10 Best Ideas of the Week: Absolut Juice and Lizzo’s Custom Visors, FX and Vanity Fair’s Desert Chic Emmys Party, a Whiskey Train Car Tour

High West Distillery, a spirits manufacturer based in Park City, Utah, held a cross country train tour that invited people to sample spirits and learn about the distilling process. The experience stopped at events including the Austin Food & Wine Festival in April, Bar Convent Brooklyn in June, Chicago Tribune Food Bowl Night Market in August, and Bourbon & Beyond in Louisville, Kentucky, in September. Manifold produced the experience.
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At Advertising Week New York, which ran September 23 to 26, a small fleet of food trucks were wrapped in custom graphics from sponsors. The printing company Quad sponsored a Van Leeuwen ice cream truck that served afternoon treats. It rechristened flavors with on-theme names such as "Chief Strawberry Officer" and "Lead-Generating Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip."
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Jordanian fashion designer Nafsika Skourti held a dinner in the middle of the desert in Wadi Rum, Jordan, in July. The event held her transparent art installation, “The Invisible Room,” and featured a soft mauve tablescape with customized plates with gilded flatware by the Tabletop Company, desert rock centerpieces, and towering white and pink orchids.
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The Television Academy’s official Emmy’s after-party took place Sunday at the L.A. Live Event Deck. The ball had a "Brilliance in Motion" theme, evoking swirling water through a dramatic ceiling installation that used more than 310,000 strands of silk thread and almost 77,000 individual crystals. Sequoia productions designed and produced the event.
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HBO celebrated its 137 nominations—and big win for Game of Thrones—with a joint event with Warner Media at the Pacific Design Center on Sunday night. HBO’s Cindy Tenner and Ashley Covarrubias worked with designer and producer Billy Butchkavitz to create an “HBO Nightclub” feel. Guests entered through a candle-lined entrance, and the focal point of the main space was a 25-foot-tall gold head sculpture with eight faces. Agile Eye Solutions handled all large-scale decor elements; other custom elements included a 40- by 16-foot HBO logo, 600 feet of lounge screens, and three faux-gold sequin dance floors.
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FX Networks’ Alana Rosu teamed up with Vanity Fair to host an Emmys eve cocktail party at Craft on Saturday night. The event, which was designed and produced by April Luca and Gold Sky Productions, took on a stylized desert chic theme. A large fan palm and desert fauna installation led guests—including Billy Porter, Sam Rockwell, and Lin-Manuel Miranda—from the step-and-repeat to the main event space.
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Absolut Juice, Absolut vodka’s line of strawberry and apple flavored vodkas, celebrated its partnership with Lizzo with an event at W Hotel South Beach, after the singer and rapper’s Miami Beach tour stop on September 11. Glitter covered apples and strawberries adorned the bottle silhouette trellis that served as the entrance. MKG produced the event.
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A glam station featured custom Lizzo lyrics. Guests could customize visors with bedazzled apples and strawberries.
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A custom DJ booth covered in apples and strawberries had a “Squeeze the Moment” Absolut Juice backdrop.
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To celebrate National Indoor Plant Week September 17 to 21, Orbitz announced it will open 10 plant-filled suites at Chicago’s Kimpton Gray Hotel in October. Available for overnight stays from October 18 to 20, the rooms each have different designs conceived by the nearby Garfield Park Conservatory. The Desert Room will be decked with cacti—live plants and on pillows and other decor.
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