Fly

In Summer 2018 we launched and managed an artist collaboration called Maneki-neco. Misha Petrick, the founder of the studio, came up with a neon cat design.

Being huge fans of feasible artifacts, we decided to order a real neon sign with that design.

Every day the sign has delighted our eye, greeted and farewelled our guests, colored the room into nice pink-blue colors.

When we looked closely we saw that something had gotten stuck between neon tubes and therefore caused the power failure. That something was a fly - little and barely visible dweller of our office. Floating freely in a spacious studio, it initiated a too-close encounter with the neon cat.

We decided to honor the memory of the flying creature by making a short cartoon about its daily life in the office and the tragedy, that happened from the pure love for our beatiful sign.