We completed this mobile for St. Norbert’s college in De Pere, Wisconsin. The design is similar to the mobile we created for the North Austin Women’s Hospital last fall, but we scaled down the dimensions to 12 feet tall by 16 feet wide. And, at the request of the client, we had some shapes powdered coated in bold colors, while other shapes retained a polished finish.
Here’s a mobile we just finished up for St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Appleton, Wisconsin.
The mobile hangs 10 feet tall with a 6 foot diameter. It’s made of stainless-steel tube frame. The stainless-steel shapes are brushed on one side, polished on the other size, which gives a really cool effect when the shapes spin.
To keep the mobile pristine, we shipped the mobile with the polished side fully covered.
You may have noticed in this picture that it's pitch black outside. That's because a couple of night owls finished this project at 3 a.m. Talk about workaholics.
And, in case you're wondering, here's how the mobile is shipped:
A few years back we did a promotional mobile for a Portland-based band called Menomena. We thought the mobile would hang in music stores, but we never did see one in our local record store.
Well, a few weeks back, while trolling this fair city, check out what Matt spotted:
A Menomena mobile! We're so glad to know they're alive, well, and still in circulation.
One of our clients wants a hanging sculpture for a new hospital in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. The client requested a piece that somehow represents the surrounding mountains.
Here’s the rough 2-D concept we came up with:
And here's the graphic rendering and model our very talented industrial-design intern did with it:
(Somebody's going to get a glowing letter of recommendation.)
Despite what this picture might indicate, our Saudi Arabian mobile is starting to take shape.
In a few months, a 30-foot-tall Ekko Mobile will hang in the children's area of a Saudi Arabian palace. All based on this design:
We weren’t kidding when we said rough. Stay tuned, ‘cause the final result won’t include any masking tape, paper, or wooden dowels.
Full disclosure: these mobiles are actually brushed aluminum and brushed copper. But we couldn’t help thinking of that old camp tune, “Make New Friends,” because this project entailed revisiting an old design and creating an all-new one.
The project included six 4-feet tall mobiles for a designer we frequently work with. She’s planning to hang them in small decorative niches at a newly completed hospital.
Below are images of two of the six mobiles we made. We did three designs total, half in brushed aluminum and half in brushed copper. The first image was based on Silver Forest, a piece we designed a few years back for an ultra-modern cabin in North Carolina. The next image is a new design we came up with just for this project.
And we still can’t decide which we enjoy more–revisiting old designs or creating all-new ones. Eh, it’s all fun.
Here’s a mobile we recently sent off for a client’s home in Chicago. This piece hangs about 12 feet wide by 4 feet long. We still haven’t come up with a name for this mobile. Any suggestions?
(We can’t wait to see pictures of this in the client’s home, because our shop doesn’t really make the nicest backdrop!)
Whew. We’re happy to report that the mobile for the Methodist Children’s Hospital in San Antonio is finally complete!
Everything (eventually) arrived safely, although one pallet went temporarily AWOLsomewhere between Portland and Albuquerque. Fortunately, the freight company found it and got it to San Antonio just in time for the install. (Phew!)
Matt, who apparently works well under pressure (and sleep deprivation), worked more than 36 hours straight getting everything installed just right. Such a perfectionist.
The piece includes three total structures: one 10-foot diameter cluster of acrylic shapes and two identical 8-feet tall by 10-feet wide structures made of acrylic shapes on an aluminum frame. All three pieces hang in the newly remodeled hospital’s lobby.
Check out the final result:
Here are the pallets we just shipped off to San Antonio for the children's hospital mobile. Now we're just praying everything arrives in one piece... The installation is next week, so stay tuned!
