Project Archive · Frankie Next

Signs and Lettering

– This Oregon-shaped event sign is inspired by the distinctive entrance signs found at our national parks.

– On order for a themed dance event: a sign with inviting, luscious lighting and lots of vintage character.

– A hand-lettered Lucy rendered in plywood and paint.

Twelve-foot wide arch painted with doves and banners around a heart.

– Three super lightweight twelve-foot-wide hanging backdrops with repositionable letters.

– An arms-width keepsake painted to be written on with metallic markers.

– I wanted to make a sign that looked like a single slab of plywood, but was internally lit. This lightweight, hollow-core design is meant for hanging against a window.

– Covering the process of translating an existing piece of artwork into a multilayered laser engraving.

– A small batch of lasered and painted plywood signs to deter spammy knockers and doorbell ringers.

– “Keep the Saturn in Saturnalia”

– Painted signage at The Zipper to help folks find the bathroom and the way out. Also, an admonition to keep drinks within their legal perimeter.

– A pair of matching, low-profile signs for Guerrilla Development and Brett Schulz Architect.

– Hand-lettered panes on the front and back with beautiful, even, LED illumination.

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– Ornate Lettering on Rustic Sign

– Building the Sign Panel The Rock Drawing the Letters

– Bones in ivory on a narsty old board.

Fabrication

1946 Chevy – Black primer, Corvette Fuel Injection, 65k miles.
400 Bottles of Beer Wall – Sixty-four square feet of rack with precision notches for hanging bottles by the neck.
6:1 Rigging on Extra Large Fan – A six-foot aluminum fan suspended via a six-to-one pulley arrangement.
Aluminum Rocket – A five-foot rocket with hand-formed aluminum skin and animated lights.
Boxwood Hedges with Simple Planters – Two four-foot faux-foliage hedges with plywood “planters”.
Chrome Bar – A chrome bar in the 50’s style with checkerboard pattern and LED lights.
Collapsible Fairy Forest Partitions – Three foldable partitions with locally-sourced organic tree branches and two hundred seventy feet of fairy wire.
Colorful Mosaic Flats with Weathered Cedar Planks – Design, Construction, and Finishing Four 4′×8′ Reusable Background Flats
Daybed Swings – Simple, Sturdy, Daybed-Inspired Swings made for the Zipper
Eyeball Kid – Everybody wants to see the Eyeball Kid
Federation Workbee – n 1/350 scale. Resin body, photoetch manipulator arm, decals. and pain
Horse and Shoe Engravings – 22″ Clydesdale Engraved on Plywood and a 24 Second Photoshop Thing
Horse and Shoes in Steel – Clydesdales in ¼” Steel Plate, Rusted and Weathered.
Karaoke Taxi – Belt one out behind the wheel of this custom prop with realistic lights and detailed dash.
Landmark Table Arbors – Landmarks and architecture set the scene in travel-themed arbors with localized finishes and bracket designs.
Laureled 45 – >Made of 2″ EPS Insulation foam. Leaves
Mad Hatter’s Hat, Times Three
Magnetic Delta Sign – Wrapped in aluminum and steel-clad on both sides. Metal pole mount sleeve and embedded fasteners for wall-hanging. Pinstriped with good ol‘ one-shot.
Moon Gate – A circular arbor for ceremonies and events with espresso finish.
National Park Sign – Building the Sign Panel The Rock Drawing the Letters
Octagonal Backyard Table – Ten feet wide. Eight sides. Four kid jumpseats. Two posts and a mini trellis.
Olympic Torch – A seven-foot tall prop with weathered metal and marble effects as well as a microcontroller-fueled flame effect.
Original Enterprise
Pop Out Cake – I refit and refrosted a too-tired two-tiered two-sided pop-up party prop.
Signable 44” Nike Air Max – An arms-width keepsake painted to be written on with metallic markers.
Simple Gothic Windows – On order were gothic window props, five at three by five feet.
SkeeBall Redux – Nine more balls for a tired carnival game.
Storage for Highly Varied Coffee Cup Collection
Zigzag Rope Suspended Pendleton Blanket Frames – Sometimes projects change in arbitrary ways. This isn’t one of those projects.

Software

Writing

Letters from Underground – A work of nonlinear, speculative, epistolary, dystopian fiction in 56 parts.
On the Singularity