2008 Projects

Clotheshow Live 08

GPC — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:42:00 +0000

Nine years might be described as a prison sentence, but for us its a real compliment! Congo Blue Design has been providing our particular brand of high quality Feature Stages at the Clotheshow Live Exhibition for nearly a decade...

Fashion Expo 08

GPC — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:56:00 +0000

We were invited by Production Company RAH to come along and meet the Fashion Expo team in order to pitch for building this year's fashion show stage. We were delighted to win the job and then went on to build one of our favourite sets this year!...

Classic Car Show 2008

benteale — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:25:00 +0000

Having lost the show last year to competitors, we were delighted to be called back to the NEC for Classic Car 2008....

SAS Forum 2008

GPC — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:00:00 +0000

For the second year running we were delighted to be asked by our friends at SFL to be involved with the annual SAS Software Forum...

Coty’s at Boots Nottingham

GPC — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:33:00 +0000

It's great to go back to basics sometimes and that’s just what we did to transform an existing conference stage into our magical kingdom!...

Manchester in Fashion

GPC — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:49:00 +0000

Manchester in Fashion is a cutting edge exhibition hosted annually in the Urbis Centre in the heart of Manchester, this year the emphasis was to be on the catwalk show and we were brought in to add the Congo Blue touch!...

Market Place Fashion Show

GPC — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:56:00 +0000

A fashion show to launch the opening of a fashion-orientated Mall in Bolton is right up our street! We were asked by the Mall owners to help them to stage a contemporary event within this newly opened mall, avoiding the usual ‘shopping centre’ cheese. It was our job to design and build a stage that was clean and sophisticated to reflect the feel of the new venue...

Style in the City, Dublin - 2008

GPC — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:49:00 +0000

Brand Events asked us to provide all the technical aspects for Dublin’s first Style in the City; a 40 minute fashion show and a style makeover session with the illustrious Trinny and Susannah

The three-day event was to be held in Merrion Square, a public park, kitted out with marquees for the extravaganza. Shows would run every hour with at least 1,000 people attending each session...

Lingerie & Swimwear Exhibiition Autumn 2008

GPC — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:03:00 +0000

The past 10 shows at the Harrogate Lingerie & Swimwear show have all been a pleasure and this one was no exception!...

Moda UK 2008

GPC — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:50:00 +0000

Looking to step up the production value of the Moda Clothing fashion shows, we suggested using our new Low resolution LED Screen as the entire Stage Set for the event...