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Sportogo Inc is a California corporation established in 1996 and run by company President, and internationally-known product
designer, Rod Blair. We specialize in custom design and manufacturing of products for the rental, trade show, advertising, and
architectural markets primarily at our facility in Bakersfield, California.
Sportogo Inc has many different services located on site that allow us to design, develop, and manufacture almost anything you
can think of in record time. We rely on outside companies and contractors as little as possible to control costs and insure the highest
quality and fastest manufacturing possible. On site currently we have the following abilities:
•Full design staff of electrical, mechanical, and industrial engineers headed by Rod Blair.
•Large-scale industrial fabric cutting.
•Large-scale industrial sewing (single stitch, double stitch, and over lock stitching)
•Industrial-level laser capable of cutting several hundred parts an hour out of acrylic, wood, and most metals to a precision of
millimeters.
•Laser etching of most materials including tile, glass, acrylic, metal, and even wood.
•Vinyl welding and painting
•Mechanical tube-bending
•Full-service welding of all metals including specialty metals such as titanium
All of the above in-house services have enabled Sportogo to design and make prototypes and specialty projects like what you
will see on the following pages in a matter of days or a few weeks as opposed to the weeks or months that other companies will take.
Our fast turn-around times and quality work is why companies such as Google, Nike, Fruitopia, Johnsonville Brat, Sony Ericsson,
Remax, Tecate, McDonald’s, the Davis Cup, ESPN, Vodafone, and the Verb governmental national exercise campaign have come to
us first for their custom manufacturing needs.
We have also made props for movies such as Kicking and Screaming, John Tucker Must Die, and Mister Magorium’s Wonder
Emporium as well as for TV shows such as The Amazing Race, MTV’s Real World/Road Rules, House, Wipeout, Ripley’s Believe it
or Not, and Dateline NBC.
There is no other company available who has such a unique collection of resources in house at your disposal and we at Sportogo
Inc cannot wait to put these services and our expertise to work for you to create that one idea that will make your marketing campaign
or movie stand out. Give a call or email us today to get a free price quote.
Sportogo Inc
2459 Fruitvale Avenue #5
Bakersfield, CA 93308
661-321-4937
Fax: 661-321-49356
Email: [email protected]
Inflatable Projects
The following 3 pages will highlight some of our favorite inflatable projects over the years. You will see examples of sealed air inflatables (like parade balloons), cold air
inflatables (like bounce houses), and inflatables made out of our own two layer inflatable construction method. No matter what your vision there is almost nothing inflatable
that we cannot make.
17-foot cold air basketball
for the Bakersfield Jam
developmental league
basketball team
8-Foot balls with faces for Friends With You’s interactive art piece
Cloud City in 2005 during Art Basel Miami
Rotating mobile for Friends With You’s art piece called Dream Maker
that was installed at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2008. This mobile
has a span of over 45 feet in diameter!
The six cold-air monkeys on this page were made for graphic
designer Stefan Sagmeister as part of his “Things I Have
Learned in My Life So Far” series of art projects. One
monkey was placed in each of the six cities in Scotland and the
meaning of the sentence was only clear if you visited all six
cities or saw the monkeys combined by the media.
Dundee
Inverness
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Stirling
Aberdeen
This bounce house and the balls inside were made from
original drawings by Friends With You for 944 Magazine’s 3rd
anniversary party at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las
Vegas in July of 2008. This bounce house was an incredible
18’W x 18’L x 19’H!
Sealed air inflatable parade balloons
made for Friends With You for their
Skywalkers art parade during Art
Basel Miami 2006
Oddly shaped two-part custom
inflatables for Friends With You’s art
show Wish Come True at the Soo
Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis, MN
in 2007. The public was invited to kick,
hit and play with the shapes as much as
they wanted.
Giant Snow Globes
10-foot snow globe
With performer for
the National Zoo in
Washington, DC.
10-foot snow globe
for Lincoln Park
Zoo in Chicago, IL
10-foot snow globe
for Lincoln Park
Zoo in Chicago, IL
10-foot snow globe
with flying snow
option made for
Jameson Whiskey
In Ireland
10-foot ¾ domed walk-in snow globe for the
New York Hall of Science in New York, NY.
15-foot igloo-shaped walk-in snow globe for the
Ocean Park in Hong Kong
Giant Sports Balls
40” Basketball
40” Red/White Soccer Ball
40” Beachball
8-foot baseball
48” Football
15-Foot Soccer Ball
Other Projects
The following 3 pages will highlight some of our favorite constructed projects over the years. You will see projects made in wood, metal, foam, and just about every other
type of material we could get our hands on.
Graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister contracted us to make a table that could be lit from
the bottom as part of his ongoing series entitled “Things I Have Learned in my Life So
Far”. Martini glasses were stacked in rows three high that spelled out the words “Low
Expectations” and filled with punch. The stirring sticks had the balance of his message
“Are a Good Strategy”. The words Low Expectations were drank away during the
evening while pictures were shot overhead and displayed around the room.
8-Foot preying mantis
made from steel.
8-Foot foam and steel golf ball wired into a junked out
car. Made for the PGA Tour Superstore. The car and ball
were placed on a flatbed truck and driven around
Phoenix for a month.
14-foot tall block room with locked door. This was used
for storing trade show samples and leads.
Giant tennis rackets (68” high)
This is a 30-foot tall BBQ grill made for
Johnsonville Brat. The idea was to
celebrate daylight savings time by
dropping a giant Johnsonville Brat on top
of a giant grill. Both the brat and grill
were designed, made, transported and
installed onsite in Chicago within a 5week period.
Functioning light pole with a 7-foot tennis
ball made of foam and metal embedded in the
middle. This was made for Sony Ericsson to
announce their sponsorship of the tennis
tournament in Miami, FL..
Sportogo in the Press