Designing Events That Dazzle with Festive Trends
As the holiday season approaches, the world of event design and festive trends takes on a sparkling transformation. At the forefront of this festive shift are the 2024 festive trends that inspire and shape the most memorable celebrations. Whether you’re planning a corporate gathering, an intimate soiree, or a grand public event, these key design elements will ensure your event is infused with the warmth and wonder of the season.
On-trend Colours: Mauve & Gold: A Palette of Elegance and Modernity
This year’s holiday festive colour trends are defined by the luxurious combination of mauve and gold. This pairing captures the essence of festive elegance, with gold symbolising traditional holiday luxury and mauve offering a sophisticated, contemporary touch. This palette sets a rich, inviting tone, perfect for creating an atmosphere that is both warm and stylish.
Décor that Dazzles: Elevating Every Space with Stylish Festive Trends
The heart of any festive trend event is its décor, and this season’s festive trends are all about making a statement. Centrepieces play a pivotal role in setting the festive mood, and this year, we’re seeing a shift towards more creative and personalised designs.
Christmas Hurricane
Standing 200mm tall, this centrepiece combines a luxurious gold hurricane with a trio of baubles, a glossy ribbon, and three gold tealight votives. The entire ensemble is presented on a gold-mirrored hex base, reflecting light and adding a festive sparkle to any table.
Geometric Christmas
For a more modern aesthetic, consider a 300mm high geometric sculpture. This freestanding centrepiece pairs metallic golden hues with subtle lighting, and is adorned with golden baubles and mauve ornaments, all resting on a gold-mirrored hex base.
Christmas Digiprint
If you’re aiming for something truly customisable, the Christmas Digiprint is the answer. This internally lit centrepiece, measuring 573mm by 310mm, is perfect for large-scale events, offering endless possibilities for personalisation.
Transforming your stage into a festive wonderland is crucial for a memorable event that’s truly on-trend with this year’s festive trends. This year, 3D scenic panel Christmas trees, specialty lighting, and gobo projections are trending. These elements not only bring the holiday spirit to life but also offer a versatile backdrop for any type of performance or presentation.
Pixel Totems: A key festive trend is to create a memorable entrance or feature wall with linked pixel totems. These displays can also be used for wayfinding or as digital banners, bringing a digital festive ambiance to any space.
Christmas Scenic Panel Set: Decorate your stage with scenic panel Christmas trees, enhanced by purple and golden lighting, or create impact with an illuminated event backdrop. These designs offer versatility and can be tailored to different event themes.
Christmas Bauble LED Set: Designed with Encore’s Round LED series, this stage set offers a unique visual experience, with creative designs like abstract LED chandeliers that perfectly complement other LED screen panels and Astera tubes.
Lighting Design: Setting the Mood
Lighting is the unsung hero of event design and creative festive trends, particularly during the festive season. Christmas-themed gobos are a subtle yet effective way to add ambient lighting that enhances the overall theme. Project these onto walls and floors to add texture and depth to your event space, creating a truly immersive environment.
Festive Gobos: Available in a large variety of steel, glass, and colored options, Christmas-themed gobos can be custom-branded and projected onto any event space to enhance the festive ambiance.
Christmas Media Backdrop:
This festive trend media backdrop not only brings joy and beautiful visuals to your event but also promotes a sense of togetherness by capturing and sharing memorable moments.
Conclusion
This holiday season, the focus is on creating festive trend events that are not just visually stunning but also deeply engaging. By incorporating these festive trends and top tips for Christmas parties into your event design, you’ll ensure that your celebrations are not only on-trend but also unforgettable. From luxurious colour palettes to innovative stage designs and personalised décor, these elements will help you craft the perfect festive atmosphere. Let’s make this holiday season one to remember with events that truly shine.
Want to bring some these festive trends to life for your event? Get in touch with Encore
Tech Innovation Roundup
Get ready to LEVEL UP your events in 2024 with Encore! We’re committed to empowering you with cutting-edge technology and world-class services to create extraordinary moments and engaging experiences. Check out our latest inventory updates and get ready to take your events to the next level!
On this page:
- AI-tech for enhanced engagement and event insights (AI-driven insights, AI-powered translation in real-time, audience engagement analytics, AI-directed multi-camera systems for video meetings)
- Digital tools to take your take your event management to the next level (simplified presentation management, interactive audience polling, seamless event registration & check-in platform)
- Light equals drama for immersive experiences (LEDs, Moving Head lights, Haze generators)
- Picture perfect – ultra-high definition mobile displays, 4K cameras and broadcast mixers
AI Solutions
for next-gen events
Events enhanced by Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Remove language barriers through AI-powered translation in real time
AI Translate
Encore is the first event services company to offer AI-powered translation and interpretation technology to corporate events. AI Translate is a revolutionary AI solution that bring attendees closer to the speaker, no matter the language. AI Translate streams translated audio directly to connected listeners’ smart devices who can seamlessly switch between languages of their choosing, in real-time.
Link your attendees to your app with AI Translate’s lightweight SDK, which includes AI Interpretation and AI Translate Moments features. Attendees can share videos with professional quality audio in any language, serving as an advertisement for your event.
Key benefits
- Provide access to any language in real-time
- Stream translated audio directly to attendee smartphones at a conference, international product launch or other live event: No need to extensively plan and resource for live interpreters.
- Translate presentations or audio into text so attendees can follow along in real-time
- Provide transcripts for sessions delegates miss, or as a record of key presentations
- Scalability: capable of supporting unlimited number of concurrently connected users
Discover what your audience really thinks and feels about your event
AI Insight
Have you ever wondered what your participants are really thinking and feeling during meetings and events?
Well, now you can with AI Insight.
With AI Insight, you can easily track attendance, engagement, and participation levels of each delegate, helping you to identify the success of sessions and activity areas. You can also gather feedback from attendees in real-time, to help you tailor your presentations, adjust your communication style, and make more informed decisions about your meeting project.
Key benefits
- Gather data on interests, preferences, and behaviour
- Enables personalised experiences based on AI-driven insights
- Tailor content and experiences to increase engagement (and measure impact of changes)
- Identify areas where delegate may be disengaged and provide recommendations on how to improve
AI-Directed multi-camera system brings TV and Movie magic to your boardroom video conference meetings
Ever wondered why we can look at a TV screen for hours but video meetings leave us drained? In a world-first, you can now leverage AI-directed multi-camera system will level up your video meetings into a rich engaging experience.
Three 6K network cameras create an immersive view, fostering close connections between participants. Powered by Artificial Intelligence, the system performs smart, real-time edits, seamlessly transitioning between different shots and angles to offer an engaging and effective experience. Gone are the days of low-quality conference room web cameras where you can barely see who’s in the room and who’s talking.
Key benefits
- Creates immersive meeting experiences
- Boost engagement and productivity
- Super sharp, crisp video with dynamic light optimisation to adjust for low lighting conditions
- Focuses on human interactions, it can effortlessly adapt to diverse room layouts
- Dynamic perspective: captures speaking participants from different angles, non-verbal listener reactions and a full room overview
Digital products by Encore to take your events to the next level
Managing multi-room presentations & speakers’ content made easy
Content1
Stressed about managing the multitude of presenters, presentations and papers at your next conference?
Let Encore organise the content from all your presenters with Content1.
Leave the heavy lifting to Encore experts and our Content1 presentation collection and distribution solution. Presenters can upload their materials and revisions to the Content1 portal from anywhere. Onsite, they can make last minute presentation adjustments in our Speaker Ready Room.
When it’s showtime, presenters will find everything ready to go, avoiding the last-minute scramble of switching laptops or uploading files.
Key benefits
- Presenters can upload files from anywhere
- Onsite, presentations are sent to the right room and cued-up for presenters.
- Dedicated Encore Project Manager
- Speaker Ready Room and onsite presenter support, including presentation and asset checking
- Remote monitoring
- Post-event analytics
Level up in-room and online audience interaction
Live online polling for events
Get inside the minds of your attendees with Encore Polling+ event technology that lets you ask questions and receive feedback in real time – it’s easy to use and highly effective.
Encore’s live audience polling platform, Polling+, converts event attendees into active participants. Polling+ expands engagement and improves learning outcomes by using a stand-alone, cloud-based engagement solution that leverages polling, quizzes, Q&A and surveys.
Encore’s Polling+ empowers allows your audience to give their thoughts. Get live feedback on hot topics and see everyone connecting with the content of your event. Say goodbye to traditional event data and hello to the new frontier of event insights in real time. Don’t be limited to just attendance numbers, get detailed feedback from your audience and real insight into engagement.
Key benefits
- Drive audience engagement with Polls, Quizzes and Q&A
- Polling+ can be customised to match your branding and user interaction preferences.
- Participants can be identified or anonymous
- Questions can be moderated or unmoderated
- Participants can upvote or downvote questions
Level up your event registration & check-in process with Encore + RSVP
Simple, Seamless, Event Invitation and Check-in
Setting up an event website just got easier. Introducing Encore RSVP, an easy-to-use online tool that lets you create your own website, with sign up form, full branding control and integrated check-in invites.
Encore RSVP makes it so simple to create your event webpage the way you want it. The online tool takes you through each step allowing you to see each element take shape as you build it. Drag and drop elements if you want to move sections around.
Key benefits
- Build a unique event webpage with all of the details in one place, including agendas, speakers, sponsors, venue info & maps.
- Design & Customisation: Make your event RSVP page reflect your event and brand with powerful customizable options.
- Custom Data Collection: Design your registration form to collect the data you need from your attendees, with a full range of question formats.
- Guest List Management: Upload your own ‘Invitee List’ for a private event or leave registration open to all for a public event.
- Email Invitations & Reminders: Create customized and branded emails for invitations, reminder emails and joining instructions.
- Response Dashboards: Use our easy-to-view dashboard to instantly see responses, or search, filter, and export all your registration data.
- Add Meal Preferences & Secondary Events
- Check-In: Handle event check-in onsite for guests as they arrive at your event, all from within the platform.
- Seamless Data Exports to provide lists and work with 3rd-party products like badge printing, certificates and post-event archiving.
LED: Light Equals Drama
LED Astera Tubes
LED Walls
LED Cubes
LED 3D Formations
LED screens, walls, cubes and 3D formations can breathe new life into your experience and transform any space with rich, immersive content. And our Wireless LED ASTERA tubes can frame out entrances, attract attendees to your activation or bring products to life at experiential events and brand activations. LED in any formation gives you the power to reinforce your messaging with stunning, attention-grabbing visuals. And if you don’t have the team or tools to create content, we’ll take care of that for you to. Our multimedia and graphic experts can bring your vision to life!
Key benefits
- Displays rich, vibrant content, no matter how bright or dim the background light is
- Scalable and adaptable for a variety of settings and event types
- Screens become installations with LED used in 3D formations, this giant cube ceiling features or smaller construction used as visually amazing DJ table
- Can appear as flat or curved walls — both convex and concave — depending on preference
- Illuminate a stage, frame a presenter or performer or add impact to entrance areas and more
Want to make a dramatic impact with LEDs in your event? Get in touch
Moving Heads that turns heads
Developed for mixed use indoors and outdoors, and in all conditions, RIVALE PROFILE, with its unique visual signature, is unparalleled on the market. Weight determines performance, and RIVALE PROFILE weighs only 30.8 kg. It is capable of outstanding performance unprecedented for a product in this category.
To allow you more creativity and freedom in your lighting design, RIVALE PROFILE has been provided with continuous rotation of the pan and tilt movement. RIVALE PROFILE is fitted with a brand new high-efficiency 450-watt sealed mono-block LED module calibrated at 6500 K that offers a luminous flux of 30,000 lumens with optimal positioning on a black body to obtain perfect light neutrality.
The proprietary optical system has 13 lenses, delivering a 13-to-1 zoom ratio and zoom range of 4 to 52°. Equipped with a 160 mm frontal lens, RIVALE PROFILE can produce an ultra-intensive beam of 4°, close to that of AYRTON’S famous “LT“ versions. Encore is the first AV company in Australia to receive these cutting-edge new fixtures.
Key benefits
- Suitable for indoors or outdoor events (IP65 rated)
- Powerful moving profile and 30,000 lumens makes it suitable for large rooms
- Extremely accurate positioning and versatile with infinite pan and tilt rotation
Enhance lighting with the most am-HAZE-ing effect
MDG ATMe single high output HAZE generator
Key benefits
- Elevate your light show to the next level with the best haze on the market
- Variable haze output that can be controlled from your DMX/RDM device
- Lowest fluid consumption on the market and a total run-time of 46 hours
If you are planning a professional light show, a great haze machine is pretty much essential. The finest haze on the market just got better, with the ATMe single high output haze generator.
With this product, Encore can enhance its custom-lighting and laser show for your event, as the particles from the haze machine will help the lighting stand out and make the show much more exciting.
Whether you are using haze in a subtle manner, or covering the air surrounding the entire stage, the attention can always remain on the performance. It is a breathtaking display and there are so many ways to showcase your creativity with a light show.
Pixel perfect: ultra-high-definition displays and cameras that has to be seen to be believed
Break the fold and push the boundaries in presentations and live viewing experiences
Mobile LED Display
Nothing beats our fine pixel mobile 135″ LED screens for big-impact presentation in smaller venues. They are super-thin, adjustable-height and mobile, so you can use them anywhere for a innovative visual experience for your attendees. With the seamless large screen and superior built-in Harman Kardon speakers, be ready to impress your audience everywhere from high-end board rooms and receptions to galleries, auditoriums, and other large venues.
Key benefits
- Foldable screen design and movable flight case enhances mobility: can be transported via traditional freight elevators, large passenger elevators; makes for swift and effortless delivery from one venue to another
- Built-in motorised adjustable stand: Easily set the perfect height with built-in motorised floor stand and ability to save up to 3 different preferences for recurring use
- Display multiple content on a single screen with up to 4 different inputs (Picture-by-Picture) or a screen within another screen (Picture-in-Picture) in real time.
- True-to-life colours that shine bright and 4K & HDR/HLG support for engaging visuals
Ultra-High Definition & High Dynamic Range 4K Cameras and Mixers
Encore has the latest in high-end professional video and broadcast equipment, producing ultra-high-definition picture quality that will amaze your audience.
Our industry leading range of 4K cameras have high dynamic range and 23x optical zoom for a broadcast quality (/jaw-dropping) production.
Our 4K cameras feed into a highly versatile and professional live production switcher and broadcast control panel with advanced functionality to enable live-casting the keynote presentation to a giant on-stage screen, streaming live around the world, or creating a commercial quality recording for sale
Key benefits
- High-Quality 4K & HDR shooting with professional system features
- Streaming capabilities with 4K quality and SRT protocol support
- Wireless control from tablet or smartphone for remote production
- Broadcast-ready professional features suitable for any kind of meeting or event
Want to learn how you can leverage these innovative technologies at your next event?
Get in touch with Encore today!
One of the most beautiful, intricate and technically complex stage designs of 2015. Encore delivered a visually captivating event for the Australian Hotels Association (AHA) Awards for Excellence at The Star Sydney. Celebrating the best of the hotel service industry, the event offered guests a visual feast, combining complex stage sets, intricate styling, technically advanced projection mapping and strategically prepared video content.
Inspired by the geometric logo elements the Encore’s event production team built a custom stage design comprised of a 20x5m hard projection set interspersed with coloured acrylic panels to emphasise the geometric elements of the clients’ logo. Video and imagery was projected onto the 3D set using state-of-the-art projection mapping, illuminating the stage in a thousand colours that drew the audience’s attention and ensured a memorable result.
Projection Mapping uses everyday video projectors, but instead of projecting on a flat screen (e.g. to display a PowerPoint), light is mapped onto any surface, turning common objects of any 3D shape into interactive displays. More formally, projection mapping is “the display of an image on a non-flat or non-white surface”.
Selina Rumble, General Manager of Partnerships & Events at the Australian Hotels Association was delighted with the creative event design that perfectly answered the Association’s brief to deliver a memorable occasion.
“The Australian Hotels Association has worked with the team across Australia for nearly 10 years, and the team know how to push boundaries to produce a stellar result every time. They went above and beyond for our Awards for Excellence, delivering not only a visually stunning experience but a seamless event as well for our 500 guests.
“Whilst a celebration is memorable in itself, we delight in using technology to create a striking event environment that our guests want to share with their friends. Staging Connections have the technology, the team and most of all, the know-how, to deliver special events that continue to impress our guests,” said Ms Rumble.
Stu Buchanan, Event Director at Staging Connections led the team
in managing and producing the entire event.
“It was a star-studded event and we were keen on impressing both our client and the event’s attendees. Our team worked hard to design the multimedia for the event that took over 125 hours to prepare, and the result
was a dynamic and impactful backdrop that guests raved about.
“As an integrated event staging provider, every element of the event was carefully thought out, from the set design of tessellated triangles, to the mapped digital backdrop, to the three 16:9 screens and the table styling featuring illuminated glass terrariums filled with copper string lights. The event environment was warm, inviting and had an ultimate wow-factor,” concluded Mr Buchanan.
Staging Connections worked in collaboration with The Star Event
Centre’s technical and audio visual team to deliver the spectacular result for the Australian Hotels Association Awards for Excellence.