I have ten years experience working in events, styling,
decorating,using fabric as a medium.
Currently live in Australia but I am open to work where ever, I have
the means to work in Europe.
Any ideas people ?

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Clarification of Question by woerock-ga on 19 Jul 2003 19:18 PDT

I am looking for event decorating companies in the UK and USA ???

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Clarification of Question by woerock-ga on 27 Jul 2003 16:38 PDT

I would like a list of all the top event decorators and organisers in the us and uk,

Dear Woerock, 

Event planning is a highly desired job, and consequently, a very
competitive field. Many would like to try and work in it, including
many with education in arts, marketing, management, etc. Your
experience might prove beneficial, but you should expect a fierce
competition on each free place.

Firms that specialise just in the facet of event decorating could be
also found:

http://www.poshevent.com/ - Posh Event 

http://www.mediadesigngroup.com/ _ Media Design Group

David Beahm Designs - http://www.dbdny.com/ 

http://users.pipeline.com.au/abuchter/ - Based in Victoria, AU

Many event organisers from the UK, Australia and the US appear in
Google Directory:

http://directory.google.com/Top/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Business_and_Economy/Event_Planning/Management_Companies/
- Event Planning Management Companies in the UK.

http://directory.google.com/Top/Regional/Oceania/Australia/Business_and_Economy/Event_Planning/
- Event planners in Australia (see also separate states)

http://directory.google.com/Top/Regional/North_America/United_States/Business_and_Economy/Event_Planning/
- Event planners in the US (see also separate states). Another US list
could be found at Business.com
http://www.business.com/directory/advertising_and_marketing/event_and_conference_planning/planning_services/

More directly, Anne Ellington Associates is a recruitment agency for
candidates & employers in the events industry. Her listings of jobs
are mostly in the UK, sometimes also Ireland:
http://www.ae-assocs.com/

In addition, this book (US$29.90)
<http://www.fabjob.com/eventplanner1.asp> is supposed to explain the
secrets of the trade and how to become a professional event planner (I
don't endorse it, since I haven't read the book). Another such book,
for US$12.25, is called "How to Break into the Event Planning
Business" <http://www.dreamjobstogo.com/titles/djtg0028.html>.

Advices for people working in event design could be also found at
rec.arts.theatre.stagecraft , as part of the similarities between this
job and setting up a show:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&group=rec.arts.theatre.stagecraft

Search terms: 
"Event set up" jobs 
"Special event planning" decorating 
"Special event planning" decoration
"Event planning" decorating "market" 
"Event planning" decorating "market leaders" 
"Event planning" decorating "top companies" 
"Event planning" decorating 
"Event set up" jobs 
"Event decorating" jobs 
"Event decoration" jobs
"Event planning" jobs
Event production" decoration companies 
"Event decoration"  
"Event decoration companies" [No results on this one]
"Event decoration firms"  [ditto]
 
The most helpful of the list above happened to be to search these
terms in the Google Directory, since the search engine brought lots of
"noise" in the first results.

I hope this answers your question - I provided three lists of top
organisers in these countries. If you need any clarifications on this
answer nevertheless, please contact me before you'll rate the
question.