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Talbot Designs’ Dome Causes a Stir within the Women’s Institute

Mention the word ‘Dome’ to some people and the image is conjured of the newly-revived structure in London’s docklands. But not all domes are equal. In fact, plastics fabricator, Talbot Designs, is perhaps the pre-eminent producer of domes – creating structures in 160 sizes up to 2.2m in diameter – each of which has a glittering role right from the start.

So when a trade association wanted a giant ‘mixing bowl’ for a stunt with the Women’s Institute to cause a stir about the benefits of recycling aerosols, its marketing team asked Talbot Designs to create an enormous plastic dome. The dome was a perfect means of illustrating the mixing of an oversized ‘cake’ of empty metal cans and aerosols to raise awareness about recycling as a means of salvaging an annual 30,000 tonnes of high grade metal in the UK.

The image, which was produced for a campaign by the trade body, BAMA – the British Aerosol Manufacturers’ Association - appeared across the back cover of the Women’s Institute magazine. The picture featuring the dome was a light-hearted means of alerting people to a serious topic.

Talbot Designs’ Managing Director, Richard Woolff, said: “The versatility of our domes is immense. Talbot Designs’ domes have been used for hundreds of different applications. Just a few examples are:  window displays in a major Knightsbridge store, for light-fittings at Charing Cross Station and for a Royal Academy exhibition using distorting, metallised domes. We work fast and accurately and can usually deliver within the UK within 24 hours”.

Pictured: Two members of the Islington WI, (l-r Sarah Nightingale and Gemma Woznicki) use the Talbot Designs ‘mixing-bowl’. The picture appeared in the WI Magazine which reaches 200,000 members in England, Wales and the Channel Islands.