Charities Housing Mobile

Matt spent the day in San Jose, where he installed this mobile in a newly constructed affordable-housing development:

It may have been the smoothest installation ever in Ekko history, giving poor Matt a few hours to squander in the sunshine before catching his return flight to drizzle.

(Our) Tallest Mobile Ever

Here are sketches of an exciting project in our queue. Although the project isn't due for a few months, it's already occupying a sizable chunk of our mental real estate. It will be our tallest project to date (40 feet tall!), and one of the many complexities will involve ensuring that its hundreds of polished stainless-steel shapes stay polished throughout the process...

The final piece will be installed in a hospital in Arkansas, where it will hang in the cafeteria's multi-story atrium area. As pictured in the second rendering, visitors will be able to view the mobile from higher floors of the hospital.

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Honda Mobiles

And here are images of the project we did for Leith Honda Dealership in Raleigh, North Carolina. In all, we created nine mobiles that will hang in their showroom

The large mobiles hang 6 feet tall by 3 feet wide, and the smaller mobiles hang 3 feet tall by 3 feet wide. The shapes are made of a lightweight but durable plastic product that were digitally printed with color and then routed into shapes. Pictured is one of the large version, plus a closeup and rarely seen view from above.

Mobile Shapes

Here are pictures of Ben and Matt prepping parts for a mobile we're making for a Honda dealership in Raleigh, North Carolina.

To be continued...

Spring Cleaning, Continued

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.

Spring Cleaning

We interrupt this regularly scheduled mobile making for a few shop improvements.

First up, this ambitious undertaking: painting the shop's 20-foot walls.

McGarrah Jessee Building Mobile

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!