Case Study · Events & Brand Partnerships

Red Bull

Multi-year event partner: design, coordination, web, private experiences, and the systems that made every event easier than the last.

Event Design Graphic Design Event Coordination Web Design Print Design SOPs Private Events
Red Bull event hero

Not a one-off gig. A recurring relationship built on results.

I didn't just work with Red Bull once. I partnered with them across multiple events over multiple years, as a designer, event coordinator, and eventually as the person who had helped build enough institutional knowledge that each new event started from a stronger foundation than the last.

The work ranged from large public events and competitions to intimate private dinners. From digital to print. From promotional graphics to live event logistics to web pages for the Red Bull Media House group. Wide range. Consistent output.

Red Bull live event
The Work: Design

Posters. Media. Graphics built to move tickets.

For events like the Red Bull SoundClash and Dance Your Style, live music competitions and dance events running across the USA and Europe. I designed the promotional materials that drove awareness and attendance. Posters, digital media, event graphics, built to be bold, high-energy, and on-brand.

I also helped coordinate the events themselves, not just design for them. I handled logistics, coordinating people, and making sure the day-of experience ran the way it was supposed to.

Red Bull SoundClash event poster, Detroit Red Bull digital media assets Red Bull digital media assets

Custom artwork and event mapping for Red Bull's heavy metal programming.

The partnership extended beyond dance and music competitions. I produced original artwork and custom illustrated maps for Red Bull's heavy metal event work. Different visual language, same level of craft.

Red Bull heavy metal event artwork Red Bull heavy metal event poster

We designed custom dinner menus that folded into J-cards and fit inside working cassette tapes.

Red Bull Media House hosted a private dinner, an intimate event for a select group, and they wanted the experience to feel like nothing else. We were brought in to help plan it and design the collateral that would make it memorable.

We designed custom dinner menus formatted as J-cards (the inserts that live inside cassette tape cases). Folded precisely to fit. Inserted into real cassette tapes. The tapes worked. That part mattered to us.

It wasn't a gimmick tacked on at the end. It was our idea, and we knew how to execute it: the design, the print specs, the sourcing, the assembly. That's what made it land the way it did.

The Idea

A dinner menu that doubles as a collectible. Folded as a J-card. Slipped inside a working cassette tape. The kind of detail guests talk about afterward, and the kind of thing that only happens when the person you hire thinks beyond the brief.

Cassette tape with custom J-card dinner menu, the finished piece
Cassette case open showing the J-card menu insert The Cassette Dinner menu design unfolded
The Cassette Dinner, table setting with food

Building pages for the Red Bull Media House.

Beyond events, I worked directly with the Red Bull Media House group, the production and media arm of the organization. This included building web pages for their digital presence, helping plan events at that level, and interfacing with a larger, more complex organization than the event-production side of things.

Knowing how to operate in a corporate partner context (communicating clearly, delivering on spec, navigating structure without friction) was part of what made these engagements work.

Red Bull Media House web page design
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The Long Game

By the third event, we had systems.
They didn't have to start from scratch anymore.

One of the less visible parts of the partnership was what happened between events. Every time we completed a project with Red Bull, I documented what worked: vendor contacts, venue details, team structures, logistics that had been figured out the hard way.

By the time we'd collaborated on a few different events, we had developed SOPs and rolling contact lists that Red Bull could draw from going forward. Every future event started with a foundation instead of a blank page.

The Principle

Every engagement should make the next one faster. If you're solving the same problems twice, you're not doing it right. I build the system while I do the work, so the work compounds.

Red Bull event behind the scenes

A multi-year partnership that grew
with every project.

3+
Years as a recurring event partner
5+
Distinct deliverables: design, events, web, print, private experiences
SOPs built that carried forward to every future event

I still do events with them. The relationship didn't end. It evolved. That's what happens when you consistently deliver things people didn't even know they could ask for.

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