We’ve squeezed a custom mobile for a private residence into our production schedule. Here’s the cardboard model we threw together to figure out sizing and balancing points. Cardboard on wood paneling is quite the combo, no?
Busy Bees
If you have 1 minute, 39 seconds to spare, check out this stop-motion video of the Rockingham dry run installation. To be honest, the speed and efficiency at which Matt and Ben are working isn’t all that exaggerated.
Rockingham Dry Run
We’re in the depths of the production process on the mobile for Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Virginia. We just did a trial run in our shop. As you might notice in the photos, we built a wooden frame to hang them from so we wouldn’t have to mess with creating a bajillion mounting points from our shop ceiling.
The entire piece doesn’t fit in our shop, but the half that does gave us a good idea of what we’ll be up against at the actual installation.
Real Simple
Wouldn't you know it? In its April issue, Real Simple happens to call mobiles a "trend worth trying." We agree. Be sure to check out page 44 to see a lovely Red Circles Mobile by Ekko Mobiles!
Newsworthy, Part 2
Check out this great article The Daily Journal Commerce of Oregon wrote about us!
Moving On
As much fun as we had with that Louisiana project, it’s time to shift focus. Now we’re working on the mobile we first conceptualized last summer (See August 3, 2009) for a hospital in Virginia.
We put our industrial designer’s graphic design skills to the test by having him come up with various color schemes:
And the client chose the winning color combo:
We’ll spend the next month finalizing the project for an early April install. Stay tuned for updates!
Newsworthy
On their flight home from Louisiana, mobile installers Matt and Ben caught a glimpse of the image below in the local newspaper of the fellow sitting next to them. (Said fellow was kind enough to share said newspaper.)
Rapides Regional Medical Center Mobile
We just returned from Alexandria, Louisiana, where we installed this mobile in the women & children’s hospital of the Rapides Regional Medical Center.
Here are a few of our favorite images of the installation process:
Olympic Rings
The Winter Olympics are in full swing, but we’re a bit pre-occupied with some olympic-sized rings of our own. These massive (relatively speaking) rings were bent by hand, which may not sound like a big deal. But let’s just say it required the brilliance and brute strength of both our in-house mechanical engineer ANDindustrial designer. Phew. Gold medals for everyone!
Eventually, these rings will be incorporated into the colorful–and massive (not relatively speaking this time)–mobile pictured among the desk clutter (and mentioned in our blog on January 7).
White Mobile at Home
Here's a photo we just received of the White Mobile we mentioned back on December 17. Looks grand above that grand piano, eh?
