Balloon Race Updates

Royal Academy

We supplied 80 x 36″ Lime Balloons helium filled to The Royal Academy, Piccadilly. Arriving at 6am 3 crew had all 80 filled & ready for 8.30am. They lasted well for 24 hours but then the extreme heat kicked in. The hot weather cooked the moisture from the latex and made the balloons brittle. They […]

21

Unusual for me to do a private party but here’s a 21 made with aluminium rod, free standing on base plates and poles. The back wall was a mixture of air and helium filled foil balloons spilling out onto the ceiling. I connected the balloons together with small cable ties. Apart from the 10 helium […]

Sustainable

What part of balloons are sustainable and unsustainable? I would argue that an air filled latex balloon is 100% sustainable and biodegradable – latex found in nature is a milky fluid found in 10% of all flowering plants. Not that you should listen to me, recently a balloon drop was banned and drops are just […]

My Passport

Now I’m getting older (I’ve just turned 50) I’ve started to like things like Radiators? I know it’s crazy but you might catch me occasionally looking at one and saying “WOW, look at that”. Particularly exhibit A, this 21 panel radiator has just been installed in our hall. I stood there and looked at it […]

3ft ICC

Here’s some 36″ Purple Violet balloons printed 2 sides & helium filled for the IAAF. These were installed in Hall 3, ICC, Birmingham. Screen printing 36″ can be an expensive process so sometimes we’ll use vinyl graphics if we can. Vinyls save the cost of giant screens, setup and ink.  

London Metropole

We decorated The Hilton London Metropole with various cloud shapes on 4 floors & a function room. The event was for a Kraft Heinz conference and we only had a 3 hour window to install. See also: Clouds in Mayfair. The decorations included these bunches printed with 10 logos on 5 colour balloons: