The shop renovations are coming along nicely. All this painting (and contorting to reach the ceiling) has given Matt a deep backache and an even deeper appreciation for Michelangelo's work on the Sistine Chapel.
Next up, reorganizing and spring cleaning. Then we'll return, refreshed and reinvigorated, to our queue of very fun projects.
We interrupt this regularly scheduled mobile making for a few shop improvements.
First up, this ambitious undertaking: painting the shop's 20-foot walls.
If you've been waiting around for a Tabletop Mobile, we just sent off another batch to Design Within Reach. Grab one sooner than later!
And for your viewing pleasure, photos of the mobile we made for the McGarrah Jessee Building in Austin.
We completed this project ages ago, but we just now got our hands on these professional images. Happy day!
Go check out our gallery! We just updated it with seven new pieces. (And we're using the term "new" very loosely. Some pieces were completed nearly two years ago...but they're still new to the gallery!)
Newly added pieces include:
Alignment
Columbus Interactive
Color Play
Inharmonic Spectra
Intercession
Leaf Lines 2.0
Polychromatic Pendants
Right now, we're working on a variation of SemiSwing for an affordable housing facility in San Jose. We gave the client the choice of several color schemes that would coordinate the facility's decor and wall art, and here was their final verdict. Off to the powder coater it goes!
Here are more sneak peeks at the new line of mobiles we're creating. You'll be glad to know these prototypes are closer to the final product than the original cardboard cutouts.
Since these pieces won't be hand bent, it's taken some serious revising and fine-tuning to ensure our patterns are just right. If anything's off by even a millimeter, the balance gets thrown out of whack. But we think, after a few iterations, we've finally nailed it. On this design, at least...
We came across this lovely Venn diagram yesterday on the blog, Indexed. It's nice validation for the engineer-turned-artist guy around here.
See this image below? Now close your eyes and imagine a mobile instead of a big white box labeled "insert Mobile Here." That's what we've been doing lately. Stay tuned for our final design concepts.
Ok, so this cardboard cutout probably isn't going to get anybody overly excited. But we're excited about it: It's a sneak preview into a little project that's well in the works around here. Before long, Ekko Workshop is launching a new line of mobiles, and this was one of our prototypes. Stay tuned for details!
