Arches, Drops & Races
4.30am – 20 Arches Complete. This years EID celebration required 20 balloon arches to decorate Small Heath Park in Birmingham. I worked on this event in 2014 but this years task required more planning because of the quantity of balloons and last minute access. With Eid nobody knows the exact event date until the very […]
For the 2016 Colour Runs something different was required and I thought these crazy 12ft balloon columns built with 16″ White would match the fun factor theme of each event. These are built with the flexible aeropole system and we installed 6 at each event. The heavy 28.5lbs base plates help in windy conditions but […]
Is there a helium shortage as a huge pocket of helium is found in Tanzania: Increased prices usually mean lower supply, but that’s not true for this gas. “There is actually so much helium that’s flooding the market that it’s not in short supply at all,” Burton says. And as for the future, “I’ve seen a […]
Roundhouse 10th Birthday Celebrations image © John Williams Before installing the Google drop last December I worked closely with The Roundhouse in Camden to match their strict safety standards. They must have been please as they called me back to help celebrate their 10th Birthday celebrations. No need for a site visit as I already knew […]
Clipper ran a one day promotion to launch their contactless card readers. Clipper is a taxi service that runs up and down the Thames, transporting busy commuters and tourists with spectacular views of the London skyline. I was asked to fill their 6 waiting rooms (Canary Wharf, Embankment, London Eye, North Greenwich, London Bridge & Blackfriars) […]
This sounds like a challenge, build 43 arches across the UK in 1 day. It seemed daunting when faced with a spreadsheet listing addresses and postcodes. Looking at a list it’s difficult to digest how close each location is, so I posted them onto a Google map which made the whole thing visually easier to see. […]
For a 6 week promotion in 2 HMV stores Disney required 2 arches to be placed over their “Buy One Get One Free” retail displays. As the duration of 6 weeks was a long time for latex balloons we replaced them at 2 week intervals. The 2 stores were based in Milton Keynes & Reading […]
Here’s our second shopping mall drop for Liberty Shopping Centre in Romford. This one was to celebrate Valentines day and 200 of the 1000 balloons had vouchers stuffed inside. At this venue there was no balcony available so we filled the net at ground level and chain stitched after we’d filled it. Liberty owned their […]
For the last 3 years I’ve been decorating a large restaurant in Mayfair early AM before it opens. The venue is made up of several smaller restaurants each serving different styles of food. Previously they’ve ordered 5 large drops and it’s been a tight turnaround to finish before 10am. This year they doubled the order […]
This balloon drop at The Roundhouse in Camden was a little different because Google wanted big balloons. When we drop smaller 11″ they get jumped on and burst but when BIGGER balloons fall everybody wants to bop them back up into the air and punch them around the room. The Roundhouse itself is a spectacular […]
We’ve been installing arches for Selco at various of their store openings. These are a 1 day promotion so we put the arch in at 6am and return at 6pm to take it down. This included 2 arches in Southampton & Weybridge on the 30th November when storm Clodagh hit the UK. The arches just […]
For this ceiling fill I was given the dimensions of the required space: 5 Metres x 15 meters = 16ft x 50ft = 800 Square Feet If a 12” balloon is 1 square foot we needed 800 to fill the space, so I suggested 1000 to allow for slight overlap. Once this was confirmed I […]