Posts Tagged "award"

Stephen Hawking 70th Birthday Exhibit — The Science Museum, London

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

BJ's blog post about: Our Blown Glass Saturn sculpture in the London Science Museum's exhibit of Stephen Hawking's Archives and Curiosities

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The Bummer of Being a Commissioned Artist

Saturday, February 12th, 2011
Barrios Awards Sketch and Finish

In the previous blog post I wrote about the custom commission I was designing and creating for a company - their 30-year service award, to be given to two of their employees.

A risk involved with creating custom pieces is that the client may get the piece and decide that they just don't like it. When you sell a work in a gallery, the new owner sees it

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Blown Glass Rocket Ship Awards

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

While we were at the National Space Symposium, a next door exhibitor asked if we could put together some small awards for students. The catch was he didn't have much time. I came back to the studio and looked around for something that I had already in stock that would do well as awards, but I only had two or three of each appropriate thingie, and he needed 5

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The USGIF Lifetime Achievement Award

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

United States Geospatial Intelligence Lifetime Achievement Award - Bird's EyeThis is the Lifetime Achievement Award that was awarded to Evan Hineman at the latest Geospatial Intelligence Conference in Nashville last week.

It stands about 16 inches tall. The Earth and the base are both molded glass that has

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More USGIF Awards

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

BJ says that the straight on shot doesn't show enough of the detail, so I've added this one as well. You can see the cloud patterns on the earths better, and also the shape of the cradles themselves.

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USGIF Glass Achievement Awards

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Aren't these so cute?? These are the Achievement awards being given out at this year's Geospatial Intelligence Symposium in Nashville. We make five of these beauties for them each year. They represent a type of cradle or hand holding an Earth that floats above the piece.

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