Castle Light Ice Sculptures

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Castle Lights Ice Ice Baby theme, ties in perfectly with our ice sculpture product and as a result the brand further leveraged its campaign by commissioning Ice Art to create a batch of ice display fridges which held the Castle Light product for brand display, ice drinks chests that held 50 bottles each, and Ice Golf putt-putt courses were produced for the VIP before function, championship tent and Castle Light tent.

The ice golf was a hit as always and if you could get three “hole in ones”, there were some fantastic prizes to be won.

For more information and details you can check out our website here or check out the Ice Art Press Office here.

The ice golf course was made out the Ice Art factory and brought to site to be installed. After leveling the playing field to make sure the ball did not roll with gravity we installed the slabs of ice. Once all aligned, the ice sculpture was ironed to be a totally flat playing surface, using a stainless steel sheet heated in the sun – and then the ice rails which made up the sides were added. The queue to chance your luck on the course was 50 m long at one stage!

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Interactive Ice Sculptures

For the most part, an ice sculpture can stand alone as a feature, as purely a static decor item. The look and feel of the ice is unique enough to carry this off. Therefore ice sculptures of Logo's, animals, product replicas etc...can generate enough of an appeal all by their lonesome selves.

However, the fantastic thing about ice sculptures, and something we like to focus on at Ice Art is bring interactive elements into the mix when the function or event suits it. Ice sculptures can be made into Luge's for pouring shooters, or for a more permanent flow they can also double up as a drinks fountain with the liquid flowing through the ice sculpture and into a catch tray. Live ice carvings on site for guests is very entertaining, but even more so when we can actually pull out members of the guest party and let them assist us on the completion of the ice sculptures... normally towards the beginning so that there is less chance of them hacking off a crucial part of the almost finished sculpture!

Sculptures that chill bottles, or keep seafood or ice cream cold are great ways to make use of the ice sculptures temperature properties as well as its visual elements.

Ice Bars for exanple, can easily be converted into a seafood station, or even an ice cream station - looks fantastic and serves an icy purpose too.

There are examples of this on our Press Office and our website - www.iceart.co.za

For more images and examples of these concepts please visit our press office - The SA Golf Open Ice golf ball shows a great example of a fountain, and the Vawter Ice Chest shows am excellent way to chill bottles and have them on display with branding at the same time ( see above image ). There is also an image below of the fountain.

Of course, making use of the the cold temperature of the ice sculptures in South Africa is a must on many occasions as it can be extremely hot here during the summer season.

Ice Sculpture - Logo's.... Frozen Assets

When it comes to ice carvings and ice sculptures, replication of logos in ice is a common request and of course a speciality at Ice Art... always proving itself to be a fantastic method to generate a focal point around a brand or activation.

We have our own press office which covers many of the gigs we have been part of over the years for clients - To visit our press offices for some cool images click on the link below:

http://www.bizcommunity.com/PressOffice.aspx?i=120562

The ice sculptures can be pre-carved in our freezer and delivered as completed items or carved on site at the event as an interactive entertainment peice. Every logo is different and requires a different approach based on its design, fragility and also the final scale that the logo will be produce on. Fine details on a small scale can melt quickly when carved 3D, and so if the ice sculpture is very intricate, an engraving technique is used with snow, aptly named snowfill, to create a contrast image of this subject - the Ferrari and Ogilvy logos are great examples of this.

Whereas the Maserati and the Smart Car logos are 3D. A combination of the two techniques also produces a great effect. A client's physical brand, such as a product, can also be replicated as in the case of the Bell's Truck and the Merc S class.

To view our website and images of these sculptures click here

The ice medium has always intrigued people and generates a hub of interest around the sculpture, with guests up close and personal with the brand. The focal point also offers a great corporate photo opportunity.

Logo work can be combined with a fountain or a functional items such as an ice bar, ice service station, ice drinks cooler etc...

Ice Sculptures in the Heat of Summer

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It is a question that I receive on a regular basis from clients new to the Ice Sculpture industry and the service that we provide at Ice Art in South Africa.

People are usually only familiar with the quality of ice blocks that they find or make themselves in their freezer. This is standard, low quality - or dirty ice as we call it. Full of all the natural salts found in water and also dissolved air which results in a porous crystalline weak structure of ice. It looks terrible and is full on air bubbles and melts very quickly. It is not suitable at all for high quality ice sculptures for a high end market. It may only be suitable to practice or teach the skill of ice sculpting.

At Ice Art, we only produce ice carving quality blocks. Each one 150kg of crystal clear ice. This is the only suitable quality ice for ice sculptures and ice bars, or in fact any ice structure as this ice is completely uniform, has no air bubbles and the dissolved salts have been removed in the manufacturing process. This strength allows us to build solid structures such as Ice Bars or Ice Walls or large scale installations for events and functions. Special machines or block makers are used to produce these ice blocks. At Ice Art we produce around 15 tons of this quality ice per month to service our industry of hand carved ice sculptures.

For more information please visit us at www.iceart.co.za

The result of this quality ice is that even in the heat of the SA summer the ice sculptures can remain looking good for 6-8 hours. Possible longer depending on the designs robustness.

For my information on ice sculptures for your events, functions, launches and parties please contact James Cussen, here at Ice Art for more information on Ice Bars, Ice Centrepieces, Ice Carvings and Ice Sculptures of any nature.

Ice Sculptures - The Art of Ice Carving

Ice Carving, as an art, was first recorded in china more than 1500 years ago. Quite something - who was the first person who made a committed decision to make ice his sculptural medium of choice? I don't have record of his name - but I can guarantee that it was a Chinese name.

At Ice Art we channel our passion and efforts into creating each hand carved ice sculpture, Ice Bar, ice centrepiece on a spectacular level. We do not make use of moulds or mechanised machinery. Its all skill of the hand and eye.

For more information and images please visit our website on www.iceart.co.za

As a commercial industry the ice carving niche has been in existence for more than 60 years and is at its largest on the continents of the Americas and Canada.

A very specific ice block is used for this industry and on the whole it is a great expense to produce each block, which only has a quality requirement of this nature in the ice carving industry. One can get away with poor quality ice for drinks, or seafood dressing, or general purpose chilling.

For Ice carving, the construction of Ice Bars, Ice walls or Ice installations such as the V+A Ice Lounge only the most clear, uniform and structurally pure ice will suffice in order to be safe. Being clear it does not simply look great but it is also uniform in strength and free from weak pourous spots or fractures.