Posts by cmbirch

When Total Solutions was asked if we could design and build a loop the loop in 4 weeks we thought that we had already heard it all.

Artist Michael Pinsky launches Fidget, a campaign run by London Arts in Health Forum to highlight the facts about physical activity and the way it affects our health.

The Apple was another moving prop used in the London 2012 paralympic opening ceremony.

‘The Book ‘ was one of four moving props we manufactured for the Paralympic opening ceremony. The idea was for two athletes to be atop of large moving ‘ roladex’ type structure that constantly rotated the pages of the declaration of human rights.

The designer wanted to get Freddie Mercury into the show, to get the crowd going, and what better way to do this than project his image onto 4, 6.5 metre x 3.6 metre projection screens, which were then to be fitted to the back of 4 x three and a half tonne tipper trucks!

“We need a stage for the acts to perform on. Can you make it in time “, was the call from the production manager and was in the middle of all the other work we were doing for the closing ceremony.

“Can you make a set piece to fly Darcey Bussell from the roof of the stadium to the centre of the field of play?” No pressure for us then!

The brief was to provide a scale size model emulating the look of the Gherkin with the ‘twist’ that a number of trapeze artists would run around it and jump through it.