Ever wondered what to do with something that is just not quite looking as sparkling and new as it once did or merely looking to jazz something up a bit?  Well, flocking will definitely give it a new look!

Take an old cornet and make it look funky and new, give a phone a little more of a cosy feel, finish a prop with a softer edge or simply just have a flocked tattoo.  Yes, believe it or not, people can be flocked too.

Plunge now has a flocking machine to add to its wide variety of services we can offer our clients and we’re sure having a lot of fun with it.

More and more people are getting a buzz out of wire buzzer games… and we’ve made a wide variety over the last few months.  From the standard ones, to backlight ones, to one which was set on a light box that changed colour each time you make a error and also when you won.

We’ve also created some fantastic shapes for the players to follow.  Aside from an array of words, we’ve made outlines of wind turbines, skylines and companies logos.   Pretty much anything goes, so long as it can be created out of one solid length of wire.  Who would have thought the old classic wire buzzer game would make such a good promotional tool.

So, are you ready to test how steady your hand really is?

As part of Puma‘s marketing strategy to include the “after hours athlete”,  this summer they installed a temporary shop front, designed by CRM Business Solutions, to their concept store on Carnaby Street in London.  We were asked to build and install the facade which looked like an oversize snooker table, complete with 4 giant snooker balls spelling out PUMA, a cue chalk and various pint glass stains to complete the authentic “after hours athlete” appearance.

An oversized snooker cue wouldn’t have gone amiss but the idea of trying to sort out planning permission was just too much…

Plunge spent a few days in Switzerland recently creating the exhibition stands and reception area for the 2011 International Festival of Media.

We worked with Full Circle to create a number of exhibition stand schemes for sponsors to occupy during the 3 day festival in Montreux. They ranged from a simple 3m x 4m  scheme to a massive 10m long exhibition arena with a gauze screened private area with large globe lights.

The delegates were also greeted by a striking white and pink reception desk created by Plunge.

Now here’s a dramatic way to reveal a dance floor.

Vibration Music came up with the idea of creating a massive snowflake gateway to hide the dance-floor at Chelsea Marquee during dinner. Then, when dinner was over and it was time to hit the dance-floor, the snowflake gates would open up, revealing the black and white dance-floor beyond.

To make the snowflake wall look more dramatic during dinner it was back-lit in blue with mist coming from the dance-floor.

We created the gates on a steel frame, cutting snowflake shapes from sheet plastic which we then clad to the frames.

The impact was amazing.

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It was just one of the number of things we created for their event at Chelsea Marquee over Christmas 2010.

Other installations included..

A giant bead chandelier

A retro vintage television wall.

A giant ski lodge fireplace and bar.

We create a lot of cool stuff at Plunge, but this was really cool!

Sim at Vibration Music had dreamt up a ski lodge theme for Chelsea Marquee and don’t ask me why but he wanted a wall of retro televisions.

All we had to do was source the TVs, rip out the old cathode ray tubes and put new LDC screens inside. Then they needed fitting together into a massive vintage television wall. Vibration then linked them all up and played old TV shows on them during drinks receptions.

We didn’t want to let them go to be honest. Everybody should have a retro TV wall in their life.

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It was one of the number of things we created for their event at Chelsea Marquee over Christmas.

Other installations included..

A 10m wide snowflake gateway

Giant bead chandelier

A giant ski lodge fireplace and bar.

If you need to cozy up in front of a massive fireplace with a glass of gluvine, we’ve just the thing.

We’ve made this ski lodge bar and giant stone fireplace prop for Vibration Music‘s installation at Chelsea Marquee for Xmas 2010.

They really helped to transform the space into a funky lunge for drinks receptions.

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It was one of the number of things we created for their event at Chelsea Marquee over Christmas.

Other installations included..

A 10m wide snowflake gateway

A retro vintage television wall.

A giant bead chandelier

Need something to add a bit of sparkle to a gala dinner or special event.

Look no further than this giant crystal bead chandelier we created for Vibration Music. It contains over 400m of iridescent beads!

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It was one of the number of things we created for their event at Chelsea Marquee over Christmas.

Other installations included..

A 10m wide snowflake gateway

A retro vintage television wall.

A giant ski lodge fireplace and bar.

Fancy a cuppa?

Got 10000 tea bags?

You’ll need them to get a half decent cup of tea in these 4 giant teacup props.

We’ve just built these for Jamie Oliver’s Feastival on Clapham Common in London. Our direct client was Rouge Events who were tasked with bringing The Feastival to life.

They were initially carved from huge blocks of polystyrene, which we then hard-coated and painted.

Each of the giant tea cups has a bed inside for Feastival goers to relax in after stuffing their faces on the yummy grub on offer.

Who knows what will happen to them afterwards. I’m guessing one almighty crockery smash.

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Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been busy building branded furniture for the Warehouse Project in Manchester.

The Creative Resource in London designed a collection of furniture for the Puma sponsored bar area. The furniture was designed to look like packing crates and was made in pretty much the same way as standard crates. The packing crate seats, tables, poseur tables and stools were all made from pine and plywood, with LED lighting in the glass topped tables.

The designer also wanted the furniture to be easily transportable and so he designed a number of large crate-style privacy booths that the other items fitted in to.

Finally Puma wanted a central display of a table tennis bat and some pool cues to focus on their After Hours Athletes campaign.

Sadly we were unable to get to the Warehouse Project in Manchester but we’re told it was a tremendous success. Maybe next year…….