Company Updates
GANA selects liquidoranges' Original Art Glass for NeoCon 2012
051712 10:27 EST
GANA (Glass Association of North America) has selected liquidoranges' 120511sq original #artglass for their Decorative Glass Display at NeoCon in Chicago. We are thrilled to be included. This original art glass piece will be on display for the duration of Neocon 2012 as part of GANA's promotion of the Decorative Glass Division. GANA will be in booth 7-3100c.
liquidoranges working with Gordon Huether Studio
051512 14:47 EST
Gordon Huether Studio has hired liquidoranges STUDIO to produce art glass pieces for a project of theirs in California. Additionally, we are preparing samples for a memorial project they are doing in Napa, CA. More on this soon!
Glass Association of North America
042512 16:44 EST
Liquidoranges is a member of GANA (Glass Association of North America). Both members and non-members, researchers, architects, designers, etc., can find us on the GANA site in two locations.
Member Site
Decorative Division
Member Site
Decorative Division
We're moving to Urethanes
040312 10:44 EST
liquidoranges is now using urethane adhesives exclusively for all our art glass, unless specifications demand otherwise. Urethanes are superior over PVB's for a number of reasons. Urethanes won't yellow over time like PVB's, they are inert and less affected by moisture, and they are more compatible with our art interlayer, resulting in a superior art glass of the highest clarity. We are now using KrystalFlex PE399 which offers identical UV-A/UV-B filtration to the Safelex UV PVB (complete filtration up through 380 nanometers)
Public Art for Durham, NC
031212 17:03 EST
We're right in the middle of production on two bus shelters, each designed by winning artists Chris Vespermann and David Wilson, both from North Carolina.
David Wilson, Artist, captures historic neighborhoods in a map of images.
David Wilson, Artist, captures historic neighborhoods in a map of images.
ART GLASS CLOCK FACE for Saudi Arabia
030212 15:20 EST
The clock face for Electric Time Company, Inc., made for a crown prince in Saudi Arabia is finished. Electric Time asked liquidoranges to produce detailed artwork in glass for the dial, modeled after the Mecca Clock Tower. Glass dial is 53"ø (flat) and made from tempered PPG Starphire glass layers, laminated to produce a 3/8" thick dial designed to fit within the metal bezel manufactured by Electric Time. The hour indicators and metal rings were applied to the surface of the glass by Electric Time, using 3M VHB adhesive tape. Saflex UV PVB was used as a UV-A/UV-B filtration to preserve the artwork.
Working with Seyed Alavi - Artist
020912 11:12 EST
For well over a year, we've been working with Seyed Alavi, the Oakland California based artist, working on his commissioned art glass ceiling for the Harborview Landing Medical Center in Seattle, WA. This month, we travel to Seattle to meet with Seyed and complete the final measurements required for fabrication.
Seyed Alavi - Artist
Seyed Alavi - Artist
Exploring New Vendor Relationships
122911 13:12 EST
We're always looking to improve both our products and our pricing. Last week we signed an agreement with one of North America's largest laminated glass manufacturers to explore a business relationship. We won't mention their name for a while, as we are careful to see whether their capabilities match our needs. This can only be determined over time through testing and review. We are off to a good start with them, and things look promising, so stay tuned.
Reese Schroeder
President
Reese Schroeder
President
An Art Form That Works For A Living
121411 08:50 EST
It is the pursuit of New Media Art in architectural glass, produced through exciting technologies, yet referential in a non-objectivism approach as beautiful spectral transformations of light. I’d like to share my thoughts:
With light as the fundamental defining factor in all visual art, the glass work I have successfully produced is both highly advanced, and culturally relevant. Combining computer media artworks created through the use of advanced graphical software and hardware with environmentally responsible materials and processes, I have created an architectural art glass of colors so pure (up to a theoretical 36 Billion potential, far exceeding the human eye’s 10 Million color perception) that the combining with sunlight produces spatial moments, changing by the minute, by the day, by the year as dynamic interrelationships between light and space.
Our glass work is the merging of diverse materials, technologies, and New Media art. The process begins with the finalization of an artwork on the computer, transmitted via internet to a proprietary UNIX server. This server drives an extremely precise RGB (red, green, blue) laser machine to transform by continuous exposure, a super-high resolution polyethylene film interlayer, achieving 4000dpi equivalent resolution continuous tone colors exactly as I have specified within my artwork. The film interlayer is then moved to a clean room where it is layered between sheets of urethane and low-iron optically clear glass. The glass assembly is then sealed in a vacuum bag and placed in an autoclave, reaching 5000psi at high temperature, semi-liquefying the urethanes to permanently bond all layers together.
The result is an art form that works for a living. It is an art that at once brings the visible light spectrum to witness by intricate design and pattern, forms and textures, contrast and complexity. It brings vibrancy to the physical backdrop of our daily lives while ever changing as its unbreakable relationship with the sun tracking the movement of our earth. A public space with such an influence is a public place never the same.
With light as the fundamental defining factor in all visual art, the glass work I have successfully produced is both highly advanced, and culturally relevant. Combining computer media artworks created through the use of advanced graphical software and hardware with environmentally responsible materials and processes, I have created an architectural art glass of colors so pure (up to a theoretical 36 Billion potential, far exceeding the human eye’s 10 Million color perception) that the combining with sunlight produces spatial moments, changing by the minute, by the day, by the year as dynamic interrelationships between light and space.
Our glass work is the merging of diverse materials, technologies, and New Media art. The process begins with the finalization of an artwork on the computer, transmitted via internet to a proprietary UNIX server. This server drives an extremely precise RGB (red, green, blue) laser machine to transform by continuous exposure, a super-high resolution polyethylene film interlayer, achieving 4000dpi equivalent resolution continuous tone colors exactly as I have specified within my artwork. The film interlayer is then moved to a clean room where it is layered between sheets of urethane and low-iron optically clear glass. The glass assembly is then sealed in a vacuum bag and placed in an autoclave, reaching 5000psi at high temperature, semi-liquefying the urethanes to permanently bond all layers together.
The result is an art form that works for a living. It is an art that at once brings the visible light spectrum to witness by intricate design and pattern, forms and textures, contrast and complexity. It brings vibrancy to the physical backdrop of our daily lives while ever changing as its unbreakable relationship with the sun tracking the movement of our earth. A public space with such an influence is a public place never the same.
Another Glass Floor
120611 15:52 EST
liquidoranges completes another laminated glass floor for a data center in Alexandria, VA integrating our triple laminated tempered glass floor panels with Specialty Raised Flooring, Inc.'s unique raised floor pedestal system which ties directly to Tate Access Flooring products. This project included 72 - 24"x24" panels.
2012 Catalogs Now Available
113011 16:47 EST
The beautiful 36 page full color catalogs are now available. Catalog covers all products currently in production, including our architectural art glass, giclee' art prints, hand-tufted rugs, etc. Click back to our Home page to order yours!
Light Fixture Design - Part II
112911 09:59 EST
Our meeting with the light fixture manufacturer in New York went very well, and we are now awaiting their shipment of fixtures to us for redesign incorporating our art glass. This is really exciting for us as light is what really makes our glass come alive. The office is now in a scramble to acquire workshop space to work with these fixtures, as well as prototype our own. Our mission is to prove our fixture designs can be manufactured economically. We know they can, but we will demonstrate how it is done, taking advantage of modern manufacturing practices, some of which come from the electronics industry.
Light Fixture Design
110811 15:07 EST
Reese Schroeder at liquidoranges recently gave a preliminary presentation to the regional representative for one of the big light fixture manufacturers in the USA. We have received an invitation to travel to their headquarters and present to the company. These fixture designs incorporate liquidoranges laminated art glass as lenses over the manufacturers LED technologies, for maintenance free architectural fixtures.
Art Glass for a Saudi Prince
110711 15:58 EST
We've been working hard on a version of the great Mecca Clock in Saudi Arabia, to be installed at the residence of a Saudi Prince. Using our architectural laminated art glass technology, we presented a pair of samples to our worldwide clock maker client last week. This glass clock face will be the ultimate test of our process, as the sun is very intense in Saudi Arabia, and the specified color temperature for the internal LED's is less than desirable. We prefer working with 5300K, as true daylight. Here's a snapshot of the sample when placed outside on our client's light box.
12"x12" clear sample with optional background colors.
12"x12" clear sample with optional background colors.
liquidoranges Gets a Showroom
100411 11:00 EST
Our strategic business partner, Noteborn-USA is now hosting the liquidoranges showroom at 150 Market Street, 3rd Floor, Lynn, MA, where our Specialty Interiors Products including hand-tufted rugs, laminated art glass and exclusive tableware products are on display.
Call David or Roxanne @ 781-599-7402 for an appointment!
Call David or Roxanne @ 781-599-7402 for an appointment!
Noteborn-USA Open House
050611 16:06 EST
It was a great time! Thank you to David Downs and Roxanne McLean of NoteBorn-USA.com for their wonderful hospitality in making our introduction to their excellent products such a success.
(L) David Downs, (M) Roxanne McLean, of Noteborn-USA, (R) Reese Schroeder, President at liquidoranges STUDIO
(L) David Downs, (M) Roxanne McLean, of Noteborn-USA, (R) Reese Schroeder, President at liquidoranges STUDIO
Prince of Peace receives praise
043011 12:37 EST
Prince of Peace church in Philadelphia burned to the ground three years ago. As part of their building reconstruction, a glass floor component was incorporated. liquidoranges strategic business partner Specialty Raised Flooring designed the support system to span across the baptismal recessed into the floor, with liquidoranges clear floor panels allowing for congregants to see through.
"The install went very well. I was really pleased with the fit of the glass panels. The thickness was consistent and the panels slipped in nicely when held completely flat. The gap was minimal, just like we drew it up. I bet your QC jig worked out nicely. Thanks for a great job."
Roman Pastuch
http://www.specialtyraisedfloors.com
"The install went very well. I was really pleased with the fit of the glass panels. The thickness was consistent and the panels slipped in nicely when held completely flat. The gap was minimal, just like we drew it up. I bet your QC jig worked out nicely. Thanks for a great job."
Roman Pastuch
http://www.specialtyraisedfloors.com
