolfson Stage of the Ziff Ballet Opera House.
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The AIDS Foundation of Chicago's "World of Chocolate" Event
At the AIDS Foundation of Chicago's "World of Chocolate" event at the Hilton Chicago on November 29, a silent auction let guests bid at different levels starting at $50. Once a bid level was selected, guests would choose a number on a punchboard that corresponded to that bidding level. Event staffers dressed as professional boxers would then punch a hole through that number and reveal a corresponding prize. Lots included a gift certificate for a wine tasting, UGG Australia velvet men's slippers, and an overnight stay at Park Hyatt Chicago. The punchboard raised more than $14,000.
Photo: Courtesy of AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Before entering the museum, all guests had to complete a maze outside, which was constructed by Bayer Brothers Sets. Music, lights, and models dressed in mirror-covered body suits set the tone for the surreal evening.
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