Pitney Bowes: Thinking Inside the Box at ShopTalk

You may know Pitney Bowes best for its postage meters, but it’s actually a leading global technology company whose main business is supporting the billions of transactions made by its customers with all kinds of shipping, mailing, financial and data solutions. One...

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Art Guild: Tackling the Most Complex Structure in the Universe

“The most advanced exhibit on the human brain anywhere in the world.” That’s how the director – Lew Crampton – of the South Florida Science Center described a brand-new exhibit called Journey Through the Human Brain. This 2,500 square foot exhibit...

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SONY – Getting Closer to the People at CES 2019

Since it first opened its doors in 1967, CES (Consumer Electronics Show) has been the showcase of consumer technology innovation. It's now undeniably the largest and most influential technology event on the planet. It's the place where cool tech debuts –...

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Art Guild Honors 25 Years of Service

Art Guild held its annual all-employee party celebrating 2018 - another great year - and recognizing 36 employees for 25 years or more of service. According to Tom Iacovone, Vice President and head of the Tradeshow and Events Division, "We pride ourselves...

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Panasonic’s Live Event Technology – Demo at InfoComm 2018

Panasonic Systems Solutions of North America specializes in entertainment technologies for the professional AV market. At InfoComm 2018 - the largest show in the US for audiovisual technology - Panasonic wanted a killer demonstration showing how it’s pushing the...

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SONY Booth Takes Best In Show at CEDIA Expo 2018

We’re proud to announce that Sony was just awarded CEDIA Expo’s first-ever overall Best in Show booth award, presented by a panel of judges in recognition of SONY’s creative, engaging and impactful presence at this year’s Expo. CEDIA Expo – held this year...

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New Educational Exhibits Preserve Maine’s “Lobstahs” and More

Art Guild’s latest project includes a variety of educational exhibits for LabVenture, a new educational learning facility in Portland, Maine and part of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI), a marine nonprofit dedicated to the preservation of the...

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iWall Interactive Ice Core Exhibit Helps Visitors Explore 100,000 Years of Climate Change

Art Guild has just completed another iWall interactive project, this one for the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan (AMNH), a museum where we've worked several times before. The iWall, built and installed by Art Guild, is part of a climate...

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Breaking News – Art Guild Opens New, More Capable Vegas Facility

Las Vegas consistently ranks as the country’s top tradeshow destination. And no wonder. It’s a painless trip from almost everywhere. There’s a fantastic array of world class tradeshow venues, incredible restaurants, spectacular hotels, great entertainment...

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iWall Exhibit Chronicles the History of Olympic and Championship Skiing

The Colorado Snowsports Museum & Hall of Fame in Vail, Colorado showcases the rich history and heritage of the Colorado ski and snowboard industry, and its impact on the state’s development. In the Spring of 2018 the museum reopened after undergoing a multi-year, $2.4...

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iWall Interactive Showcases New Exhibit at Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum

The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum is an American military and maritime history museum showcasing a collection of ships, air and space craft. These include the aircraft carrier Intrepid, the nuclear missile submarine USS Growler and the space shuttle...

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Art Guild Presents at Philadelphia’s American Institute of Architects’ Event

The Art Guild Museums + Environments team stands out for many reasons. Chief among them is its extraordinary level of museum expertise – acquired through work on hundreds of projects, and its efforts to build a staff of true museum professionals. Every...

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Shoes for Crews Tradeshow Exhibit: Keeping Customers InStep

Sure, the big custom exhibits get all the glory, but in a lot of programs it's the little ones that do the heavy lifting. So, we like to feature interesting examples of these too. Like this one for Shoes for Crews – a company that makes specialty safety shoes for...

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Art Guild’s Mike Fabian Recognized by Companions in Courage

This is our 3rd blog post about Art Guild’s fabrication and installation work on the Lion’s Den program for the Companions in Courage Foundation. The first two posts recognized milestones in the program, such as our 20th Lion’s Den installation this past Spring at the...

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Spagnola/Art Guild Collaboration Featured in SEGD Magazine

The Stevens Institute of Technology (Stevens) – on the Hudson River across from New York - was the first university in the United States dedicated to mechanical engineering. It has been in the midst of a turnaround that is helping make it one of the most desirable...

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Tradeshow Design Trends: Booths That Aren’t Booths

There are several interesting design trends that you may have noticed on tradeshow floors these days - all created to help exhibitors standout from everything else around them. One is the “anti-tech booth” where there’s not a trace of anything digital to be found....

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Our 20th Lion’s Den for Companions In Courage

We’ve posted before about our work for the Companions in Courage Foundation, founded by National Hockey League Hall of Famer, Pat LaFontaine. We’re posting again because we’ve reached a memorable landmark – our 20th Lion’s Den installation. What’s a Lion’s Den? Kids...

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International Tradeshows: Meeting the Challenge

Around 2000, most exhibit houses came to the same conclusion. If they couldn’t help a customer take their program overseas, the customer would take their program to someone who could. So, the goal became to make the experience of going overseas just the same for a...

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We Get an Award for Service Excellence from The Home Depot. Sweet.

Look at the picture above. That’s one of three different-sized “Quarry Wall” fixtures we’ve been making and shipping to Home Depot stores across the country for the last nine years. This one’s 24 feet long. It’s made up of hundreds of individual parts, and its carries...

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Tradeshow Exhibit Design: Art Guild Helps Hoshino U.S.A. Rock NAMM

Hoshino (U.S.A.) Inc. is the U.S. distributor of the popular Ibanez and Tama brands of musical instruments, and a subsidiary of the Hoshino Gakki Group based in Japan. Tama is known for drum kits and related components. The Ibanez brand offers a range of guitar models...

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Tradeshow Exhibit Design: Shaking It Up At CCA’s Winter Convention

CCA Global Partners is dedicated to helping local businesses and entrepreneurs succeed in marketplaces that face widespread consolidation. One of these marketplaces is flooring. Here CCA has used its cooperative business model to create the country’s two largest...

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Good Budget. Bad Budget. Cutting Tradeshow Costs Strategically.

You want to cut your tradeshow program’s costs. Who doesn’t? Reducing tradeshow costs is smart business (plus it’s always good to show upper management you’ve got their back). But in our experience, sometimes the wrong things get cut from the budget. A couple of...

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Art Guild Helps OSA Celebrate Centennial with Spectacular Interactive Exhibit

The Optical Society, or OSA, describes itself as the leading professional association in the world of optics and photonics. For the non-scientists among us, that means they promote the science of light, something OSA advances through professional publications,...

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Art Guild Helps Inspire Brand New Book: Pheel the Love

“I got a call one day from Tom Iacovone. Tom is head of the Trade Show and Events division of Art Guild, a high-end trade show and design company.” So opens the brand new book co-written by Tom Burgoyne, the man inside of the Philly Phanatic suit, and Evan Marcus,...

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Art Guild: What 2017 May Have In Store For Exhibits, Retail and More

Some notable historical anniversaries will take place in 2017 – like the centennial of the Russian October Revolution. Slightly less notable anniversaries include the 200th anniversary of the bicycle, created by Germany’s Karl Drais who died penniless. The 50th...

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Exhibit Fabrication: National Museum of Industrial History

No one can deny the impact of America’s industrial achievements on both the U.S. and the rest of the world. So, Art Guild is pleased to have played the role of exhibit fabricator for a museum celebrating America’s rich industrial heritage. The National Museum of...

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Art Guild: Pioneering The Home Depot Store of the Future

One of the things we firmly believe at Art Guild is that the breadth of experience we gain working on many different types of projects – tradeshows, events, lobbies, museums and retail displays – helps us bring more innovative and effective solutions to all our...

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The Patrick Risha CTE Awareness Foundation Recognized by NDRI

By now you have probably heard of CTE or Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a progressive, degenerative disease that destroys the brain. Most people associate it with military veterans, pro-football players and repeated traumatic, concussive blows to the head. But CTE...

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Art Guild: Mobile Event Marketing’s New Value Equation

Tradeshows have always been about getting in front of your audiences where they are, but sometimes access to them just 3 days a year isn’t enough. And then, of course, there are all the audience members who don’t come to your shows at all. Enter mobile event marketing...

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Tradeshow Budgets – Making Every Dollar Count

In the movie Titanic, when Jack is having dinner with the rich folks, a toast is made to “making it count.” We understand that sentiment. In fact, its one of our credos. Every customer, no matter what their budget, gives us their business because they expect us to...

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Using Tradeshow Twitter Hashtags More Effectively

After hashtags first appeared in 2007, it didn’t take long for hashtags related to specific tradeshows and events to come into widespread use (e.g., #exhibitorlive) particularly on Twitter. These hashtags allow all kinds of random show-related chatter to be shared...

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AM Resorts: Overseas Tradeshow Exhibit Fabrication

AMResorts is the fastest growing luxury leisure company in North America, representing a collection of 44 award-winning luxury resorts throughout Mexico, Jamaica, Curacao, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Panama. AMResorts provides sales, marketing and brand...

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Building Value Into 20 x 20 Tradeshow Exhibits

Big, dramatic custom booths get the attention. But for many customer programs, the heavy lifting is done by the smaller exhibits. They’re the ones that go to most of the shows. They're all that many important audiences ever see. This puts a real premium on their...

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Sharing Museum Fabrication Expertise at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts

Taking the drama out of fabricating technologically challenging museum exhibits. A relentless focus on delivering the intended visitor experience. These are two of the core commitments Art Guild's Museums + Environments team makes to its customers. Keeping these...

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Exhibit Fabrication for the Louis Armstrong House Museum

"What he does is real, and true, and honest, and simple, and even noble. Every time this man puts his trumpet to his lips, even if only to practice three notes, he does it with his whole soul." That’s what Leonard Bernstein said about Louis Armstrong, and that’s why...

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Tips for Running a Better Tradeshow Program RFP

    There are all kinds of articles on how to run a better exhibit house RFP process. So we thought we'd offer these five not so common tips for making the process easier and more effective. A lot of RFPs get answered by people hired to answer RFPs. This doesn’t mean...

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Mannington Celebrates its 100th Anniversary at Surfaces 2016

On December 28, 2015 Mannington Mills celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding by John Boston Campbell at a gala event at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. We want to offer our congratulations to Mannington as it enters into its fifth...

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Win the Trade Show Sales Conversation with Personality Profiling

You're a sales person on the show floor and a prospect approaches you. Do you launch into a canned spiel? Or do you take a moment to first assess his or her needs, motivations and shopping behavior? There are profiling tools to help you do just this. A very practical...

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IVC: Simplifying the Marketing Supply Chain

In this hyper-competitive world the accuracy and consistency of an audiences’ experience with a brand has never been more critical. Trying to deliver this using multiple vendors can come at a high, often unrecognized cost; loss of control and unnecessary time and...

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Tradeshow Exhibit Security: Protecting Remington’s History

This post is about a traveling exhibit we designed and built to showcase the history of Remington as part of its 200th anniversary celebration. Founded by Eliphalet Remington in 1816, Remington’s is America’s oldest gun maker. Its history and its products, serving...

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The Steve Gleason Story Hits the Big Screen

You may remember Steve Gleason's name. He’s the former New Orleans Saints player who in 2011 revealed he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Since then, Steve has bravely used his illness to propel ALS to center stage at every...

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American Bible Society: Faith, Hope and a Lot of Graphics

The American Bible Society's mission is simple. To ensure everyone in the world has access to God's Word, and to encourage more of them to engage with it. Their work includes distributing Bibles, and an effort to translate the Bible into every language. To support...

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Structuring Your Tradeshow Sales Conversation: The Three Insight Paths

Do you want to improve the power of your communications on the trade show floor? This post is about how to build some of the basic principals of a good TED Talk into your sales communications – everything from your graphics to the conversations you have on the show...

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2016: The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be

So said Yogi Berra and he's right as always. What’s in store for 2016? A lot of the same woes as 2015, but it promises some good, even extraordinary things too, plus the potential for a lot of entertainment. Here’s 12 things to watch for this year... SuperBowl 50....

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Marketing In Disguise – Literally

More and more, audiences are saying no to traditional marketing messages.  As Craig Davis, a marketing pundit put it, "We need to stop interrupting what people are interested in and be what people are interested in." Well, how do you do that when you have a product...

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Art Guild Creates “Fantasy Tractors” for Boise’s JUMP Community Center

What do McDonald’s French fries and antique farm tractors have in common? The answer is J.R. Simplot, Idaho's "spud king." His 1967 handshake deal with McDonald's founder Ray Kroc made his Simplot Company the fast food chain's number one supplier of frozen potato...

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Stevens Institute of Technology Admissions Center Reimagined

Working once again with designer Spagnola & Associates, Art Guild has helped turn the stately 19th century admissions building at Stevens Institute of Technology into a modern, 21st century experience for prospective students.  The redesign makes the center more...

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MasterCard and Art Guild: Mobile Exhibit Hits the Road

MasterCard is transitioning from a payments company to a technology company. As they describe it, “MasterCard is thinking differently, designing products differently and innovating faster…to make sure every MasterCard account is as digital as the consumers using them...

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Creating A More Effective Retail Display Design Brief

  We get a lot of assignments for designing retail displays for “considered purchase” products – products where the decision process involves considerable investigation and deliberation. Think high-end carpeting, windows or custom leather for a car. This post offers...

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Axalta Coating Systems at SEMA: One Amazing Car Trade Show

If you love cars, you’re at this show. That is if you can even get in. The SEMA Show in Las Vegas is billed as the world’s premiere automotive specialty products event. It showcases the world’s hottest new automotive products and thousands of the most extreme and...

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Audience Empathy: Not About You. It’s Them.

If you stopped a visitor on the way out of your booth and asked her to rank the experience she just had in your booth against others at the show, what do you think she’d say? The laws of probability dictate that most booths will get ranked in the middle of the...

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