Airstar News
31st January 2012LOUIS VUITTON
Sydney Flagship Store Opening – VIP Party
Following the formalities, guests partied at the “Moneybox” building (old Commonwealth Bank). The creative talents of David Grant (dg3) and Ziggy Ziegler (lighting designer – ZZ Creative Services) saw our lighting balloons transformed into “hot air balloons” with beatiful antique LV luggage as the baskets.
HERMES
Annual Beach Party at Shark Bay, Vaucluse
Reflecting the lifestyle and spirit of Hermes, this event featured sandcastles, a mirror wall, giant swing, huge bracelets and Airstar’s beautiful lighting balloons. Scattered on the beach were our LED “Cubes” as decoration and seating for guests, along with our LED “balls” – all in white. Thank you to David and Emma at dg3 for choosing Airstar.
SYDNEY FESTIVAL 2012
ANZ “Chill Out Zone” at the Keystone Bar
“First Night” is a celebration on a massive scale, with entertainment throughout the Sydney CBD. Organisers and VIP’s follow the festivities with a party at Hyde Park Barracks, where the Keystone Bar is a perennial favourite and ANZ hosted their “Chill Out Zone”.
CHRISTMAS
Colour and Style
On a large scale at Sydney’s cavernous Royal Hall of Industries for 3,000+ invitees, to Doltone House where our vibrant LED table centrepieces gave the room a festive burst of colour.
HYUNDAI – AGAIN
Exit Films shoots “Get Moving” TVC
A change from Blue to Green for our 4m Towairs and again, simplicity packs a punch.
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AIRSTAR FOR EXIT FILMS “GET MOVING” TVC
4m Green "Towairs"
VARIETY NSW
Christmas Party for 5,000 Very Special Kids, their Parents & Carers
Again the Variety volunteers brought joy to chilldren who are sick, disadvantaged or have special needs at their annual Christmas Party. The party includes activities, gifts and entertainment to help children enjoy the spirit of Christmas whilst giving many families a break from the day to day routine of caring for a child with special needs or serious illness. For other children the party is a time to create happy Christmas memories after experiencing abuse or neglect in their lives. Helping with colour and signage, we felt priveleged to be part of such a wonderful day.
Variety NSW Kids Christmas Party
JP MORGAN COPORATE CHALLENGE
Road Race in Centennial Park
The 11th running of the J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge in Centennial Park saw nearly 7,500 runners and walkers take advantage of perfect weather to have a night of unmatched camaraderie, competition and team-building. This event is held in many cities throughout the world.
NEW PRODUCT – “DELICE”
Light Pathways, Float in Water, Table decorations
Airstar’s new “Delice” range comes in lots of shapes and sizes. They are LED and can change colour or be set to one colour. Here they are floating in our dam, and in a pond.
INDUSTRY CONFERENCE & DINNER
Screen Producer’s Association – Doltone House
The annual conference includes an awards dinner and Airstar lined the deck with pink themed lighting balloons.
MALTHOUSE THEATRE, MELBOURNE
Season 2012 Launch
RANDWICK RACING CARNIVALS
Corporate Hospitality & Signage
During the Spring and Autumn Carnivals at Randwick, the corporate marquees are found in the “Top of the Rise” precinct. We add glamour there and combined lighting/signage for departures.
BACK TO SCHOOL
There is always fundraising: Art Shows, Fairs, Dinners and Ceremonies. At The Kings School’s beautiful “Gowan Brae” building, we helped decorate for an evening Cocktail Party in the gardens. Frensham Girl’s School in Mittagong (Southern Highlands) held an Art Show spread around the buildings and gardens of the campus.
HYUNDAI TV COMMERCIAL
End of Year Clearance – we love the stunning simplicity. Our 4m LED “Towairs” set to blue for Hyundai and Exit Films.
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AIRSTAR FOR HYUNDAI TVC
OPERA HOUSE EVENT
Iconic location, fantastic ambience. Airstar at the Opera House!
ART & ABOUT SYDNEY
Sydney’s Hyde Park : September – October 2011
Celebrating its 10th Anniversary, the City of Sydney’s “living gallery on the streets” throughout September and October is a world-class public arts festival. In addition to the traditional banners, Airstar Lighting balloons hung overhead down the central walkway of Hyde Park were a highly visible and artistic way of promoting this event right in the heart of the city. We also helped add gravitas for Citibank as sponsor of the “Night Noodle Markets”.
THE RENOVATORS
Auction Finals for Network 10 and Shine Australia
Six auctions in six locations with six colour themes for the finals of this series. Airstar helped to add colour and a festive ambience to the auction crowd and on-screen excitement.
SINGAPORE F1 GRAND PRIX 2011
The longest, toughest and only night-time Grand Prix is held each September in Singapore. While the drivers and teams stayed on European time, our colleagues were busy installing more than 500 Airstar lighting balloons to bring light, branding, signage and a festive ambience throughout the F1 precinct.
MYER MISS SHOP FASHION
Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival
Our techs really enjoyed working on the Myer Miss Shop fashion parade at Sydney Town Hall during the Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival. With less than 2 hours to install six helium filled Airstar lighting balloons, they achieved a fantastic result, before bumping-out in record time so the next parade could hit the runway. Airstar – quick to install and so creative.
RUGBY WORLD CUP NZ 2011
“The Cloud” aka Party Central
At almost 180m long, “The Cloud” on Auckland’s waterfront was the epicentre of celebrations hosting concerts, events, VIP’s and international media. Airstar was invited to hang our air-filled halogen lighting balloons at different heights down the length of this amazing structure. They looked stunning! Decorative through the day, their beauty really shone at night and helped create a magical feature at Queens Wharf. From hosting the Pacific Leader’s Forum, “The Cloud”then became the pre-eminent site for fans and for showcasing NZ to the rest of the world.
AIRSTAR JELLI-LIGHTS AT VIVID SYDNEY
Stunning Creatures at the MCA, Circular Quay
27 May – 13 June
With Sydney Harbour and the Opera House as a backdrop, we are proud to be part of the “Light Sculptures” on display at Circular Quay for this year’s “Vivid Sydney”. Vivid Sydney is a “canvas of light, music and ideas that colours the city with creativity and inspiration”.
Despite the despicably wet and windy conditions, our fearless technicians – Ted and Razali (on secondment from Singapore) – braved the elements to install the Jelli-Lights in readiness for the official launch on Friday 27th May.
Here’s what the Vivid Sydney website says:
22) Jellight by Simon Lee, Aamer Taher & Pascal Petitjean [AUSTRALIA, SINGAPORE, FRANCE]
Jellight giant jellyfish float magically above our harbour in this film like installation. The artists created these imaginative light Jellies for you to imagine them floating away from earth. The sculptural, eliptical light balloons depict jellyfish departing the polluted oceans to escape into the universe as ‘reverse UFOs’. The colourful light emanates from the robust lighting balloons producing 360-degree non-glare light sources.
French lighting designer Pascal Petitjean, co-creator of Lighting Balloons, teams with Australian film light expert Simon Lee and Singapore architect Aamer Taher. Petitjean has been involved with projects such as The Titanic and the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Lee has been involved with lighting films including Moulin Rouge, King Kong, Australia and Avatar. Taher trained at London’s School of Architecture and is a council member of the Singapore Institute of Architects.
24th May 2011LEXUS AT THE MELBOURNE F1 GRAND PRIX
Leveraging Sponsorship
Making their sponsorship investment work even harder, Lexus featured our Lighting Balloons in their corporate hospitality precinct for the duration of the F1 2011 Melbourne Grand Prix. They light cars beautifully.
24th May 2011
WRIGLEYS 100 YEARS
Daltone House, Sydney
An event celebrating Wrigleys 100 Years in Australia welcomed guests with a stunning multi-colour display by Airstar at Daltone House.
24th May 2011
FASHION WEEK 2011
Miss Unkon
We surprised the fashion world with Airstar on the catwalk at Miss Unkon. Airstar is not only visually interesting, the light is perfect for photography.
(Pic April Rose Pengilly)
24th May 2011VW at SWANS HOME GAMES
FAN ZONE – ACTIVATION
We’ve been having fun with VW at their “Fan Zone” on Driver Avenue during the Swans Home games in Sydney. Kids can test their skills in the handball challenge and sing the Club song.
Using Airstar lighting balloons emblazoned with the VW logo, it is a stand-out at every game.
GOVERNOR GENERAL – ADMIRALTY HOUSE
Campaign for Wool Launch
Held at Admiralty House in Sydney on March 31, Quentin Bryce hosted the launch of a 5 year “Campaign for Wool”. Over 30 fashion labels were represented in a fashion parade which included designers Collette Dinnigan, Dion Lee, Martin Grant and Richard Nicholl.
The catwalk featured Airstar Lighting Balloons hung from the marquee ceiling, making a stylish statement whilst enhancing the fashion and providing perfect lighting for guests and photographers.
We also placed our lighting balloons around the gardens of Admiralty House to create ambience with the stunning backdrop of Sydney Harbour and the Opera House.
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GOVERNOR GENERAL LAUNCHES WOOL CAMPAIGN
DAVID JONES AUTUMN/WINTER 2011
The iconic Elizabeth Street store was the venue for this important fashion launch. Airstar lighting balloons with “David Jones” branding lit the black carpet for celebrity arrivals, photographs and interviews.
Our thanks to Coty Farquar – a very talented stylist and blogger – for her clever montage.
cotyfarquhar.blogspot.com
PASPALEY SILVER PARTY
Stylish Fundraising at Otto Restaurant
The 11th Annual “Silver Party”, sponsored by Paspaley, was held in February at Otto Restaurant in Sydney.
Airstar Australia helped create a stunning entrance with “Pearl” lights forming a pathway along the historic wharf and on the red carpet – beautifully decorative and also perfect lighting for photographers. More than $325,000 was raised for the Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation.
AMWAY EVENT SYDNEY OLYMPIC PARK
Dinner and Entertainment for Thousands
More than 8,000 business delegates from Amway China came to Sydney Olympic Park in January 2011. Triumph Leisure Solutions produced a spectacular live show for the visitors on 4 different nights. Airstar Australia helped realise the “Island / Sea” theme with helium filled balloons swathed in fabric to create ethereal floating jellyfish. High above were fantasy creatures we call “Medusas”.
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AMWAY EVENT by Triumph Lesiure Solutions
RSVP – EVENT INDUSTRY TRADE SHOW
The annual 2 day RSVP event industry exhibition includes an “After Dark” party for exhibitors and guests. Airstar partnered with the organisers to create a stunning ambience at the Museum of Sydney.
DARLING HARBOUR NEW YEAR’S EVE
Lights, Music, Fireworks
AIRSTAR helped to bring vibrant colour to Sydney’s Darling Harbour precinct using 24 coloured lighting balloons mounted on poles around the foreshore. Crowds were entranced, taking photographs and enjoying the reflections in the water.
And at Parramatta….
The Parramatta River came to life with our lighting ballooons positioned along the North Bank where families gathered for the festivities and fireworks.
AIRSTAR FOR THE UNEXPECTED
Not all balloons are round! We do wierd and wonderful things for our clients! Please call us to talk about your ideas.
Solar Equation at Federation Square -Media Exposure
Many example of recent national and international media attention surrounding the 14 metre Airstar balloon, floating 20 metres from the ground at Federation Square from 4 June – 4 July, 2010.
The lighting projection was designed by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and could be controlled by the crowd via a specially designed iPhone application.
Washington Post
India Times
The Guardian
USA Today
Melbourne Jazz Festival Installation
Airstar Australia supplied 15 x 500mm LED “Orbs” that become the centre piece of Dom Bartolo’s company, 21-19, installation for the Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2010.
The Places in Between from Domenico Bartolo on Vimeo.
25th May 2010Tropicana “Arctic Sun”
See an amazing example of how beautiful and functional airstar balloon lighting can be….
Of course, if anyone in Australia requires airstar balloon lighting for the purposes of a stunning advertisement such as the Tropicana Advertisement in Europe below…you know where to find us…
“On January 8, we brought the sun to Inuvik, Northwest Territories. Because we believe brighter mornings make for brighter days.” Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/tropicanacanada
Airstar for
So much more than lighting.