In a few short weeks, a 15-foot Red Ovals (in more colors than red) will suspend from here:
Meanwhile, we’ll be working like mad to make it!
Collaboration
We’re really excited about one of the next projects in our queue: a six-foot Balance made from translucent glass shapes. The shapes are being made by a fellow Portland artist who specializes in glass creations.
The piece will hang above an indoor swimming pool–and the skylights above will help reflect glass and color on the pool.
Stay tuned for photos of the end result!
Sneak Peek
Here's an artistic rendering of a project we're working on right now:
This piece is for a new hospital in Austin, Texas. It will hang about 30 feet tall inside an open lofty-feeling stairwell. Stay tuned for photos of the construction process.
Red Ovals, Updated
We know, we know. We’ve already discussed Red Ovals (see June 3, 2008). But we recently snapped a photo that better captures its elements and color scheme (varying shades of red). Check it out:
Life of the Party
Here’s a mobile we did recently for a corporate awards celebration. Our client wanted two mobiles with shapes that incorporated the logo of the company’s philanthropic arm–the colorful rhombuses displayed on the staircase in the second photo below. The large mobile hung about 10 feet by 10 feet, and the smaller hung about 5 feet by 5 feet. We made the shapes from colored acrylic. We were pleased with how bright and colorful they turned out.
Word has it they were a hit at the party–and they found a permanent home at the corporate offices!
Matt in Action
We just received great photos of Matt installing the mobile for Mahtomedi Middle School (see August 15, 2008).
We love how these photos show just how big a 12-foot mobile really is. Watch your noggin, Matt!
Flight's Photo Shoot
We recently shipped a Flight in various shades of green to Chris, a fellow who told us the mobile will go in his newly constructed modern prefab cabin in West Virginia.
Check it out on his blog, A PreFab Project.
The cabin will be featured in Dwell Magazine’s February 2009 issue–and the mobile arrived just in time for the photo shoot. We’re hoping it makes the cut!
SemiSwing Junior
A client in Houston recently approached us with a challenge: she had a blah corner in her living room that needed a little love. Love in the form of a mobile. She wanted something that would fill the corner, ceiling to floor, without getting in the way.
We took those tight constraints and ran with it, using the SemiSwing design (see June 10, 2008) for inspiration. We tweaked the original design by shortening the rods, making the components more compact, and limiting the mobile’s range of motion. And instead of multiple colors, we gave it a brushed metal finish.
Here’s the final version. We can’t wait to see how lovely it looks in her corner (instead of ours)!
Back to School
Matt’s been on the road, where he just installed a mobile at Mahtomedi Middle School near Minneapolis.
Since the school’s curriculum emphasizes engineering, the administrators wanted a little something that brought together the arts and the sciences.
The solution? A Calder-inspired mobile, designed just for them by our own resident engineer-turned-artist.
The 12-foot-by-12-foot mobile hangs from the 30-foot ceiling of the school’s atrium-style entryway. We hope it inspires plenty of creativity in the students!
Cool-Kids' Mobile
Here's a mobile we made recently for Cool-de-Sac, a kid's cafe/entertainment center in Miami. Although you can't really see the mobile in the context of the play area, you can see how we accomplished their request for bright sorbet-like colors:
