Here are renderings of another fun project in our queue. It’s another collaboration with the very talented artist Daniel Goldstein. This wall-mounted mural-mobile will hang in a corporate office building in Jacksonville, Florida. Stay tuned for pictures of the process!
(We’ll be creating a hanging piece for the space, too! We’ll share those renderings when they’re ready.)
Hi! We’re back already! We’re keeping busy with some very fun and interesting projects.
For this one, we’re working with a commercial HVAC manufacturer to suspended an “exploded” HVAC unit from the ceiling of their new global corporate headquarters. The company sent us an actual unit that Matt and Ben have dismantled and re-engineered to hang just so. It’s the ultimate project (and challenge!) for these tinkerers extraordinaire.
We’re planning to install next month, so check back for updates!
Hello friends! The Ekko Mobiles Fan Club (aka Matt’s mom) has expressed concern over this blog’s radio silence. So here’s a quick-ish update with a handful of highlights from the past year. (Don’t worry, Matt’s mom—we’ve been busy around here!)
Last February, we posted renderings to the umbrella ceiling sculpture for a local healthcare clinic. Here’s the finished piece, installed March 2023.
In April, Matt contemplated mobile making from a sailboat in the Bahamas.
In May, we completed this ceiling sculpture for a Washington D.C. office building. The piece, made from fabric stretched over metal frames, hangs 10 feet tall by 8 feet wide.
Matt and Ben traveled to Orlando to install this series of mobiles for a pediatric health clinic near Disney World. The clinic had Finding Nemo licensing, so the mobile incorporates a school of fish, plus an adroable orange Nemo and Marlin. (After this installation, the guys spent an epic day hitting three of the four Disney World parks. Their wives and kids were only moderately jealous.)
Here’s a ceiling sculpture we made for the lobby of a bank in Florida. The piece hangs 8 feet wide by 8 feet tall and was made of powder-coated aluminum tubes.
Here’s Matt, simultaneous admiring the Matterhorn and contemplating mobile making. (And trying to figure out how to get some projects in Switzerland.)
In November, Matt and Ben installed this 40-foot-long ribbon-inspired ceiling sculpture in the private gaming room of the Green Valley Ranch Casino in Las Vegas. (We love the before and after shots!)
Matt and Ben also traveled to Texas in November for this installation. It included 27 sets of individual mobiles spanning the main lobby of Lubbock’s HOPE Tower Hospital.
It was a busy year end! In December, Matt and Ben installed this ceiling sculpture in the entryway lobby of Texas Children’s Hospital in Austin. It includes 75 individual acrylic resin forms.
Texas Children’s was featured on Austin’s local news—with the hospital CEO standing right in front of thew newly installed sculpture! Watch news story
And the art consultant we worked with made a fun Instagram post with a timelapse video of the installation. Watch Instagram video
Here’s Matt contemplating mobile making from Oregon’s Deschutes River region. (And, for good measure, a picture of the entire crew at the start of their quick winter break backpacking trip.)
2024 got off to a running start with an installation at the Traeger Grills headquarters in Salt Lake City. This mobile hangs from an indoor/outdoor seating area. It hangs 20 feet wide by 10 feet tall and is made from translucent acrylic.( Don’t ask how long it took Matt and Ben to get feeling back in their numb fingers after this very cold installation!)
If you’ve made it this far, we’re thoroughly impressed! We’ve got some exciting stuff in the queue this year, so we’ll be sure to check in sooner than later… (We resolve to do better!)
Here’s the mobile we made for the private residence in Brazil, hanging in our shop. It’s all crated up and en route to Los Angeles, where it will then join the the owner’s other belongings for its journey to Brazil. It may be awhile before we see pictures of this hanging in its final home, but we sure can’t wait to see them!
Here are renderings of a ceiling sculpture we’re making for a healthcare clinic right here in Portland. The client requested umbrella shapes with translucent acrylic panels to hang in the two-story stairwell.
Here’s a mobile we’re making for a private residence in Brazil. The client ordered a small custom mobile from us nearly 10 years ago, and wanted something special for the new home has family is building. The design is based on the mobile we made for the Ride Connection Mobile we made in 2014. Stay tuned for updates!
Check out this video showing our series of Prefab #3 mobiles in the Marshfield Clinic’s new connector corridor!
Someday we’ll get a nice backdrop so we can take lovely pictures of things in our shop space. Meanwhile, here’s the best we can seem to do. This mobile is for a Phoenix area office building. The client requested a Prefab #1 mobile with koi shapes interspersed. Here’s the end result!
It’s been a minute since we’ve mentioned the project we were working on for a healthcare campus in Wisconsin! We made a series of 71 Prefab #3 Mobiles to be interspersed along the ceiling of a new 650 connection corridor between two healthcare buildings.
The clients needed to install the mobile themselves, so we sent the mobiles, along with a detailed video and templates. They installed it this weekend, and it looks great! The client says they make the space look more “friendly and interesting.”
Here’s Matt’s 12 year old at the shop, helping with a a small home improvement project. (Not pictured: Matt, secretly hoping the kid will also want to be a mobile maker someday.)
