But it all begs the question, why? The foam finger began with an Iowa high school student named Steve Chmelar. In 1971, Chmelar built a giant hand from hardware cloth and paper mache with an ...

Next time you see a stone, wood or brick sign, take a second glance. It might be made of foam. That’s a big part of the work done at Innovative Foam, found on Fifth Avenue just across the ...