Each Big Apple Award
category will honor individuals or companies that have achieved
excellence. In order to distinguish your entry from others, you might
choose to highlight:
• How you overcame significant and or unique challenges.
• How the event/product was unique, distinctive and professionally executed.
• How your event or product provided value to your client.
There are 12 categories for the 2013 Big Apple Awards.
1. Best Corporate or Association Event (budget over $150,000)
Did your (Corporate or
Association) event rock from top to bottom, from the pre-event
engagement to post-event follow up and everything in between? If the
answer is a resounding ‘YES!’, tell us how you made it happen.
2. Best Corporate or Association Event (budget under $150,000)
It’s one thing to create a
rockin’ event, but it’s quite another to do it on a budget. Let us know
if you think you did the best with less.
3. Best Room Design / Event Décor / Set Design (budget over $50,000)
Sure, beauty is in the eye of
the beholder. But it’s also in the eye of the event designer. Show us
how your vision - and visuals - helped take an event to the next level.
4. Best Room Design / Event Décor / Set Design (budget under $50,000)
Sure, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But it’s also in the eye of the event designer. Show us how your vision - and visuals - helped take an event to the next level.
5. Best Technical Support
Tenting, audio-visual, staging,
etc. You guys may be behind the scenes but without your help there
wouldn’t be a scene in the first place. If your technical achievements
were key to an event’s success let us hear about it.
6. Best Non-Profit Event
It’s no secret that events are
the lifeline of non-profits. So if your organization (or your client’s)
is alive and well thanks to a first-class event, we want details.
7. Best use of Graphic Design
Your art may be print or digital
(or both), but if your canvas includes invitations, presentations and
signage of all kind this is the category for you.
8. Best Social Event or Wedding
Everyone loves a good party, and
you know how to throw one. Birthdays, anniversaries, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs
and weddings, let us know if there was one that took the cake.
9. Best Tabletop Design
Were your centerpieces the
center of attention? Did your tabletops top the lists of fun, fresh and
unique? If you designed a table that stood above the rest, let us know.
10. Best Photography or Videography
Anyone who says a picture is
worth a thousand words has never seen your photography or videography.
If your work has helped capture an event at its best we want to see your
work.
11. Best New Product
Have you created a new product
that event professionals need to know about, or already can’t live
without? A fun rental item? Cool new software? Cutting edge technology? A
combination of all three or maybe something else entirely? This is a
category for event professional by trade and entrepreneurs at heart.
12. Best Sustainable Event
New this year: the ‘Green Apple Award’. Submissions will be judged on innovation and creativity in event design in planning a green event, with special attention focused on overall best practices incorporated to reduce events’ environmental impact.
Note: Sustainability Efforts will be evaluated in the following areas:
Innovation:
- Planning
- Policy
- Stakeholder Engagement
Performance Metrics:
- Air/Water Quality
- Water Conservation
- Waste Diversion
- Procurement