The Reverendos sign
I recreated in NearSolid the sign of a nightclub where I met my wife. I ended up showing it to the owner on the spot.
A while ago I came across a post about the final closure of Ozone, a nightclub in Pamplona. It used to be called Reverendos. That is where I met my wife.
The whole thing made me nostalgic, and I ended up doing something that was never part of any product plan: finding an old photo of the facade, rebuilding the sign layer by layer, and bringing it into NearSolid so I could see it again on the real building.
The interesting part is that I was not using the tool to preview a future design. I was using it to recover something that no longer existed. It is an unusual turn, but a revealing one: when you can place real volume and scale onto a place, you can also use it for memory, context, and storytelling, not only for production.
While I was there recording, Abraham, the owner, came over. He asked whether I was documenting the renovation. I explained why I was standing outside with my phone in the air, and we ended up talking about the history of the venue, his father, the name changes, and the new phase of the space.
In the end I showed him NearSolid with his own building on screen.
It was not the use case I had in mind when I started building this, but it explains another side of the tool well: it is not only for closing a proposal or avoiding a mistake. It can also help rebuild context around a real place.
If you want to see that moment, there is a short video on YouTube. If you are more interested in the commercial use case, the signage page shows the idea better.
