Balloon Artist: Inflatable Empire Hats

Balloon art can fill a room without leaving the ground. Airigami says its projects primarily use latex and usually contain air, and that larger sculptures can keep their appearance when individual balloons are lost. The construction has its own practical language: burton + BURTON teaches joining two duplets into a quad, then securing successive quads with monofilament. Balloon Masters describes a coordinated strike as a return visit to pop the balloons after the event. That mixture of construction and impermanence is the setting for these balloon artist hats. BALLOON ARTIST and BALLOON TWISTER name the work; BALLOON KING gives it a crown. I BUILT AN EMPIRE OUT OF BALLOONS turns the installation into a royal achievement, while ALL MY MONEY IS TIED UP IN BALLOONS makes the knot do the accounting. The balloon-dog comparison and the claim to make friends out of balloons take the same material somewhere sillier. Every design is custom embroidered on a dad hat. The empire boast and the handmade-friends joke each have a second colorway, with flat text and a mix of bold badges and dry serif sentences. Pick a hat for a twister, a decorator, or the artist whose kingdom comes down at strike.