Please Replace Your Rivets
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
Riveting
If only puns were as funny to other people as they are to the person who puns them.
I was handed an illustration gig on wednesday by my undergrad design professor, which is certainly both the best paying and highest profile job I’ve had to date. I’m happy about those things. The job was for a Kansas City architecture firm, and it involved doing some concept art for trophies that will incorporate old rivets from the Golden Gate bridge. The firm had done some retrofitting on the bridge a few years back, and they ended up keeping the rivets they removed as…souvenirs? I guess its best not to waste old steel, especially if it has some historical significance to it.
I was given one of the rivets as reference material while I worked on the project, and have been treating it with the utmost of reverence. Sure, it’s just a chunk of steel, but it has an artifact quality to it since it’s both part of one of our most well-known bridges, and because the people who gave it to me really seemed anxious about getting it back in good condition.
