Product Launch Event
Your product launch is critical to the success of your business and the building of your brand. Our event planners in Connecticut will help you think about whether or not you want to tie your launch to a related event like a dinner, meeting, or another industry function. If your company is a startup, a launch event has a lot riding on its success. The bottom line is you want to make your product launch enjoyable, memorable, and buzz-worthy. Our experienced event planner in Manhattan takes the time to understand your goals, whether you want to create awareness, engagement, or sales.
Big Wave Events provides the event design and production value you need to make your product launch a success. We use state-of-the-art equipment for all of the technical and visual aspects of your product launch. An onsite manager from our team for event production in NYC monitors your event to make sure everything runs smoothly and accomplishes the results you seek and expect.
Events
USA Today Network
Event Site: USA Today Headquarters, NYC
Event: A Historical Look at 30 Years of Ad Meter
Producer: Brian Winthrop
Audio Engineer: Rhys Kiernan
Video: Eddie Goddin
Lighting: Tristan Kane
Gilmore Girls Festival
Location: Tent at Town Hall in Washington Depot, CT
Producer: Brian Winthrop
Lighting: Jeffrey Winthrop
Run of Show: Joseph Burns
Cheddar Product Launch, NYC
Site: Flat Iron Square, NYC
Producer: Brian Winthrop
Audio Engineer: Carlos Dias
CEMA
Event: 2015 CEMA Convention, Newport Marriott
Event Planner: David Chu, CEMA
Event Production: Brian Winthrop, Big Wave Event Productions, LLC
Grand Opening of new Sustainable Electric Plant
Event Producer: Brian Winthrop, CMP, CSEP
Lighting Designer: Tom Russell
AV: Joe Burns
Decor: Mariella Winthrop
Admissions Day, Sacred Heart University
Site: Pitt Center
Audience Size: 3,000
Event Planner: Robert Gilmore, Director of Campus Experience and Kenneth Higgins, Director of Admissions
Event Producer: Brian Winthrop, CMP, CSEP, Big Wave Event Productions, LLC
Audio Engineer: Carlos Dias, Big Wave Event Productions, LLC
Video Engineer: Tom Russell, Big Wave Event Productions, LLC
LD: Brandon Liquori, Big Wave Event Productions, LLC
Flublok
Client: Protein Sciences, Meriden, CT
Product: Flublok
Designer: Brian and Mariella Winthrop, Big Wave Event Productions, LLC
Event Coordinator: Rachael Felberbaum, Manager, Scientific Communications
Sales Meeting
Firm: Henkel Corporation
Site: Henkel Corporate Headquarters, Bridgewater, NJ
Producer: Brian Winthrop, Big Wave Event Productions
Siemens
Producer: Brian Winthrop, CSEP, CMP
Audio Engineer: Carlos Dias
LD: Joseph Burns
Decor: Mariella Winthrop
Splashlight Studios
Westfield Mall Trumbull
Opening of the new $30 million Food Court
Event Design and Production: Big Wave Event Productions
Event Planner: Amy Johnstone, Director of Marketing, Westfield Mall Trumbull
Flagship Store Opening in Soho, NYC for Parasuco Jeans
Marketing Director: Adrienne McGrath, Parasuco Jeans
Designer: Grayson Handy, Prudence Design
Event Producer: Brian Winthrop, CMP, CSEP, Big Wave Event Productions, LLC
Lighting Designer: Peter Wylie, Big Wave Event Productions, LLC
Fabric Designer: Mariella Winthrop, Big Wave Event Productions, LLC
Audio Engineer: Jay Morascini, Big Wave Event Productions, LLC
Party for the Weather Channel with Special Guest Performer Grammy Winner Michelle Branch
Guests entered the event through a lobby filled with fog, potted palms and people in white raincoats as if they were on some Amazonian reserve. It was a sampling of effects that partygoers would experience once they took the elevator up to the main space, where Corporate Events Manhattan created four different environments with food and decor that reflected the seasons, and Big Wave International projected video images of outdoor activities specific to each season.
In the autumn section, a quaint wood station provided fruits and cheeses surrounded by stacks of hay and dried autumn leaves. Dried branches with berries decorated the walls, and Big Wave lit the area in warm red and orange gels. For the winter part of the space, small white tables and stools sat around frosted tree branches decorated with blue Christmas lights. There was a small seared salmon station made of actual ice blocks carved to look like winter garden trellises, and bartenders poured martinis down an ice slide.
Outside on the patio deck, summer was celebrated underneath a clear enclosed tent with a sprawling kite suspended above guests’ heads. Fold-out patio chairs and wood tables were spread out next to tin buckets with striped throw pillows inside. Heat lamps placed around the deck helped to heat the space to the right temperature for guests to enjoy the sangria bar.
For the spring season, Big Wave lit the main performance area with soft green lighting. The green tables had live flowers by Botanica, scented candles burning and wooden folding chairs. Guests could sip apple martinis near a babbling brook station set up to the side of the stage with a small stream flowing around pieces of seasoned fried chicken and sesame noodles in peanut sauce.
After an hour of mingling and interacting in the season-specific spaces, Weather Channel executives gathered everyone to the stage for a speech about daily life and, of course, the weather, before singer Michelle Branch sang a few songs from her new album. To drive home the idea that the station is really about what life will be like today˜not just cold fronts˜guests got their own MP3 players with the Weather Channel logo to take their own music with them for various seasonal activities.
Paul OhanPhotos courtesy of Biz Bash and Brian Winthrop
Product Launch Nissan
Site: I-Beam, Manhattan, NY
Event Production Company: Big Wave International, Ltd. (audio, video and lighting)
All photos courtesy of Brian Winthrop, CMP, CSEP
