Objective of Event: Motivate the sales force or sales channel

The Starbucks Leadership Experience is attended by 12,000 store, district and regional managers across the U.S. and Canada. They’re responsible for inspiring and managing the experience for millions of patrons of Starbucks stores. So engaging them in a three-day internal event designed to immerse them in corporate strategy and help them deepen their understanding of […]

Education was the name of the game at Google’s Helpful Hub, an environment designed to teach the brand’s retail sales associates about the key features of its flagship hardware products. Leveraging storytelling and eye-catching design, the brand took associates on an immersive, tech-fueled product journey that featured the integration of 144 devices and services and […]

The computer technologies designer hosts more than 3,500 guests at its annual developer conference. For its own footprint at the 2019 event, the company wanted a futuristic space that would invite developers to think about limitless possibilities. The pièce de résistance was a 20-foot-by-40-foot LED screen suspended overhead—flanked on either side by backlit tension fabric […]

“Building the Future” was the theme for Kowa Pharmaceuticals’ January 2020 National Sales Meeting. So the event’s design tended toward a steampunk/industrial aesthetic, with elements meant to evoke inspiration and forward thinking. For the general session stage, the dominant element was a large perforated metal truss structure (think Erector Set on steroids), and designers layered […]

Supermarket chain Loblaw got employees to walk 880,000 steps in their customers’ shoes. Inside the Halifax Convention Centre, the brand used facades and interiors to evoke different living situations in a Canadian town. Attendees experienced challenges their customers might face—hurriedly packing school lunches, looking at the near-empty pantries of a family facing food insecurity and […]