Custom Inflatable Creature Brings Rock Band's Album Art to Life

Custom Inflatable Creature Ramps up Rock Band's Onstage Impact

The cover of indie-synth-psychedelic band MGMT's Little Dark Age album displays the face of a sad little clown. When the band was ready to launch their tour, they naturally wanted a stage prop resembling their creepy critter.

Lighting and production designer Susanne Sasic knew exactly what to do.

"We wanted to expand our already existing stage design for the larger scale outdoor festival shows. I thought an inflatable would be the most economical and practical way to make this happen."

Using the cover art as direction, Landmark created an inflatable replica, exactly resembling the yellow creature right down to its rubbery fingers.

"The bright yellow 15-foot-tall creature has high visual impact at big outdoor shows. It is lightweight and easy to transport, simple to setup and use, perfect for the challenging production situations at festivals."

According to Sasic, "The creature has a strangely lifelike quality to it. I'm impressed that Landmark Creations could use as source material such minimally sketched artwork and then bring it to life in the third dimension so effectively."

Sasic says she loved working with Landmark because we "offered great service, a great price, and fast production … and they patiently answered all my questions and made the whole process easy."

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What Others Say About Landmark Creations

“Not only have they been extremely impactful, attracting hundreds of potential consumers to our sampling teams, but the ease in which we can install them has been a great help...”

- B. Gerety, Veryfine Products, Inc.

"We received our inflatable and gave it a test run Saturday afternoon. To be short; Excellent Work. Thanks again for all your efforts."

- Curtis Gadula, Brock University

"[The logo] helped us create a better presence, improved foot traffic, became a photo backdrop and helped us have the best-looking booth at the events,"

- Laura Repreza, KTLM Telemundo 40

“This has created tremendous buzz around town and we have received a great deal of compliments on the Big Tire. Exposure is my goal, and the inflatable does that better than anyone, including me, can do at these events. The Big Tire never takes a break, gets tired or has to take a call. It just keeps shining bright and the kids love it.”

- Ed Chaney, Ed Chaney Tire Center Inc.

"Simply put, the bobbleheads were a real hit at TwinsFest. Over 21,000 fans attended the two-day event raising more than $100,000 for the Twins Community Fund charities."

- Heidi Sammon, Minnesota Twins

"[There was] fun, excitement, and encouragement for everyone to actually walk under/through [the arch] and it worked. We have cheerleaders and small children at the finish line by the arch handing out stickers, saying ‘I did it.’ Before we had the arch, [people] would straggle in anywhere."

- Jackie Allen, March of Dimes