Event Design Services
Making your events (and you) look good.
Event branding and design
It can overwhelm. It can underwhelm. Or it can feel just right.
Maybe it's a new event that has no visual language.
Maybe it's a corporate event that needs to live within an established brand.
Or maybe it's an annual event that simply needs an update from last year.
Humans are visual creatures. At events, we pick up on all the visual cues. This starts with the event branding, and branches out into all aspects of the event, from invitations and registration to signs and screens to gifts and thank yous.
Events are experiences, and event branding helps attendees understand the experience. Where they are. How to feel. Where it starts and ends. How to behave. Event branding and design can overwhelm, underwhelm, or feel just right.
For 20 years, Chalkbox has supported event producers with design and branding that connects with the audience to provide the intended experience.
Practical needs
Beyond the high-level branding, events have a lot of very practical design needs. Getting them right makes the experience seamless.
We've designed and produced an enormous number and variety of items in support of events.
Personal: This is often where the experience starts and ends. The registration process, credentials, welcome collateral, room keys get them started. When they depart, the gifts, thank yous, and impressions go with them.
Evironmental: This is the big stuff. It sets the mood. Moves the people. Injects energy. In our experience, this might include wayfinding, maps, wall and window graphics, photo ops, booths, banners, and dimensional signs and props.
Support: This is the small stuff. The nice touches that show you thought of everything. Menus at dinner, at the bar, in the rooms. Programs, agendas, notebooks, place cards, thank you cards, surveys, gift packaging, product lookbooks, and all sorts of other things.
Outside the box: What can you dream up? We've extended event branding to die-cut bar coasters, massive swimming pool logos, paper airplanes, golf cart wraps, pickleball paddles, lego sets, and more. Is this an opportunity for a never-before-seen.
Print and fabrication
Perfecting the dance.
The logistics of clients, ideas, deadlines, crises, new deadlines, approvals, printing, fabrication, and installation are sometimes, honestly, insane.
Our job is to take the making off your plate, and remain calm while we do. We make it more sane for you. When it's more sane for you, it's better for us, too.
- We know print in all its forms, inside and out.
- We know vendors who want our projects to succeed. We know their strengths and their limitations.
- We know when vendor deadlines are real, and when they can be stretched.
- We know when material constraints are real, and when they can be pushed.
- We know how to provide onsite solutions for last-minute items.
- We know how to troubleshoot and invent 11th-hour solutions.
We get everything designed, printed, fabricated, shipped, and/or installed. You look good. And you keep your attention on more important things.
Simplify the journey
Whatever kind of experience you're trying to create, the visual will be part of that experience. We'd love to take the heavy lifting of that component off your plate. We're based in Seattle, but support clients and events nationally and (sometimes) overseas.
Let’s create an experience.