SELECTED EVENTS & EXPERIENCES

2017 — 2025

I DESIGN EXPERIENCES PEOPLE ACTUALLY REMEMBER.

FROM A BLANK PAGE TO OPENING NIGHT.

FROM A BLANK PAGE TO OPENING NIGHT.

Over the years, I’ve somehow ended up doing almost every kind of job around an event. I’ve designed them, art directed them, helped shape the experience, coordinated teams, brainstormed weird ideas and, a few times, ran the whole thing from start to finish.

This is a collection of some of that work.

Dubai, UAE · 2025

AIR PRESS BRIEFING & LAUNCH EVENT

AIR PRESS BRIEFING & LAUNCH EVENT

Event Director / Coordinator / Art Director / Experience Designer

This one was pretty much mine from 0 to 100.

I worked on the event from the first ideas and planning all the way to the visual direction, experience, coordination and what people eventually walked into on the day.

One of those projects where my job title stopped meaning much because I was involved in almost everything.

EVOLUTION LIVE EVENTS

EVOLUTION LIVE EVENTS

EVOLUTION LIVE EVENTS

Dubai, UAE · 2023

MY TIME AT
EVOLUTION LIVE EVENTS

While working with Evolution in the UAE, I got involved in very different kinds of live projects.

My role changed depending on what each event needed. Sometimes I was designing, sometimes developing the idea, and sometimes thinking about how people would actually experience the space.

Later, the team started focusing more on building our social media presence and content, so my role gradually shifted in that direction and became much more focused on the brand and digital side.

BEFORE DUBAI, THERE WERE A LOT OF EVENTS.

BEFORE DUBAI, THERE WERE A LOT OF EVENTS.

BEFORE DUBAI, THERE WERE A LOT OF EVENTS.

Years of directing, designing and building live experiences in Iran shaped how I think about people, spaces and moments today.

TEHRAN, IRAN / 2022

RTC 22 EVENT

EVENT DIRECTOR / ART DIRECTOR / FULL EXPERIENCE DIRECTION

RTC was one of the projects where I got to bring a lot of my different skills together.

I worked on the event as both Director and Art Director, thinking about the whole experience rather than one isolated piece of it.

The identity, stage, content, audience experience, visual moments and how everything came together on the actual day were all parts of the same project for me.

We hosted around 3,000 guests, with a 3-hour main event followed by a 2-hour after party, plus live streaming on YouTube and local platforms.

We hosted around 3,000 guests, with a 3-hour main event followed by a 2-hour after party, plus live streaming on YouTube and local platforms.

I also designed a series of interactive experiences for the lobby and outdoor areas, but sadly I don’t have the original videos anymore to show them here.

DMN EVENTS
HIGHLIGHTS
2017 — 2020

DMN EVENTS
HIGHLIGHTS
2017 — 2020

TEHRAN, IRAN / 2017

A FEW YEARS OF
DOING A LOT OF EVENTS.

I worked freelance with DMN Events on launches and brand events for companies including Huawei and Samsung.

This was the period where I did a little bit of everything.

Direction, coordination, interactive experiences, design, running around venues and solving whatever decided to go wrong five minutes before people arrived.

TEST LAUNCH

DIRECTOR / COORDINATOR / INTERACTIVE DESIGNER

HUAWEI EVENT

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR / COORDINATOR / INTERACTIVE DESIGNER

GALAXY S9 LAUNCH

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR / DESIGNER

DMN EVENTS
HIGHLIGHTS
2017 — 2020

A FEW YEARS OF
DOING A LOT OF EVENTS.

I worked freelance with DMN Events on launches and brand events for companies including Huawei and Samsung.

This was the period where I did a little bit of everything.

Direction, coordination, interactive experiences, design, running around venues and solving whatever decided to go wrong five minutes before people arrived.

TEST LAUNCH

DIRECTOR / COORDINATOR / INTERACTIVE DESIGNER

HUAWEI EVENT

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR / COORDINATOR / INTERACTIVE DESIGNER

GALAXY S9 LAUNCH

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR / DESIGNER

TEHRAN, IRAN / 2017

AFRAHOME

AFRAHOME

AFRAHOME

Art Direction / Brand Design / Exhibition Design

This one started with the brand and eventually became a physical space.

I worked on Afrahome’s visual identity, art direction and exhibition design, taking the same visual language from graphics into something people could actually walk into.

SO WHAT DID I
ACTUALLY DO IN EVENTS?

Depends on the event. :) Across these projects, I’ve worked on:

EVENT DIRECTION

EVENT DIRECTION

EXPERIENCE DESIGN

EXPERIENCE DESIGN

ART DIRECTION

ART DIRECTION

CREATIVE DIRECTION

CREATIVE DIRECTION

INTERACTIVE DESIGN

INTERACTIVE DESIGN

MOTION DESIGN

MOTION DESIGN

BRAND EXPERIENCE

BRAND EXPERIENCE

COORDINATION

COORDINATION

SPATIAL EXPERIENCE

SPATIAL EXPERIENCE

BRAINSTORMING

BRAINSTORMING

I’m primarily a designer and creative director. Events have just been one of the places where I’ve had the chance to use almost all of those skills at once.

THAT’S SOME OF
MY EVENT WORK.

THAT’S SOME OF
MY EVENT WORK.

THAT’S SOME OF
MY EVENT WORK.

There’s more scattered across old hard drives, forgotten folders and probably a few phones I don’t own anymore.

But these projects give a pretty good idea of the kind of work I’ve done and the roles I’ve played along the way.

There’s more scattered across old hard drives, forgotten folders and probably a few phones I don’t own anymore.

But these projects give a pretty good idea of the kind of work I’ve done and the roles I’ve played along the way.

ALIREZA JELODAR

ALIREZA JELODAR

ALIREZA JELODAR