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Established in 1993, Creator provides innovative design, build and event services to agencies, producers and brands. Creator’s philosophy is whatever can be imagined can be created. We are the Original Idea Makers. Our clients include some of the UK’s best creative agencies, set designers and event producers. We also work with brands that want to create memorable physical experiences for their fans and followers. We have offices in London, the South West and Yorkshire. Our experience and expertise includes:
• Exhibition Stands and Conference Sets • Live Event sets and infrastructure • Roadshow and Festival experiences • Pop Up Shops, Retail and Museum installations • Experiential Environments • Event Management & Staffing • TV & Show Sets
Our workshop:
Based near Biggin Hill Airport, Creator has over 16,000 square feet of workshop space. This is home to our skilled carpenters, painters, scenic artists and project managers. Our equipment and facilities include: • 2 CNC machines
• 2 large format printers
• Spray booth and paint shop
• Indoor and outdoor pre-build facilities • Graphic design • CAD design • Storage
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Creator was founded on the principle of creativity. Everyone at Creator has a passion for the creative industries and a background in design, marketing, manufacture or events. We have a close-knit group at the heart of the business and pride ourselves on quickly becoming an extension of our client’s team. With a wide range of capabilities, our clients can work with us in a specialist area or as a full-service provider of design, build and event services.
Giles Elliot Founder & MD
Niall Gebbie Contracts Director
Giles has over 25 years experience in the design, build and installation of sets, staging and live events. From the first meeting right through to the project end, Giles is a hands-on member of the team, ensuring a thorough and professional service.
Niall has a background in scenic carpentry and, coupled with his CAD training, is able to get under the skin of any job. From the estimate stage through to design, build and delivery, Niall works closely with clients to achieve innovative and creative solutions on time and on budget.
Andy Harrison Client Services
Cath Lyn Jones Business Development Manager
Andy leads Creator’s event management team, planning and delivering a wide range of projects from large outdoor events to intimate brand experiences. Andy has worked with a broad spectrum of clients, including Procter & Gamble, Gillette, Disney, Nokia and the BBC.
Cath drives our understanding of client needs and is a key factor in building long lasting client relationships. Cath is responsible for sourcing new opportunities and keeping existing clients informed of Creator’s growing portfolio of projects and capabilities.
Rob Lansdown Design Manager
Ian Grant Project Manager
Rob oversees all of our design and build projects, making the creative vision a reality. His skills include AutoCAD, Microstation and Inventor 3D. With a thorough understanding of design, materials and construction, Rob ensures that all of our projects answer the client brief perfectly.
Ian works alongside clients to create budgets, schedules and drawings to take projects from concept to reality. Ian provides a seamless link between the client, our design and construction teams and third party contractors.
Hayley Starling Project Assistant
Warren Arthur Workshop Manager
Hayley assists Creator’s Project Managers at all stages of a contract and ensures that our clients receive excellent service. With a Degree in the History of Art and previous roles at Penguin Books and The Royal Ballet, Hayley brings a high level of creativity and organisation to the Creator team.
Warren has been with Creator for 14 years and oversees all work that goes through our workshop and works closely with our Design Manager to achieve our client’s creative vision.
Olly Bellamy Event Production Manager
Dave Harrison Print Manager
Olly brings a huge amount of experience to Creator in the areas of tour & production planning, event management and audiovisual expertise, which he has gained working across several continents. Olly works closely with our clients to deliver event management solutions for a wide variety of projects.
Dave manages our in-house graphics and print department. This provides our clients with a seamless and fully integrated print service.
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Design & visualisation
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Creator can provide CAD design, visualisation and graphic design services for any project.
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Exhibition Stands
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Part of our core business is creating bespoke exhibition stands and conference sets. For over 20 years, Creator has worked with brands such as HTC, Moet, EE, Martini, Nissan, and Sony, as well as leading creative agencies, to deliver stands that exceed expectations and meet timings and budgets. Our in-house designers, CNC operators, paint shop and graphics departments work seamlessly together to provide our clients with an industry leading exhibition stand solution.
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Microgaming at ExCeL SSG
A two-storey exhibition experience covering 1,500m2 at ExCel, London. The stand featured meeting rooms, gaming rooms, three bars, a large LED screen and a suspended LED ceiling.
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Exhibition Stands
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Lyktan Two unique, custom-built exhibition stands promoting Lyktan’s exterior light fittings at trade shows.
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D30 Creator designed and built an exhibition stand for the shock-absorption brand for shows across Europe. The stand included tension fabric printed walls, a central hub with lightbox and fixed demo units, floating shelves to display product, plus meeting room and refreshment facilities. We installed screen display monitors and a virtual reality experiential area.
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Neilson Holidays MBA
An interactive windsurfing stand which provided visitors with a chance to experience a virtual Neilson Holiday. An Oculus DK2 virtual reality headset produced a 360 degree view of a windsurfing environment, complete with vibrating surfboard and wind simulator.
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Shopping Centres
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Creator regularly helps agencies and brands take experiences and retail concepts into shopping centres around the UK. We have worked with brands and agencies such as Marriott, Arc London, RSPB, Intu, Haygarth and Gillette on over 35 events per year. Creator works closely with the client and creative agencies to ensure activation and engagement is maximised in line with the brand’s marketing strategy. Creator has experience in liaising with a large number of local authorities and site owners on touring projects and is able to lead and support client teams in this area.
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Gillette and Venus Experiential Tour Haygarth
Creator helped deliver up to 35 events per year for Gillette, creating experiential stands and environments for creative agency Haygarth. The activations allow the brand to deliver shave experiences and product engagement. Locations included V Festival, Boardmasters Festival, the UK’s major city centres, shopping centres and consumer exhibitions.
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RSPB Big Birdhouse Tour ARC London, Intu and RSPB
Working alongside ARC London and Intu shopping centres in partnership with the RSPB, the Big Birdhouse Tour is a 16 month long exhibition of birdhouses designed by 15 British celebrities including Vic Reeves, Alex Jones and Rebecca Adlington. The tour is visiting Intu shopping centres across the UK to raise money for the RSPB. Our skilled team of carpenters and painters built the wooden birdhouse structures and then used scenic painting, props and graphics to bring the 15 designs to life.
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Bookstart Bear Club’s Dreamland Stand ARC London, Intu and RSPB
Our skilled team created a light yet robust set, complete with freestanding 2D sun backdrop, 2D cloud sides and hand crafted children’s seats as part of the touring event bringing stories, books and rhyme to young children.
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Shopping Centres
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Marriott Hotels at Westfield London Marriott Creator designed, built and installed a cutting edge hotel environment inspired by the public’s suggestions of the ideal hotel room. This included a fitness station, media zone and a tech-free tranquil zone.
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BBC
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Since 2012, Creator has been commissioned by BBC Learning to plan, build and manage touring infrastructure for events across the UK and Northern Ireland. This has included a landmark WW1 commemorative tour of 27 events over a period of five months, attracting an overall audience of 225,000. We also work with BBC Learning to provide fun and free educational events. These include outdoor stages featuring popular children’s presenters and children’s characters such as Rastamouse and Mr Bloom. Creator design and build event structures, props, stage sets and branding, provide the touring event management teams and crew and are the primary liaison with site owners and third party suppliers. We also manage the health and safety of the events alongside BBC safety advisors.
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CBeebies Big Day Out with the Furchester Hotel Working with CBeebies and BBC Learning as part of the ‘Dish Up’ campaign, we helped deliver five free family days out in Weston-super-Mare. Special guests included Phoebe and Furgus from the Furchester Hotel, JB from JLS, CBeebies presenters Rebecca Keatley and Dr Ranj, Rastamouse and Da Easy Crew.
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BBC Make It Digital Tour As part of the BBC’s initiative to inspire a new generation to get creative with coding, Creator provided the event planning, structures, branding, displays, power, infrastructure, touring event management teams and skilled crew to help deliver 13 Make It Digital events across the UK.
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BBC
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BBC World War One at Home Tour Creator planned, built and managed the touring infrastructure for 27 events across the UK and Northern Ireland. The events featured Larry Lamb, Lucy Siegle, Kate Adie and Pete Waterman delivering local history content to 225,000 visitors over 5 months. Coverage included BBC Breakfast, BBC Radio, Regional BBC TV and a huge engagement on social media.
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BBC Stargazing Live
Mr Bloom & Friends Big Day Out Tour 2013
Creator provided the event management and infrastructure for the BBC Stargazing Live event, organised by BBC Learning to coincide with the solar eclipse. The BBC TV show Stargazing Live included coverage from the event with a live lesson also being recorded and broadcast to schools across the UK.
8 locations 123,000 visitors
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CBeebies Pantomime 2013 & 2014 Free outdoor events with 30,000 visitors over two days
Mr Bloom’s Get Set Grow Tour 2012
5 locations 50,000 visitors
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Family Experiences & Attractions
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Working with Unit 10 Eventive, we built and installed the internal sets for the immersive family attractions at The Gruffalo Experience and Santa’s Secret Workshop. Creator also provided event planning services and the on-site event management team for the Gruffalo Experience at Meadowhall and Bluewater shopping centres.
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Santa’s Secret Workshop Unit 10 Eventive
Creator manufactured and installed the internal set for the experience, which included a hidden entrance, a mirror maze, a magical labyrinth and the workshop itself.
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The Gruffalo Experience
Unit 10 Eventive
Families embarked on a fun and interactive journey into the deep dark wood to meet the Gruffalo and other characters from the world famous children’s picture book. Creator helped construct various scenic elements of the set to bring the well-loved book to life.
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City Centre & Outdoor Events
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Over the past 20 years, Creator has designed, built and installed a wide variety of outdoor events, structures, sets and activities. Our team is experienced in working alongside agencies, local authorities, event promoters and Safety Advisory Groups to make any idea a reality.
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Pringles Piñata event Zerotwonine
The Pringles world record attempt for smashing the most piñatas was staged by Tower Bridge. Our skilled carpenters built a 5m high Piñata decorated with Pringle tubes that took centre stage at the event. We were also responsible for the set-up of the 525 individual piñatas hanging from ropes on site ready to be smashed by Pringles fans…and Katie Price!
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Rakuten
Hometown and Kru Live
A 10m high shopping bag was dropped into city centres across the UK to promote the global shopping and internet services company, Rakuten. The bag featured a large LED screen showing Disney movies, with prize giveaways and sample products being handed out to visitors.
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City Centre & Outdoor Events
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Beefeater Gin My London Project Haygarth and Projection Artworks
Creator designed, built and installed an 8m tall gin bottle and backdrop into Covent Garden. Projection mapping, animations and photographs of London brought the installation to life for evening visitors. Creator worked to precise measurements to ensure that the build matched the projection mapping exactly, creating a seamless result with high impact.
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London 2012 & BA Park Live
London 2012 and British Airways
Creator constructed start and finish line gantries for the Triathlon, BMX and Mountain Bike tracks at London 2012. We were also involved in the build and installation of the British Airways’ Park Live project; an enormous double-sided screen on a pontoon floating on the river at the Olympic Park.
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Pop-up Shops
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Creator has designed and installed Pop Up Shops in a variety of locations, from empty retail units to railway station concourses. Our team create authentic environments that represent your brand and deliver effective visitor experiences.
Olay – Regent Street Case study
To celebrate the launch of a new product range, Creator transformed an empty retail space into a New York style loft and beauty spa.
Gillette & Movember Since 2012 Creator has been involved with Gillette’s award winning partnership with Movember to help raise money and change the face of men’s health. We transformed an empty retail space in Covent Garden into a multi-purpose venue. This included an authentic 1940’s barbershop, sports clubhouse and entertainment venue. The clubhouse hosted weekly comedy nights, gigs and gaming sessions plus media events featuring James Haskell and Chris Kamara, reaching a huge finale with a live OB of Colin Murrey’s TalkSPORT show. Creator has also provided mobile barbershops for activation across the UK.
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Ernest Jones & H. Samuel Creator designed and built fully operational Pop-Up shops overnight in some of London’s busiest railway stations and shopping centres. The Pop-Up shops included secure product displays, bespoke product lighting, counters, storage and eye-catching exteriors.
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Fashion & PR Events
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Our team has vast experience in working with Fashion & PR agencies in planning and delivering press events, parties and shows. Creator has helped transform venues and create immersive experiences for a wide range of clients.
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Belstaff My Beautiful City
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Clarks AW15 & AW16 Collection
Creator was tasked with reproducing the interior of the famous ACE café, complete with bar, stage area for bands and scenic decoration. With the set going into an underground car park opposite the Houses of Parliament, Creator’s skilled team had just one night to complete the installation, ready for the launch of the new collection in the morning. (All photos courtesy of My Beautiful City: www.mybeautifulcity.co.uk)
Studio J.A.G
Working alongside Studio J.A.G, we were delighted to be involved in the Press Day launches of the Autumn/Winter collection of Clarks shoes for men, women and children. We built and installed display walls, plinths, bars, graphics and bespoke areas to showcase the Clarks Classic Originals range.
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House of Holland AW15 My Beautiful City
Creator was involved in the launch of House of Holland’s AW15 Womenswear at London Fashion Week. The venue was dressed to reflect the industrial theme of Henry Holland’s “Uptown Urchins” collection and the models walked on moving travellators, which added a truly unique element to the show. (All photos courtesy of My Beautiful City: www.mybeautifulcity.co.uk)
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Monica Vinader Jewellery Highjam Marketing
Creator produced a branded handcart for luxury jewellery makers Monica Vinader for use during key trading periods across the year.
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Polaroid Art Installation Damilola Odusote and Converse
Working closely with artist Damilola Odusote and Converse, Creator built an anamorphic polaroid installation using over 1,400 polaroids. The installation came together to create an image of London from a specific vantage point.
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Bespoke Bars
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We regularly design and build bespoke bars and back bar displays for our clients, utilising innovative lighting and high end finishes.
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24hr Bar Build Challenge Bluedog Productions
Creator worked with Bluedog Productions to help deliver the 24 Hour Bar Build Challenge. Team London triumphed over Paris, New York and Singapore to be crowned World’s Best at the event that was hosted at N&C Showrooms in Shoreditch to round off London Cocktail Week. Each participating city was challenged to create a bar from concept through to cocktails with the support of a different drinks brand; London with Patrón Tequila, Paris with Bombay Sapphire, Singapore with Bacardi rum and New York with Grey Goose vodka. The bars were judged by industry experts and the general public on their bar aesthetic, drink quality and invention as well as how well they captured the spirit of their individual cities.
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Stella Artois World Draught Masters 2015 Momentum Worldwide
Creator was responsible for the installation of the set and staging, bar area and all branding at this exciting event. Now in its 17th year, Stella Artois’ World Draught Masters competition is an annual search for perfect craftsmanship from over 30 countries across five continents.
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Creator’s in-house print team provides expert vehicle wrapping solutions. Our workshop can customise vehicles inside and out. Recent projects include a satellite trailer for the BBC and Imperial War Museums, a Fanta mini and a classic 1980’s Sherpa van for Dr Martens.
Festivals
Vehicles & Sampling
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Whether our clients require a festival structure, vehicle, branding or stages, Creator has experience across a variety of festivals and outdoor events.
Clients requiring sampling solutions can also take advantage of our experience in designing and manufacturing temperature controlled food sampling solutions and various mobile storage units.
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Herbal Essences at Isle of Wight Festival As part of an integrated campaign with Superdrug to promote a new range of products, Creator installed a large safari tent at the Isle of Wight festival, complete with 12 styling stations, a bar and touchscreens. The experience was hugely successful and resulted in 30,000 samples being distributed, fantastic social media engagement and a live OB on Absolute radio.
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Jack Daniel’s Saloon at Leeds Festival Putting together a high calibre team including structural engineers, highly experienced draftsmen and skilled carpenters, the Creator team worked together to design and build a Saloon Bar and Barbeque Room for Jack Daniel’s at Leeds Festival. The saloon bar attracted over 50,000 people in three days- the saloon was the place to be!
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Furniture Manufacture
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Opendesk Creator is a Maker for Opendesk, a global design platform for local making. We construct and install birch ply furniture, cut on our in-house CNC machines and constructed and finished in our workshop in Surrey. www.opendesk.cc/open-making
For more information, please contact us on 01959 542732 / Creator.uk.com @creatoruk
