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

"Landmark Creations has been our go-to supplier for 15 years. Tom and his team are people we count on to make our products look good."

- J. Doyle, Scenery First

"The inflatables have been a great success at shows, seminars and especially at pet shops where they help us to coordinate Iams Co. weekends that allow us to promote and increase sales of our products."

-The IAMS Company

"We had the inflatable hockey player out in front of the coliseum and it caused such a crowd! Thanks for the professional job you and your company did for me!"

- Scott Adams, Liquid Box Inc.

"I liked the way Tom listened and shared his ideas with me so that I could use the canyon like I needed. Tom hit a home run with my model. His input made all the difference in the world"

- Laurie Henry, Trinity Science Solutions LLC

"Thank you so much for getting the arch to us in time for our event! The arch looked great and we couldn't of been happier with the look. Looking forward to ordering another arch from you for our 2013 events!"

- Holly Vittengl, Gladiator Assault Challenge

"[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