The Good: The Rockingham mobile made it safely to Harrisonburg. So did Matt and Ben.
The Bad: The installation proved trickier than anticipated. Matt and Ben had to install mounting points above the drop-grid ceiling. As pictured below, they spent a lot of time in the underbelly (or rather upperbelly?) of the hospital. In the end, the install required working 40 nonstop hours. 40 hours! (It's tiring just thinking about that.)
The Beautiful: The mobile. We're so happy with it!
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?
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.
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.
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!
Check out this great article The Daily Journal Commerce of Oregon wrote about us!
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!
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.)
