Arches, Drops & Races
The balloon car was built using a few different technics. As you can see the side bars are simple balloon garlands on ali rod. The rest of the car was built with ali rod and modelling balloons. The biggest problem with this project was building the car in sections that would fit though a standard […]
This tea post sculpture fitted in with an Alice and Wonderland theme for a fundraising ball in Hall 4 of The ICC, Birmingham. We made the frame with aluminium rod, netting and gaffa tape and then attached 2000 balloons to the netting with paper clips. This inflating and clipping procedure took 3 staff 5 hours […]
The famous Snow Ball at the ICC Birmingham, unfortunatly it’s famous for all the wrong reasons. None of the suppliers were paid and the event was shown on BBC crimewatch (this picture was used!). This was before decent arch framework was available so all the balloons were helium filled. We were lucky enough to receive […]
Birmingham City Council wanted the main areas of central Brum decorated for VE day back in 2005. We used giant 24″ balloons to build enormous street arches that reached across both ends of New Street. We air filled smaller balloons and pillar wrapped the front of the Council House to match the Red, White & […]