Marketing leaders tasked with delivering high-stakes events face a bad tradeoff: Pull the creative team off campaign and pipeline work to design the conference, or hire a big agency and pay a premium for their B-team.
I spent 15 years as a Creative Director building events inside that problem, for Microsoft programs, for Avalara, for Nintex. Flagship conferences, sales kickoffs, global roadshows, trade show booths that had to earn their floor space. The work in these case studies is work I led, concepted, and directed.
Frame & Gather makes that senior capability directly available. No pushy sales layer. No handoff to a junior team after the pitch. The person whose work you saw is the person doing yours.
And I don’t do it alone. The same core team has moved with me from company to company, event after event. We’ve worked together long enough that there’s no ramp-up and no guessing at how each of us operates. A group that already runs as one unit moves faster and holds a higher bar than a team assembled for a single project, and it delivers past what our size should be able to.
A Creative Director with 15 years building complete design systems for corporate events. He led the work behind the projects in this portfolio: Microsoft’s Learn program at Ignite (via Catalysis), Avalara, Nintex, and Icertis. The events run the full range of scope, from 10×10 trade show booths to full hotel buyouts. On every engagement, the strategy, concept, and creative direction come from him and his team of experts.
Strategy, concept, and creative direction come from the founder. That doesn’t change with project size.
Motion designers, production designers, and presentation specialists are brought in as the scope requires — people the studio has worked with across the events in this portfolio.
Fabrication, sourcing, and event logistics run through a long-standing production partner. Frame & Gather handles design and strategy; the partnership handles the physical build-out. One system, clearly divided.
We have art direction, copywriting, and project management onboard to create every design touchpoint, plus a stable of trusted partners for A/V and logistics. We’re happy to work with our people or yours.
We work with companies who want a real design partner — not a vendor who shows up with a template and a quote.