Main stage installation, general session ballroom
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For EPIC Achievements, Vail Resorts gathered management level employees from across the company to recognize wins from the past year. Categories ran from guest experience to sustainability to community partnership. Lively Productions built the centerpiece of the event around an interactive achievement wall: rows of circular medallions that guests could physically spin to reveal each award, its category, and the story behind it.
Before anything hit the ballroom, the folded-panel walls went through digital layout, a desktop scale model to check the logo reveal and proportions, and a full-size shop build.
Digital render
Panel layout
Scale model
Scale model, image side
Shop build
Full wall
DetailEach medallion mounts on a rotating pin. From the front, guests see the category. Spinning it reveals the nominee or winner, their photo, and the story behind the achievement.
Mid-turn
Nominee card
Side tower
Nearly every graphic element in this build was made for this event specifically. The category marks, the mountain-range motif, the panel artwork and the two-sided nominee circles were all designed by me and approved by the client.
Both faces
Applied identityEach circle carries a category and its icon on one face. On the other is the nominee’s full write-up, the actual story of what they accomplished. So the same object does two jobs. It’s a rotating panel in a wall built to be read across a ballroom, and it’s a keepsake that has to hold up in the hand.
At the end of the night every nominee took their physical circle home.
Two folded, faceted accent walls greeted guests in the lobby before the ballroom. One was built around EPIC's winter identity and one around summer. Both use the same dimensional panel language as the achievement wall, so the whole footprint reads as one system.
Logo
Biker
Epic Achievements asked for something guests would want to walk up to and touch, not just look at. The spinning medallion system turned a standard recognition wall into something closer to a game. Guests hunted for their name, their team, their category, then pulled friends over to spin the next one.
Building it meant owning the whole pipeline: concept sketches, fabrication-ready CNC files for the mountain-silhouette structure, print-ready vinyl and foam core for every medallion face, then being on site for install to make sure the scale and finish held up under ballroom lighting.
