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

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.

I came across this mobile, inspired by Moonrise Kingdom, by LA-based artist Kim Baise. I love the simplicity of it, and how inspired it is. It got me looking for some more mobile-making inspiration. Above, an origami mobile from Tiny Happy Some guidance for creating balance without symmetry in mobiles, from Perpetual Mobiles. Artist Marco Mahler shares his advice for making mobiles, exploring the intricacies of balance. Artists Carl and Evelina Kleiner create food-based kinetic sculptures…

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…

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In the second volume of a definitive biography, the art critic Jed Perl recalls how the innovative artist revolutionized sculpture.

Here are some ideas for making your very own mobile. I’m currently working on a wooden one but following the principles of the abstract mobile in terms of construction. I want it to look simi…

These mobiles are made using stainless steel wire and cable, hand blown glass and glass sourced from all over the world and various gemstones and crystals. Much of the glass is hand painted and when touched or placed in a breeze, all of these mobiles move and then return to their original position.

Copper Cascade Mobile Beautiful brushed copper takes this classic mobile to the next level. Hangs 33" tall by 19" wide. Made of laser-cut brushed copper shapes, stainless-steel jump rings, and black braided nylon hanging string. No assembly required. Packaged in custom Ekko Workshop kraft-box packaging. Made in Portlan

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.