Frankie Winters

Project Archive

  • Kindred Fixtures and Signage

    Interior and Exterior signage for a homestead supply shop in Vancouver.

  • Animated LED Sign

    A CNC machined sand dollar-inspired sign with soothing waves of color.

  • 3/4 Scale Covered Wagon

    Steel wheels, weathered boards, and aged canvas bring a cute little prairie schooner to life.

  • Grand Entry Arch

    A full-scale romanesque arch with fluted columns, integrated lighting, and hand-carved lettering.

  • Landmark Table Arbors

    Landmarks and architecture set the scene in travel-themed arbors with localized finishes and bracket designs.

  • Aluminum Rocket

    A five-foot rocket with hand-formed aluminum skin and animated lights.

  • National Park Sign №2

    This Oregon-shaped event sign is inspired by the distinctive entrance signs found at our national parks.

  • Moon Gate

    A circular arbor for ceremonies and events with espresso finish.

  • Faux Neon ”Little Havana“ Marquee Sign and Dance Structure

    On order for a themed dance event: a sign with inviting, luscious lighting and lots of vintage character.

  • Meeting Series for WooCommerce

    A plug-in that turns WordPress and WooCommerce into a machine that sells registrations for meetings, classes, or sessions.

  • Boxwood Hedges with Simple Planters

    Two four-foot faux-foliage hedges with plywood “planters”.

  • Karaoke Taxi

    Belt one out behind the wheel of this custom prop with realistic lights and detailed dash.

  • Custom Script Sign

    A hand-lettered Lucy rendered in plywood and paint.

  • “Fiesta Del Sol” Hanging Muraled Arches

    Three super lightweight twelve-foot-wide hanging backdrops with repositionable letters.

  • Signable 44” Nike Air Max

    An arms-width keepsake painted to be written on with metallic markers.

  • Seamless Plywood Lighted Window Sign

    I wanted to make a sign that looked like a single slab of plywood, but was internally lit. This lightweight, hollow-core design is meant for hanging against a window.

  • 400 Bottles of Beer Wall

    Sixty-four square feet of rack with precision notches for hanging bottles by the neck.

  • Zigzag Rope Suspended Pendleton Blanket Frames

    Sometimes projects change in arbitrary ways. This isn’t one of those projects.

  • Horse and Shoes in Steel

    Clydesdales in ¼” Steel Plate, Rusted and Weathered.

  • Horse and Shoe Engravings

    22″ Clydesdale Engraved on Plywood and a 24 Second Photoshop Thing

  • Colorful Mosaic Flats with Weathered Cedar Planks

    Design, Construction, and Finishing Four 4′×8′ Reusable Background Flats

  • Jetpack Portfolio Extensions

    A WordPress plugin that enhances Jetpack Portfolio with Isotope layout and live filtering, new shortcodes, support for excerpts, and more.

  • Let’s Explore 2½D Plywood Engraving

    Covering the process of translating an existing piece of artwork into a multilayered laser engraving.

  • No Soliciting Signs

    A small batch of lasered and painted plywood signs to deter spammy knockers and doorbell ringers.

  • Heathen’s Greetings Solstice Ornaments

    “Keep the Saturn in Saturnalia”

  • Collapsible Fairy Forest Partitions

    Three foldable partitions with locally-sourced organic tree branches and two hundred seventy feet of fairy wire.

  • Letters from Underground

    A work of nonlinear, speculative, neo-western, epistolary, dystopian fiction in 61 parts.

  • SkeeBall Redux

    Nine more balls for a tired carnival game.

  • Pool Table Lounger

    A concept to remake an old pool table as a set of party lounge chairs that latch together in dozens of ways.

  • Olympic Torch

    A seven-foot tall prop with weathered metal and marble effects as well as a microcontroller-fueled flame effect.

  • Sorry Friends No Drinks Outside

    Painted signage at The Zipper to help folks find the bathroom and the way out. Also, an admonition to keep drinks within their legal perimeter.

  • Daybed Swings

    Simple, Sturdy, Daybed-Inspired Swings made for the Zipper

  • Pop Out Cake

    I refit and refrosted a too-tired two-tiered two-sided pop-up party prop.

  • Hand-Cut Acrylic LED Signs

    A pair of matching, low-profile signs for Guerrilla Development and Brett Schulz Architect.

  • Stage Door Sign

    Hand-lettered panes on the front and back with beautiful, even, LED illumination.

  • 6:1 Rigging on Extra Large Fan

    A six-foot aluminum fan suspended via a six-to-one pulley arrangement.

  • One in the Head is Worth Two in the Bucket

    Made for Upswept Creative’s Design Monsters coloring sheet.

  • Chrome Bar

    A chrome bar in the 50’s style with checkerboard pattern and LED lights.

  • Magnetic Delta Sign

    Wrapped in aluminum and steel-clad on both sides. Metal pole mount sleeve and embedded fasteners for wall-hanging. Pinstriped with good ol‘ one-shot.

  • Coupes are for Chickens

  • Motivational Co-Working Space Mural

     

  • Go Boldly

  • Icons

  • On the Singularity

  • Not the Velocity

  • Assorted Logos

    I’ve made more than a few logos and logotypes over the years. Here are the survivors.

  • Original Enterprise

  • Storage for Highly Varied Coffee Cup Collection

  • Simple Wedding Chalkboards

  • Mad Hatter’s Hat, Times Three

  • Octagonal Backyard Table

    Ten feet wide. Eight sides. Four kid jumpseats. Two posts and a mini trellis.

  • Keep Flying the Airplane

  • Web Design Sketchers

    Sustainably-printed sketchbooks with a 960 grid

  • Eyeball Kid

    Everybody wants to see the Eyeball Kid

  • 1946 Chevy

    Black primer, Corvette Fuel Injection, 65k miles.

  • Weathered Script on Phony Brick Wall

  • Federation Workbee

    In 1/350 scale. Resin body, photoetch manipulator arm, decals. and paint.

  • Ornate Lettering on Rustic Sign

    Ornate Lettering on Rustic Sign

  • National Park Sign

    Building the Sign Panel The Rock Drawing the Letters

  • Laureled 45

    Made of 2″ EPS Insulation foam. Leaves

  • Portland Birth Classes

    I made a website for a local doula and childbirth mentor. It lists and sells registrations to the childbirth classes she teaches here in Portland.

  • Simple Gothic Windows

    On order were gothic window props, five at three by five feet.

  • Plow Software

    A site for an indie Mac developer featuring Mac App marketing and support pages.

  • Fossils Sign

    Bones in ivory on a narsty old board.

  • Responsive Print Design Portfolio

    A hand-coded responsive website to showcase the work of an award-winning print and document designer.

  • Wordsmith

    I made a pared-down word processor focused on tools writers need instead of superficial formatting.

  • CSS3Machine

    Animation and Effects Builder for iPad.

  • PDX Breakfast

    A Mobile Guide to Portland’s Favorite Meal

  • Let’s Explore

    The Thunder Road. Inspired by the movie The Explorers