NEWSlog

May 2011

Issue 4

 

 

GIDEON's Golden Shoe

From confirmation to installation, the BKI team had seven days to custom fabricate a 3.2 metre, golden high top for the launch of Australian shoe label GIDEON Shoes' new headquarters and flagship store on Chalmers Street in Surry Hills. As if one week from start to finish wasn't a feat in itself, BKI (true to form) upped the ante by opting for the more labour-intensive method of classic custom fabrication using the shoemaker's actual patterns to craft this large scale replica.

 

Read more about how our blood, sweat and tears ended in a star-studded event here >>

 

 

Experiential Marketing Summit

Sydney

BKI was one of the only custom-build companies among the CDs, MDs and BMs

of Australia's leading agencies to attend the Experiential Marketing Summit this year. It was great to see some old faces and meet

a few new ones, not to mention winning the Ultimate Experiential Smackdown.

 

Click here for a quick rundown of the

highlights >>

 

 

The Coke Volcano

The 2011 Easter Show

Big Kahuna Imagineering crafted this

4m-tall Coke bottle with a mechanism that spurts balls from its bottle cap for the 2011 Easter Show.

 

Built to last, this bottle was in action throughout the entire two-week event - tossing up 100 balls with prizes every 20 minutes to eager participants.

 

Click here for a video of the BKI team testing

the mechanism inside >>

 

 

 

 

Coming Up...

The countdown to the 2011 Venice Biennale

is on! While some of us will be slaving away

at the workshop, a few BKI team members

are off to Italy with Hany Armanious and the Australian contingency. Watch our new blog

for an inside look into what goes on behind

the scenes of the world's largest contemporary art exhibition.

 

 

you imagine. we imagineer.

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