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ono! is Jono Isbell, an artist, designer and fabricator based in Northern Nevada. He studied at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and has spent twenty years building things at every scale, from paintings to a 75-foot steel tower.

He draws, engineers and builds his own work. The same hands that make the painting make the structural drawings and run the welder, so an idea never has to be handed off and flattened on its way to becoming real.

His public work includes Freak Beacon (Detroit, 2016), a 9,000-pound steel sculpture built with support from the Knight Foundation, and Laminar Flow (Los Angeles, 2007), an installation at the main entrance of SCI-Arc.

He also runs Hollow Arch, a design-build practice for fabrication, architectural engineering and work other shops turn down, and keeps a running notebook of research projects.