Installation 2010 – Episode 1

Have you ever wondered how giant-scale decorations are fixed in place?
In town and city centre schemes it’s quite easy to see the brackets on the lampposts and the wires and cables on the displays running across the street but the fixings aren’t quite so obvious in shopping centres. Next time you visit your local centre have a look upwards and see if you can spot anything.
Our prefix teams are out now ahead of our installation teams to do final site surveys. They put in place all the hooks and fastenings that the lights and decorations will hang from and make sure that all the power leads will be long enough to reach the sockets and so on and so forth. This forward planning can make all the difference between installation running to plan or it being problematic. All these fixings aren’t easy to spot the rest of the year but if you take a look once your centre’s all decorated; it’s interesting to be able to see where they all are.

Christmas Installation Diary 2010 - Prologue

As you may know our sister company, LDJ Design and Display, based, like us, in Skipton, North Yorkshire, specialises in bespoke-designed displays of wonderful decoration schemes for shopping centres across the UK and Europe.  We are surrounded by Christmas all the time as production is a year-round job for our specialist teams and we’re busy on the final run now, it’s a hive of activity in our workshops getting the last of this year’s displays ready and finishing packing them safely for transporting.  We know that for most people Christmas is just a dot on the distant horizon but, in common with the retail sector, for us it’s just around

the corner.  Although the beginning of October marks the start of the busiest time of our year, organisation for the installation of the decorations begins in February each year. We have to make sure that everything is in the right place at the right time so that the whole process runs smoothly and that everything is ready for our clients’ switch-on dates during November. There’s a buzz of excitement around the building at the moment as this year’s installation schedule is on the verge of beginning so check back next Friday for Episode 1 of Installation 2010.

URBAN ORIGAMI

Our lights are not only used for the purpose of aesthetis at Christmas, parties or celebrations but are also featured in Jools Johnsons art work exhibited at PM Gallery & House in London.
The artwork in question, starts off as a constellation of lights that is run on pre set random mode. However, at certain random points the viewer is able to read the text within the artwork that spells out 'Will anyone miss me....?'

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Linda lights up our screens with LDJ Lights

Linda Barker has chosen to use LDJ's very own decorative LED fairy lights to brighten up Dorothy's room in Romford on Friday's (9th April) episode of 60 minute makeover.
http://www.itv.com/lifestyle/60minutemakeover/series7suppliers200910/romfordessex/default.html

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Purple Apple Marketing Awards

LDJ are proud to be the main sponsor for the BCSC Purple Apple Marketing Awards. The awards recongnise and reward effective shopping and town centre marketing within the UK retail industry. These awards showcase new industry standards of innovation, delivery and performance, taking shopping centre marketing to the next level.

For more information visit: http://www.bcsc.org.uk/purpleappleevents.asp

LDJ compete in charity run

On 21st June 2009 LDJ staff competed in the Jane Tomlinson 10k run around Leeds to raise money for Jane's Appeal. An impressive £3,646 pounds was raised to see us all suffer, so we would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who sponsored us. http://www.janesappeal.com/