As an Exhibit Detailer for Evo Exhibits, this person will work directly with designers and  production to produce a detailed bill of materials for custom/modular exhibits of all sizes. In addition to being organized, proactive and a clear communicator, the following also apply:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Other duties may be assigned

☐  Effectively communicate with design and production team to ensure feasibility of conceptual solutions during the quoting process as well as final build.

☐  Coordinate with Rental Service Coordinator to allocate/secure rental assets in internal management software per project.

☐  Problem-solve complete construction and attachment methods for custom fabricated/extrusion based exhibits.

☐  Provided full bill of materials for each project including, but not limited to, the following:

☐  Plan, Elevation and Isometric Views

☐  Extrusion/Connection details

☐  Custom Fabrication/Material call outs

☐  Graphic Layouts/Sizes

☐  Staging Details/Complete Assembly Instructions (AV/Electrical, etc.)

☐  Crating/Packing layouts

REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

☐  Detail oriented with excellent problem-solving and organization skills

☐  Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines in a fast paced environment

☐  Minimum 2 year experience working in Autodesk Inventor (Other Autodesk Products will be considered)

☐  Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop/Illustrator/In-Design) is a plus by not required

☐  Windows/Microsoft Office Suites

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Type: Full-time/Salary

Compensation: To be determined by experience + benefits

Send all resumes to: michael@evoexhibits.com

Theresa is one of our exhibit designers, and brings such a great positive vibe to our creative department.      Here are 12 fun facts about Theresa…

• I am the youngest and the first person to graduate college in my immediate family.I knew I was going to do something in art and design when I was 13 years old.

• My favorite color is pink, but it would never be my first design color choice.

• I’m attracted naturally to bright vibrant colors but I know neutral tones have their place.

• Yellow Legal notepads make me feel sad, but white notepads make me pretty excited.

• I love painting, I could spend hours painting.

• I spend most of my free time designing logos, posters, flyers and creating wedding invites. I love it!

• I designed all of my high school yearbook 3 weeks before school started that year.

• I can’t believe I actually get paid to do what I love, and if I could I would live in the office.

• Every time I drive past a gas station I think about cool things they could do architecturally.

• I get super excited to think about the clients we have and the impact we’re making.

• My cellphone is filled with pictures of cool ideas, architectural items and colors from random restaurants, buildings, bridges and plants.

Here are some fun facts about Krystal – our Show Service Coordinator here at Evo

1-      I started in the trade show business at 20 years old

2-      When I started, I began by working in the service department building booths

3-      I absolutely LOVE when clients want me to suggest furniture to rent

4-      I moved back to the US in July of 2013 to work full time in the office

5-      My husband is Canadian and also came with to the US in July.

6-      I am OBSESSED with the vast spectrum of “Evo green” shades (Shoes, Phone, Shirts, Eyeshadow)

7-      I FEEL like the winter weather in Canada was a lot better than winter in Chicago

8-      I got my first smart phone in October and trying to use it makes me feel old =[

9-      I design graphics for some of Evo’s clients and actually went to school for advertising and design

10-   I like reading young adult fiction

11-   I have never been to Las Vegas, New York or California (except for one change-over flight)

12-   I think McDonalds is delicious

CES 2014 was the largest in show history, with attendance topping 150,000 (35,000 outside the US) and 3,200 exhibitors.  A record of 2 million net square feet of exhibit space was used in combining all Las Vegas exhibit halls.  One-third of the worlds population has interacted with CES in some way during the week experiencing the future that technology has to offer.

Evo Exhibits worked on an impressive nine exhibit builds during the week for CES, with multiple crews working around the clock on these beautiful display structures.  Evo also constructed a large one day press release event, and multiple exhibitor suites for MakerBot and SanDisk.

The trade show industry often monitors the success of CES, as a regulator for how the show season will go for the rest of the year.  With the results in, our outlook for 2014 will be a very successful year for trade show exhibiting.

As the Executive Account Manager to the Principals at Evo Exhibits, this positions primary role is to enhance executive’s effectiveness by providing information management support; representing the executive to others and maintain key account relationships and future business. This person will interface directly with existing clients as well as the entire Evo Exhibits team to oversee that all client expectations are met and all critical project or account information is managed correctly. In addition to being organized, proactive and a clear communicator, the following also would apply:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Other duties may be assigned

(-) Work with executives to manage client expectations and makes recommendations on products or services as per the request of the customer.

(-) Submits project details from customer requests to Project Management and assists the executive from discovery to delivery of every project.

(-) Represents the executive by attending meetings in the executive’s absence; speaking for the executive and recording meeting notes as required.

(-) Conserves executive’s time by reading, researching, and routing correspondence; drafting emails and documents; collecting and analyzing information; initiating telecommunications.

(-) Maintains executive’s appointment schedule by planning and scheduling meetings, conferences, teleconferences, and arranging travel.

(-) Maintains customer confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.

(-) Meets with executives on a regular basis for project updates, tasks, client relations and any other items that are pertinent to the executive’s involvement.

REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

(-) 3 year experience working in Tradeshow/Event Design

(-) Strong organization and problem-solving skills

(-) Ability to work in a detail-oriented, deadline-focused, and customer-centric environment

(-) Actively learns and applies new methods to meet customer demand

(-) Strong computer skills/Windows/Microsoft Office Suite experience required

ADDITONAL INFORMATION

Type: Full-time/Salary
Compensation: To be determined by experience + benefits

Send all resumes to :michael@evoexhibits.com

Evo Exhibits had a great 2013!  At our Christmas Party, we recognized our outstanding teammates who went above and beyond to make it such a special year for Evo.

Susan Johnson – Sales Excellence

Aly Miller – Support Excellence

Vince Zapata – Service Excellence

Dave Caswell – Creative Excellence

Elizabeth Peterson – Outstanding Employee

Thank you to these award winners and the commitment they have to our client’s success, thank you!

Having worked for both a large international trade show company and smaller local trade show companies during my career, I can say without a doubt that smaller is the way to go.

When you work with a large company it’s easy to get lost and forgotten. In many cases, one coordinator is charged with handling hundreds of customers per show and often they have multiple shows on their plate at any given time. With those numbers, it’s no surprise that it can take a week or more to have questions answered or orders confirmed.

Working with a smaller company allows you to have more direct contact with your coordinator, which results in fewer phone calls and emails.  More personalized service also results in fewer mistakes and fewer missed details.

In the end, working with a smaller company will save you time, money and will you will have suffered less headaches than you would have with a larger company.

Zach Frjelich – show coordinator / evo exhibits

Evo Exhibits announces the addition of Scott Jameson to Evo’s Sales Team.

Since 1987, Scott has managed Bosch’s North American Automotive Aftermarket trade show program of all custom, modular systems and portable displays.  Managing over 125 events per year at Bosch, Scott brings a wealth of trade show and corporate event knowledge to Evo’s clients from an exhibitor’s perspective.

Mr. Jameson graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago studying Design and Communications.  Scott has enjoyed the diversity of the Bosch brands he has brought to the marketplace over the years, working to blend brand messaging and corporate marketing within trade show displays.

According to Kent Jean (Principal of Evo Exhibits) “We are very fortunate to add such an industry expert to our sales team consulting our clients. As one of my first clients and industry mentors, I learned that exhibit managers at that time were starting to stretch their marketing budgets and looking for a new display materials in exhibiting. Using custom modular exhibits was the way of the future to this industry. Scott provided me the inspiration to successfully bring my clients products and services to market. It’s ironic that we are  now blessed to have Scott a part of our team.”

Scott has been involved with many associations including Trade Show Committee Chair/  Board Member of ADS – Association of Diesel Specialists; Board Member / Vendor Liaison / VP of AOCA – Automotive Oil Change Association; AAPEX Show Committee of AASA – Automotive Aftermarket Sales Association; Show Committee Chair AEA – Automotive Electrical Association; Certified as CME

Step 1 – Graphic Design Key and Templates

Evo Exhibits will send you a Graphic Design Key with directions that show where each panel that you will be designing is located. We will also send you Templates as .ai CS5 files and PDFs, which in most cases, are built at 100% full scale, unless they are marked otherwise. For best results, it is a good idea to build your artwork directly on the .ai template files on the Artwork Layer. These template files include all the most up-to-date measurements taken directly from the Exhibit CAD files and include the bleed area needed for successful printing.

Step 2 – Think Large JPEGS and Vector Art

You begin designing your excellent graphics for your Trade Show Exhibit using a combination of high resolution jpegs, psd files, and vector objects. When you design graphics for Trade Show Exhibits, think big! What I mean specifically is, think large high quality jpeg files at 100 dpi. The biggest mistake that designers make in designing graphics, is underestimating just how large these files will be printed when working with the images they choose. Most final graphics will stand as high as walls, sometimes much taller, and that’s a lot of area for pixels to fill. The file sizes that we work with at such a large scale are in MBs, sometimes in the double digits, for jpegs.

How do you know if your jpegs are large enough for print? Sometimes this can be tricky due to the fact that everyone’s settings on their computer are different, but there is a quick first check method and a more for sure method.

Quick first check method:

Place your jpegs on the Evo Exhibits template and look at the lower left corner of the Illustrator program, you will see a percentage box. Set this percentage at 100% and scroll around your artwork. If your artwork is clear, your art quality is good to print, SUCCESS. If you see pixels that are obvious, you most likely need to get a higher quality version of your jpeg…however, before setting out for new images, also try the For Sure Method:

Go to the linked file new in the upper left hand corner and click the name of the image, scroll down to ‘Edit Original’ and open your file in Photoshop. In Photoshop, click to make sure your image is the same size you have it in you Illustrator file and set your percentage box to 100% and scroll around your artwork again. If things look clear, your artwork is okay (one reason this might be happening is that your Illustrator settings or your computer setting may be compressing your images to view them more quickly, thus your quality is appearing to be worse than it actually is for printing). Sadly, if your artwork still looks pixelated or of bad quality, you will need to get higher quality images.

Vector Objects are a very different animal; they can be scaled from the size of a dime to the size of a football stadium and never change in quality. Company Logos are always preferred to be provided in vector or .eps files because the quality and the PMS colors in your logo can be clear and accurate for printing.

Step 3 – Outline Fonts

Your design is finished, your graphics look terrific! What next? Your type. Do a quick spell check in Illustrator and check your fonts. There are millions of typefaces and you might have some fonts and typefaces in your artwork that Evo Exhibits and Print Production does not have, but we want your graphics and fonts to be exactly as you intend them to print. Easy Solution – Always remember to outline your fonts before saving your final a­­rt files.

Step 4 – Saving PDFs

For each .ai file you create, make sure to save a PDF of that file as well, it can be low resolution, if the files are extremely large. We will open both files and compare the two, this helps us catch any incorrect fonts or missing images from the ai file.

Step 5 – Linked Files

You’re almost ready to send your files. One of the last steps is saving all the linked files you used in your artwork in a separate images folder. When dealing with large printing, it is preferred that you place linked files into your art, and do not simply embed the files. There are a few reasons for using linked files and not embedded files; it is easier to check quality and make any last minutes changes when the original art is included and the .ai file size is much smaller when the art file is built with linked files, making all the pre-checking and print production stages faster and more error free.

Step 6 – Compressing/Zipping your art and Uploading

Your art is built on the templates and it is done, the quality of your images look great, your fonts are outlined and your linked files are in a separate images folder, Great! The last thing you will do is collect all your art files and your images folder and compress your final art into one large zip file. Head right over to Evo Exhibits website and follow the link to the Evo Exhibits FTP site, or click this link to go directly there  https://www.hightail.com/u/EvoExhibitsCreativeDepartment. Put in your information; Remember to include you Company Name, your Job Number, any PMS Colors that you used in your files,  and a short description of what you are uploading.

Andrea O’Briant – Graphic Designer for Evo Exhibits

Having worked for both a large international trade show company and smaller trade show companies during my career, I can say without a doubt that smaller is the way to go. When you work with a large company it’s easy to get lost and forgotten. In many cases, one coordinator is charged with handling hundreds of customers per show and often they have multiple shows on their plate at any given time. With those numbers, it’s no surprise that it can take a week or more to have questions answered or orders confirmed.

Working with a smaller full service trade show company allows you to have more direct contact with your coordinator, which results in fewer phone calls and emails.  More personalized service also results in fewer mistakes and fewer missed details. In the end, working with a smaller trade show company will save you time, money and will you will have suffered less headaches than you would have with a larger company.

Zach Frjelich – Show Coordinator