Hotopp Associates' television designs include: NY Times/Discovery Channel’s Political Dish, the Paralympics Opening Ceremonies Telecast, the Summer and Winter X-Games (Emmy nominations for Production Design and Art Direction), ESPNEWS, MSG Network's Sports Desk, The Oprah Winfrey Show, New York One News and CNBC's Wall Street Journal Bureaus. Also for ESPN, HAL has designed ESPN Classic (formerly Classic Sports Network), ESPN Sports Center, NFL Prime Monday, and ESPN's 1998 Presidential Town Meeting. For Fox Television, Hotopp Associates’ work can be seen on Foxfiles, Fox News Sunday and Fox News Channel studios in New York, Boston and Washington, DC. Other memorable television designs include CBS' 1998 Winter Olympics coverage in Nagano (winner of two Emmys for Production Design and Art Direction), The Queen Latifah Show, CBS Cable's Eye On People with David Frost, and Sports Illustrated's 40 For the Ages (winner of an Emmy for Production Design). Past designs for CBS include the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer (winner of two Emmys for Production Design and Art Direction), the Winter Olympics in Albertville, the Presidential Inaugural Coverage, the Final Four, Eye On Sports, and Sports Control Center.
Hotopp Associates continues to be an industry leader in the field of corporate presentations, partnering C2 creative for multiple projects for clients such as Mercedes Benz, EBAY, Bank of America, and Comcast. They have worked with Xperience on multiple Ford marketing events. Projects also include CBS’ UpFront, UPN’s Up Front, dealer announcement shows for GM, BMW, Mini Cooper, Ford, Mercedes-Benz North America, and Toyota; Automobile Press Announcement Events for Daimler Chrysler - Frankfurt Auto Show, product launches for Coca-Cola, Gillette, Johnson & Johnson, Merck; and meetings, teleconferences, and forums for Sprint, EMC, IBM, Intel, AT&T, SAP, Cendant, MCI, Mattel, McDonald's, Time Warner/Turner, and The Wall Street Journal. Corporate “presentations” have also included the exhibits and environments for IPO launches on the NYSE including: Daimler Chrysler, Viacom, John Hancock, UPS, Met Life, ATT’s AWE and others.
Concert events include Mariah Carey's Butterfly tour, Simon and Garfunkel: Concert Event of a Lifetime at the Paramount Theater, A Tribute to Marion Anderson at Aaron Davis Hall, and PBS's Liza Minnelli - Live From Radio City Music Hall, which garnered a 1993 Emmy nomination.
The team at Hotopp Associates Limited has designed scenic environments for special events such as the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular, The Shoji Tabuchi Show in Branson, MO. and Pokemon Live! Tour. Other theatrical events include Walt Disney World's 25th Anniversary Show and the opening of the Animal Kingdom, NY Life's 150th Anniversary Celebration simultaneously at Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall , Pepsi-Cola 's 100th Anniversary, the 1988 Superbowl Halftime Show, the ESPY Awards, the 1990 Goodwill Games and US Olympic Festival Opening Ceremonies.
Hotopp Associates designs the environments, interactive ice carvings, and sculptures for Gaylord Entertainment’s annual “ICE” at the Gaylord Entertainment’s Opryland Resort in Nashville, Palms Resort in Orlando, and Texan Resort in Dallas . Other themed environments include “Diana”, a touring exhibit featuring memorabilia and dresses from Princess Diana’s life, and restaurant and concert venue concept designs for Reebok International's Super Show Booths, Mariah Carey's Butterfly album launch at Chelsea Studios in New York, and The Baseball Hall of Fame's Grandstand Theater in Cooperstown, NY. Hotopp Associates’ approach to integrated environmental and exhibit design is showcased at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA.
In 2005 Hotopp expanded to the West Coast, opening the office of Hotopp West in Seattle, Washington.
