Hokusai Exhibit

Last weekend we went to Washington DC to see the exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum. The exhibit was beautiful, and of course the Smithsonian is always worth the trip. And it gave us an excuse to go up and finally see where Alessa and Dean are living. It's a very spacious house in a farming area near a small town, reminds me some of Uncle Paul's place in Michigan. Hopefully we'll be able to get the Tomasi's up to DC later inthe summer, but there are a lot of logistical hurdles for that. We've volunteered our timeshare points for the location in Alexandria, but that's just the start of it.

And of course, you can't take photos in the exhibit, so you'll just have to take my word for it: it was great!

Ecolab Project

This is the big project I'd been working on from around January through the middle of May (though about two thirds of that was planning, design, and client buy-in). It's a reworking of their existing Octanorm structure. We used swoosh shapes and increasing height toward the middle to help draw the eye to the main corporate ID signage, and lights with colored frosted plexiglass and angles to distract from the grid like structure of the extrusions.

It was a lot of work, but It's finally done, barring some repairs on the returned freight.

Lesson learned - for a project this size, I have to go on site with it. No questions. Also, set up a 'feature drop' time frame, so if a client stalls the production for too long, they get less booth options.

Still, I'm glad it went so well, and I think it turned out spectacularly.