12/23/2025
Every now and then, there’s a project that immediately feels like a greatest hit! This is one of those times so we can’t resist sharing a deep dive on the significance of the design for this holiday gift.
Zoe participates in an awesome integrated fitness program called Aiming Beyond Limits (ABL) Fitness. ABL has many different offerings but the one Zoe loves is a group class of young adults with all different types of abilities - much like the Unified Sports Model. It’s a fun, social, inclusive and high energy hour that is a master class in differentiated instruction and challenges each athlete to do their best while being part of an amazing community.
The ABL logo features a barbell that includes the rainbow infinity symbol - often associated with neurodiversity and acceptance for all - between the barbell plates so we were pretty excited when we stumbled upon these beads with the rainbow infinity symbol on them a few months ago. Then came the realization that we had these pens with a gradient design in the pinks, purples and blues that are heavily featured in the ABL palette. The design was coming together but it wasn’t until we thought to break out the extension bars that everything fell into place. After all, what better use of something that makes these pens longer than expected than to use them for a program called Aiming Beyond Limits! Zoe surrounded the infinity bead with black abacus beads to approximate the plates at the ends of the barbell in ABL’s logo and then still had room for the letters ABL and a few more abacus beads in ABL’s colors that also symbolize the ladder cardio machine that Zoe loves to use during class.
Zoe packaged them as a “Zouquet” of Pens held together with a bracelet-like band crafted in the same spirit.