Science Museum Mobile Progress

We're making good progress on the large custom mobile for the Science Museum of Virginia. The mobile's shapes will be colorful frosted translucent acrylic (in the color scheme pictured here).

We don't want the lovely shapes to get damaged during the building process, so we had a copy of each shape created from scrap acrylic that we're using to ensure the mobile is built and balanced properly. Once Matt is onsite to install the mobile, he'll attach the pristine colorful shapes and fine-tune the balancing.

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Rendering for Seattle Apartment Building

Here's another project in our queue:

It's a large custom mobile for a high-end apartment building in Seattle. The entire piece includes a series of smaller mobiles that, together, will span about 26 feet long by 5 feet wide. The shapes will be perforated translucent plastic, which will add a canopy of color overhead while maintaining a lightness in the space. As always, stay tuned to see progress pictures!

Ceiling Sculpture Installation

If you were to watch Matt and Ben install a mobile or ceiling sculpture, you might get kinda bored. It's usually several hours of very tedious work.

But in this time lapse video, you can watch 13 hours of work installing a ceiling sculpture in just 25 seconds!

As you can see, there's a whole lot of up and down to hang all those strands properly. Also, pay attention to how the lighting and shadows change as the day progresses. So cool.

Enjoy!

Large Custom Mobile for the Science Museum of Virginia

We've got several really fun projects in the hopper right now, and here's one of them:

This large custom mobile will hang in a new early childhood area of the Science Museum of Virginia. The mobile will feature bright colors to liven the space, and the shapes will be made of a satin translucent acrylic to match a climbing wall in the area. Matt and Ben just might have to bring their families along on this installation!

Ceiling Sculpture Pictures

We're loving these images Ben captured from underneath the ceiling sculpture installation at Niagara Falls last week!

Niagara Falls Medical Center Ceiling Sculpture

Matt and Ben are headed home from New York today, where they finished installing this ceiling sculpture for the Niagara Falls Medical Center. The piece required a lot of on-site assembly, so they put in a long day's work. But they enjoyed seeing how the how much the lighting affected the colored reflections on the wall from day to night.

Matt snapped these pictures on his phone—and you can see Ben trying to capture some non-iPhone pictures in the second image below. We'll get those posted here soon!

Kind Words

You know, we try not to let our self esteem get too wrapped up in our work. But it sure made our day to receive nearly identical e-mails about totally different projects within hours of each other:

"Outstanding conceptual work."

"These are outstanding concepts. Great work!"

We're pretty darn excited about the projects we're lining up right now—stay tuned for details!

Ceiling Sculpture Progress

We've made major headway on the ceiling sculpture we're creating for a new medical center in Niagara Falls, New York. Are those shapes just beautiful?

New Neighbor

A busy little woodpecker has been hard at work on the tree next to our shop!