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Do I Have To Use In-House AV?
Event Planners Ask: "Do I Have To Use In-House AV?" When you're in event planning mode, sometimes you come across a piece of your event plan so succinct that it doesn't make sense to do anything besides stamp it with an "Approved" or "Yes!" But is that the best thing...
American Heart Association
In past years, we’ve collaborated with the American Heart Association’s Women’s Board to bring the “Go Red for Women” theme to life at the annual fundraising luncheon. Our production includes décor for their silent auction area, backdrops customized to the...
Eastern Iowa FCA Home Drive & Banquet
Every year, the Eastern Iowa chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) brings together an audience of approximately 650 people, including prominent athletes, to reflect on and inspire their mission for the year. For nearly a decade, we've worked...
Albrecht Acres | Green Bay Packer Tailgate Tour
Albrecht Acres, a recreational camp for people with special needs, first approached our team to create an emotional video highlighting the story of the camp and the lives it has touched. After a successful collaboration with their team on that project, we then...
University of Iowa Health Care
In 2018, our team was invited to collaborate with the creative team at University of Iowa Health Care for the Excellence Every Time event series. This bi-annual corporate event series has been an opportunity for our event professionals to produce cutting-edge...
Transamerica Transform Tomorrow Tour
The Transamerica Transform Tomorrow Tour is a multi-phase series of events encompassing video production, logistics coordination, and event execution in seven cities. Pre-production begins with bi-coastal travel to capture video content of each office’s team,...
University of Nebraska Foundation
When the University of Nebraska Foundation was looking for a unique opportunity to celebrate their billion-dollar fundraising campaign for the university, we transformed an airplane hangar at the Strategic Air & Space Museum into a multimedia venue for dinner,...
Iowa SHRM Conference
The Iowa chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management hosts an annual conference in the Corridor area for more than 4,000 human resource professionals in Eastern Iowa. In recent years, we have have provided event management support, stage design...
Mississippi Valley Fair
Every year, 100,000 people flock to the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds to listen to chart-topping music artists during a series of outdoor concerts. How do you give 50,000 people a magnificent view of the stage – no matter where they’re sitting? Provide them...
University of Arizona Foundation
We knew the public campaign launch of the University of Arizona Foundation would be an exciting challenge from our first conversation. In addition to producing an event for 500 people with less than four months for preparation, our team designed custom event branding...
The Future of Event Design
I was reading BizBash yesterday, one of my favorite event publications, and found an interesting article on the future of event design. This article struck a cord with me, not just as someone who designs events, but also from the perspective of a company heavily...
Event Planners: Try These Online Collaboration Tools
We came across this comic the other day and laughed out loud. Seriously, how often do we feel this way? Besides the paranoia of being framed for a crime all whilst lost in translation of a conference call, it’s easy for “the ease of technology” to interfere with the...
Flood of 2008: Five Years Later
Five years ago today, the Cedar River crested during the Flood of 2008. It was a hard summer in Cedar Rapids, with thousands of homes and businesses impacted. The recovery process has been long and grueling, but the progress we have made is worth celebrating. It was a...