News and trends in special events including bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs, birthday parties, Sweet 16 parties, debutante balls, corporate events, awards programs, fairs, festivals, galas, fundraisers and green/eco events.
The event: a high-profile celebrity bash for client Reebok in conjunction with the 2002 American Black Film Festival in Miami. The setting: the ultra-chic Shore Club hotel in balmy South Beach. The big question: "How to brand, but without hitting...
How do you turn heads at an 860,000-square-foot trade show? By turning to one of the world's top special event firms to turn your exhibit stand into an event in itself. That's what Volkswagen Group did for the 2002 North American International...
With New York-based client Lancome Paris calling for an awards gala of exceptional dazzle in spite of a tightened budget, Kevin Verronneau gathered his colleagues to take up the task. The five-member staff of New York-based Event Designs New York...
HAVING BEEN CREATED to highlight the Trinity River area of downtown Dallas, TrinityFest was all about flow. “Dallas had never in the history of the city done an event this big downtown,” says native son Steve Kemble, who produced the July Fourth...
SOMETIMES CREATING the perfect event is all about getting creative with what you've already got. That lesson was driven home full force for the design team at Vancouver, British Columbia-based Rare Indigo, assigned a mere six days to cook up a...
Fund-raisers have taken center stage in the world of special events. Special Events Magazine saw a 50 percent rise in entries over last year in the “Best Fund-raising Event” category for our 2002 Gala Awards competition. The fervor for fund...
The second time was a charm for a $130,000 incentive event produced for a major pharmaceutical industry client by DMC Pacific Agenda, San Francisco. Originally scheduled for Sept. 15, 2001, the event was rescheduled for June in the aftermath of 9...
Sometimes you have a vision for the event,” Doug Matthews muses. “Other times it doesn't gel until the last minute.” For the December “Glacial Fantasia” gala he produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, coming up with a design to dazzle 160...
