Mobiles art

Explaining the basics about balance when building an art mobile / hanging kinetic sculpture - With illustrations / images - Contact me if you need more help

Here’s a great idea for a DIY art project you can make, inspired by the art of Mark Hearld. Hearld is a British artist whose gorgeous prints, illustrations, and ceramics depict British fauna and flora dancing with color and movement. His installation at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park is a huge flock of painted wood birds suspended over visitors— something I dreamed of hanging in my house. Alas, I’ll have to (happily) make do with this DIY bird mobile I concocted instead.

Mobiles have crept back into the latest crop of design products and trends. Read on to see our edit of the coolest hanging mobiles out right now.

How to Create a Calder'esque Mobile: The sculptor Alexander Calder said "To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry." Here are some instructions to make your own small version of this spatial poetry. Be…

The team behind Fort Makers don’t refer to themselves as a design studio but rather an “artist collective,” and there’s a marked difference: They make functional objects, but instead of producing a stream of products with a unified aesthetic, they each work individually under the studio umbrella, experimenting with whatever interests them at any given time. In a way, it’s that same sense of structureless structure that first attracted Noah Spencer to the idea of making mobiles: You can hang…

Dave Smart Floating Stone Mobiles Dave Smart is a local acupuncturist and artist. He explores the limits of balance w...

Making Mobiles: Create beautiful Polish pajaki from natural materials: Merska, Karolina: 9781911641636: Books - Amazon.ca

An artist shows us how to make a mobile in 5 steps inspired by the famous sculptor, Alexander Calder.

Making Mobiles: Create beautiful Polish pajaki from natural materials: Merska, Karolina: 9781911641636: Books - Amazon.ca