• Eat with your Ears: A Practical Guide to Designing Experiences With Taste & Sound (Early)

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    Immersive experiences are too often reduced to screens. To create lasting, mind‑shifting states, we have to design beyond vision. However when we combine taste and sound… Vision is overloaded. Sound - one of our fastest, most immediate channels - cuts through the noise. Eating is our most intimate ritual. For millennia, shared meals have anchored […]

  • Eat with your Ears: A Practical Guide to Designing Experiences With Taste & Sound (Late)

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    Immersive experiences are too often reduced to screens. To create lasting, mind‑shifting states, we have to design beyond vision. However when we combine taste and sound… Vision is overloaded. Sound - one of our fastest, most immediate channels - cuts through the noise. Eating is our most intimate ritual. For millennia, shared meals have anchored […]

  • Behind the Mask: The Experience Strategy Behind a €260M Exit (Early)

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    What makes a drinks brand go from “nice bottle on the back bar” to the name everyone is talking about? Events designer, PR consultant and freelance journalist Patrick McAleenan spent 12 years doing exactly that with Don Papa Rum, building and leading the brand’s global events vision, turning its 'Sugarlandia' platform into a living, breathing […]

  • Behind the Mask: The Experience Strategy Behind a €260M Exit (Late)

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    What makes a drinks brand go from “nice bottle on the back bar” to the name everyone is talking about? Events designer, PR consultant and freelance journalist Patrick McAleenan spent 12 years doing exactly that with Don Papa Rum, building and leading the brand’s global events vision, turning its 'Sugarlandia' platform into a living, breathing […]

  • Functional Experiences: The Next Growth Opportunity for the Experience Economy

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    What changes when an experience promises a result? Most experiences are sold around enjoyment, memory, identity or status. But another category is emerging: experiences designed to produce a specific benefit that people can feel, observe or measure. Functional food has already made this idea familiar. Products now promise better energy, sleep, digestion, focus or physical […]

  • After The Launch: How Competitive Socialising Venues Keep Guests Returning

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    A practical Campfire on increasing repeat visits, refreshing the guest experience and protecting revenue after launch excitement fades. The problem. Competitive socialising and immersive venues often open strongly. The harder task is sustaining demand once the novelty wears off. Concepts can be difficult to retrofit, menus can become overcomplicated, and discounting can train guests to […]