SMU Peruna Ceiling Sculpture

Here’s a project we’re creating for Southern Methodist University’s athletics department. We’ll string together 2,106 small powder-coated SMU shetland pony mascot shapes to form one large Peruna, SMU’s official mascot. The entire Peruna will hang 14 feet wide by 7 feet tall. Matt and Ben will head to Dallas this summer to complete the installation. Stay tuned for updates!

Whitney M. Young, Jr. Library Installation

Here’s a fun project we just completed in collaboration with Chicago artist Pugs Atomz. Pugz created the imagery, and we worked together to design the overall structure. The first picture below shows the completed sculpture in our shop. The bottom picture shows it, post-installation, in it’s final home, the atrium of Chicago’s Whitney M. Young, Jr. Library. It was such an honor to work with Pugs on this project!

HVAC Ceiling Sculpture Installation

Matt and Ben just returned from Tulsa to install this “exploded” HVAC unit in a new client services building at the AAON global headquarters. We took one of the company’s actual dismantled industrial HVAC systems and re-engineered it to hang with all its innards on display. A ton of behind-the-scenes designing, engineering, and measuring (so much measuring!) went into this one, but it paid off! The installation went smoothly and everybody was happy with the final product.

Atrium Bird Mobile

We just got these images from a client! We created this hanging mobile for a newly completed annex at St. Michaels University School in Victoria, Canada. The mobile hangs 16 feet tall by 10 feet in diameter, and we love how it fits in the light, airy atrium!

Jacksonville Wall Mural-Mobile

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.)

HVAC Ceiling Sculpture Rendering

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!

Long Time, No Chat!

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!)