Interlude Society conceives, designs, and builds immersive experiences where story, hospitality, and technology meet, for brands, teams, and hosts who want their world to outlive the evening.
In music, an interlude is the bridge that carries you from one idea to the next.
Interlude Society lives in that bridge, where story meets technology and worlds that don't usually share a room come together as something unexpected. Every space begins with a story and a reason to exist, then gets built so people can walk inside it.
Past worlds, built and hosted, alongside concepts in development that bring technology into the room.
A night back in 2014, channeling the best of the era's pop culture and swag, in costume.
A study in one color: hands-on matcha making, a Smiski pageant, a monochrome costume contest, and a mint pani-puri fountain.
A Y2K-style Mad Libs name-tag generator, vibe-coded for the occasion, broke the ice between strangers before the first trailhead.
A Capitol-meets-arena evening where guests arrived as tributes and the rules of the Games shaped the night.
Set and décor design for a whodunit where every guest held a secret.
An old-world making party where the activity was the centerpiece and the bread was the reward.
One album, explored in depth: its history, its cultural impact, and the artist's story, closing on vinyl with an art reflection. Featuring Madonna's Like a Prayer and Sade's Promise.
A cyberspace pop-up bar driven by LLM interactions, doubling as a venue where tech companies demo their products inside one coherent world.
An après-ski built as a nostalgic, snowbound online hangout come to life: ice-block igloo walls under falling snow, a light-up disco floor with a DJ, red-booth pizza-parlor comfort, and RFID heat maps tracking where the penguins flock.
The world, the narrative, and the feeling defined before a single chair is moved.
Turning the concept into a physical space people can walk into, touch, and remember.
Technology used as a creative material: responsive, playful, and invisible until it matters.
For teams with a producer in place who want a sharper concept or a second set of eyes.
Flexible engagements. Concept only, creative direction alongside your production team, or end-to-end design and execution. Scoped per project.
Discuss scopeI'm Amishi, founder and creative director of Interlude Society. By day I'm an aerospace guidance, navigation, and controls engineer. The rest of the time, I design the kind of evenings people are still talking about months later.
Those two lives turn out to be the same discipline: systems that respond to people. A spacecraft reads its sensors and adjusts; a great room reads its guests and does the same.
I learned that in college, running campus events and orientation programs for three years. Today, I design themed gatherings across San Francisco, and every one still starts with the same question: what does this room need to feel?
My work draws on a lifelong throughline of storytelling across dance, theatre, painting, and costuming, a childhood spent across cultures, and the conviction that intentionally bringing people together is a craft worth taking seriously.
Tell me about the space, the people, and the feeling you want from your experience.