Travis Scott Airforce 1 Build When asked to build an oversized replica of the Travis Scott Nike Airforce One shoe for a large music festival that is in a week, most people’s thoughts would be “A week? Not possible!” I would be lying if I said that thought didn’t cross my mind for a split […]
Pop-Up Bar Design Pop-up events have become popular in the last few years. You might ask what is a pop-up event? Well, a pop-up event is a unique event that is open to the public and is normally hosted temporarily in retail spaces. There are also pop-up bars as well as pop-up shops. Typically, a pop-up […]
Creating the Dundie Award for “The Office” A lot of us have favorite TV shows. When those shows have been around for many seasons, fans can usually spout off numerous iconic moments from each episode/season. I have no doubt that fans of the show The Office have plenty of those iconic moments that they […]
Smash Design recently had the privilege to take on a massive scenic construction project for Gabriel Iglesias’s Netflix Comedy special. The scope of the project consisted of us custom fabricating and installing ALL the scenic elements in 4 weeks. The range of different scenic elements that each required different methods of fabrication was extremely high. The […]
Coca-Cola commissioned us to build a brand experience at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. The build was composed of two installations. We built a meet and greet booth for the professional cowboys to sign autographs. Coke also had us build an enormous 14-foot horseshoe that had a floating acrylic sign inside of it. The […]
Everyone wants their business to be known, right? You want it to be out there for everyone to see and talk about. Okay, obviously I’m not referring to your personal business. I’m referring to your company, your team and especially your brand. Businesses can make huge statements for themselves when they have something that makes […]
Wanna get noticed, then try guerrilla marketing art… An insurance company in Milan, Italy decided to go big and create a something truly remarkable. Imagine walking down the streets of New York and seeing a life-size submarine had busted up through the streets. You couldn’t get your phone out of your pocket fast enough to […]
Kids have a tendency to run and play in the most inconvenient of places, causing unfavorable glimpses and snobby glares from on-lookers. Shopping malls, doctors’ offices, and restaurants all become spaceships, jungles, or underwater adventures for children. The reality is, kids are told, “Don’t touch this,” or “Stay away from that” in efforts to conform […]
At any given point in time, there are plenty of three-dimensional prints manufactured at Smash Design. As previous blog posts mention, Smash can design anything and everything, whether 2D or 3D. For that reason, we found the following story quite interesting: Recently, a grad student made headlines with his version of a typical, everyday arm cast. Jake Evill, designed a […]
Throughout the many years, the traditional children’s ministry has evolved in teaching method and design. One Smash Design worker remembers her time in church as a young child, just 17 years ago, “My parents use to have to drag me to church. My friends and I would rather run wild in the hallways than sit […]