Modern Address Plaques Taken to a Whole New Level

Man oh man was I stoked to work on this one. First of all, I got to work with these custom powder coated house numbers from Dwell.

Then, I get to see my work mounted ....

ON THIS HOUSE. Whaaaa????

 I mean seriously, right? That's me on the far left - my work on this ridiculously amazing CA house - hopefully forever and ever and ever ever after.

Custom Blues

Even though it's not technically monochromatic ...

the 2 blended deep colors come together so smoothly.

New favorite color combo.

Lots of Modern House Numbers Installed

I love when I get pictures of the plaques installed. I am always surprised at the wide variety of home styles too. 

Total door crush and love the color combination!

Hundreds and Hundreds of Modern Address Plaques

Digging myself out and back to reality. Just finished up a big apartment complex address job. Super rad and pumped to take it on but I'm not gonna lie, it definitely took over my life for a few months. When you come home one day to see this:

5 boxes packed with house numbers, you know it's time to get busy. The job consisted of lots of single address plaques plus directionals. My kitchen turned into a production line. 

And then the directional plaques were on grey plexiglas, which really made the cool ribbon style modern house numbers pop.

 Very clean lines, giving the plaques a nod to mid century but really just keepin' it clean and modern.

All shipped off to California ... not to catch up on everything else!

Custom House Numbers Gone Good

I love custom pieces. Your ideas, new numbers, new shapes, new ideas make for some of the best moments.

Black on white - super striking. Super bold.

 This custom order used some of my most favorite numbers. Modern, yet tricky.

 This piece, really stretched my mind and my ability. Had to really think and work to make it happen - and wow - it really worked. One of my absolute favorite plaques I have ever built.

It's the size of a toddler, and has the presence of a bull at the running of the bulls. It really is amazing -- and owns everything!!

A batch of address plaques

Just a few of my favorite June plaques. I used to think that every plaque should be transparent - but the more I see the opaque colors the more I like. And then, when they get tricked out with a custom request, I like them even more. 

When I started making these plaques, in my mind it was always about modern or mid-century homes. I love when I get pictures of the plaques on every type/style of house - and they totally work. Just goes to show, gotta be open minded.

Yellow ... It's the New Everything

Without even realizing it, I have become addicted to yellow, and in particular, this color of yellow plexiglas. Every piece of art made, my immediate gut reaction,  "Let's assemble it on yellow." 

 

 And then the ultimate happened -- someone ordered a plaque -- on opaque YELLOW plexiglas.

It looks unbelievable -- and their house, will be noticed. In love.

Dark Green Address ... Of Course

Our first client bold enough to go opaque green ---

Clearly a great choice. I love it and now want to make any and EVERYthing with this color.

Go Big, always.

We Like 'Em Fat

The bigger the better when it comes to vertical house numbers.

Add a few inches to the width and, well, it gets all hot and sexy. Obviously ....

You Want More Than One?

We can do that.

Our DIY factory can make one or a hundred.

Address plaques for homes or apartments or condominiums. We got that.

We Love our Customers

One of our favorite things is getting picture of our plaques once they are installed.  It makes our hearts burst with pride.  Check out the latest batch below.

 

 

It's always interesting to see the variety of home styles. The plaques are truly chameleon-like, fitting in perfectly, from mid century to traditional and everything in-between.

Factory Girls

Warhol factory girls making blue floating pillows (we wish)?

Machining numbers?

No not exactly ...

These are just parts of the process of plaque making. Recently, we got our biggest order to date, and had to crank out massive amounts of plaques at once. Needless to say, we had no problem tying our hair up in do-rags and getting on the factory line.

Back In Black

We may have let SXSW get the best of us and fall a bit behind (it's inevitable when you live in Austin, seriously), but we're back on schedule with a fresh batch of all black plaques ready to ship.

Now we gotta get busy on our collage art. Lots to do before WEST happens in April. We have some great new pieces brewing ....

Push it Good

We get all types of custom requests. While we totally want them all to work out and love all the outside of the box challanges, sometimes people are just too wild and crazy with their ideas and we just can't make them happen. However -- this client was persistent in their ideas and we're glad we could make it happen because it turned out awesome, and all kinds of new mid century modern perfection. We owe a big thanks to them for pushing us to make this atomic ranch plaque. Oval --- why yes we can.

Big Fat and Frosty

Custom piece. We like the wide vertical. It's going to look great on their house.

The Perfect House Number

Couldn't stop thinking of this band the whole time I was working on this plaque. I know I'd live at 808.

Used to jam 808 State back in the day .....

To Quote Ice Cube ...

"Today was a good day."

It was so nice working on plaques today.

For a change, there was a cool breeze blowing (if you live in Texas you know what I mean), no mosquitoes making me crazy .... and distant sounds of thunder. I don't really get excited about thunder anymore, because usually thunder never brings the rain in Austin these days. But then, there were sprinkles.

Followed by a mass of dark clouds ...

 

that opened up and let it rip like we haven't seen in a long time.

I know the whole city is in a better mood today. 

"I got to say, it was a good day."

Oh the places our address plaques go...

We have clients as psyched as us about our plaques...and send us pictures to prove it!

 Love it on a mail box.

 The custom numbers/letters are hawt.

We love it when people aren't afraid of color and we can add that sparkle.