A pleasant surprise appeared in our mailbox this week: a copy of California Modern Magazine, with an entire cover story devoted to modern mobiles. The article highlights a wide range of mobile artists (including Ekko Mobiles!), and it's an honor to be included with such a talented group.
Here's a little sneak peek.
Next up in our queue: This project.
It will be a 25-foot-long by 4-foot-wide by 6-foot-tall ceiling sculpture for the fine-arts building of a high school in Sand Springs, Oklahoma. The piece will consist of 44 various-sized aluminum tubes. Our next step? Acquire said tubes. Stay tuned!
Matt joined his daughter at preschool yesterday for an art lesson on mobile making. Turns out he's got some preschool-teaching potential. (And his daughter has some mobile-making potential.)
Last July we collaborated with local glass mobile artist Leah Pellegrini to create mobiles for the Hong Kong International School. We just received these photos of our mobiles in their awesome library. And it kinda makes us want to enroll our kids. Or ourselves…
(Apologies for the photo overload. They’re all so great, we just couldn’t nail down one favorite.)
Remember those not-kinetic pieces we mentioned last month (February 23)? This little video shows a model we created of the floor sculpture.
We'll start fabrication in the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned for updates!
Texas Architect Magazine featured Austin's Starr Building in its March/April issue. There's a great story about the building's renovation. (Be sure to check out the photos of our mobile on pages 55 and 56!)
Architecture photographer Thomas McConnell recently added photos to his website of the Starr Building, where we installed a mobile last fall (November 10).
Scroll through the images to see the beautiful photographs, beautiful building, and a beautiful view of our mobile!
We've been in brainstorming mode. One impending project is for the lobby of a high-rise condominium in New Jersey. And because of space constraints, we needed to design two very dynamic pieces...that don't actually move. So we've tapped into our creative thinking and problem solving skills to develop concepts for pieces that feel kinetic without actually being kinetic.
We'll be creating one hanging sculpture and one stationary floor sculpture. Here's what we've come up with:
How are we spending our time these days? A little of this, a little of that.
And a LOT of this:
Design Within Reach will be nicely restocked soon.
