So! You’re a poor and starving artist who really needs to frame his or her
work. It doesn’t matter whether it’s for your first exhibition or for a customer, or just to sell it, you just need you art in a frame. You’ve been selling sell your work as it is, unframed, with zero presentation effort . Alas, you’ve since discovered the harsh truth that art won’t frame itself and it’s harder to sell it unframed or without a picture frame. If it’s just on a piece of paper, it’ll look pretty unappealing, no matter whichever masterpiece it’ll purport to display. You’ve also been around the traps long enough to know...
10 picture frames to make you cry in happiness
Posted on Category: Picture Framing Industry InsightsBy:We venture to say that at least every household has some shadow box picture frames hung on
a wall that will make the beholder sniffle, if not cry, in a happy, emotional response. Typically the framed item might be a photograph, a note, a document or an object marking or commemorating a birth, a newborn wristband, cast of baby hands or feet, a christening, a school report or something and anything just as close or as dear to a family’s heart. This brings us to one inescapable truth of life, all children will eventually grow up, and become adults. And adults love their birthdays, just as much as children ...
Spice up your home and your life with your film posters, and our movie poster frames.
Posted on Category: Ready-Made FramingBy:Indeed, February has come around, again. This is the month when the Australian Government Public Service Graduate Program starts once more, as it has, for decades. It is needed because, truly, the public sector is a huge, employee-hungry, employer. The Federal Government alone has 14 official Government Departments in Australia. In alphabetical order these are, Attorney-General's Department, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Department of Defence, Department of Education Skills and Employment, Department of Finance, Department of Foreign ...
When black is the new black …
Posted on Category: Picture Framing Industry InsightsBy:When Customers asks us if black picture frames are still fashionable we often answer with this old aphorism “Black is the new black”.
In fact, picture frames with black mouldings is our single and most popular product. Which bring us to that old conundrum, the colour black isn’t a really colour! Contradictory? Well, check out any rainbow. You ought to be able to sequentially see, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet but not black. This is because black is darkness, or the absence of light and not on the visible colour spectrum. Technically then, neither black nor white are ...
Is there an anti-yellowing, “safe” picture frame ?
Posted on Category: Frequently Asked Questions ( FAQs )By:
Just before Christmas, a lady Customer brought a medium-sized, black-and-white print which had been wrapped and stored away from sunlight since 1967. She was excited at having discovered the print which was the last of a set of three her artist father had created, and now wanted it framed in a "safe" picture frame. Alas, the set of 3 prints was somehow mislaid and became separated over the years, and only the first 2 prints had been framed. The third and last print was the one brought in to us for farming and the Customer wanted us match the framing of the other two. As she ...
Saving Customers with their picture frames and picture framing inquiries
Posted on Category: Picture Framing Industry InsightsBy:Saving Customers with their picture frames and picture framing inquiries questions,
queries, sales, complaints and problems is what our Customer Service is all about. No two Customer are like, and so are the challenges. For instance, we have been packing parcels in the same manner and method for years. And while one Customer will post us a glowing review for how we do it, yet another will complain that there’s too much packing. We do however have very good business reputation which, in great part, derives from our experience in the picture framing industry, around 50 years. ...
When no seems to be the hardest word ..
Posted on Category: Picture Framing Industry InsightsBy:Yes, we’re making an intended pun here to Elton John’s famous 1976 ballad,
but the sentiment, how to say some thing tough firmly. but nicely, such as the negation, no; is much the same. While custom picture framers the world over pride themselves on customer service, sometimes, someone, someplace will have to say no to some Customers’ requests. And saying no to, anyone, especially Customers who are our business lifeblood and livelihood, can be the hardest word, as the song says. We are no different, and over the years we have had to respectfully decline various types of requests ..
Of window mat designs and proportions
Posted on Category: Frame Parts & ComponentsBy:
Most Customers with an interest or passion in home décor, and more particularly, the picture framing and display of art on paper, such as photos, prints, posters and the like, will probably already know what is a window mat (or window mount or passé-partout as it is known in Europe) when researching window mat designs . However for those who may not be fine art aficionados, a window mat is paper or cardboard edge one often sees around many of the nicer photos or images. It creates a separate field of colour, definition and light, between the picture frame and the art itself. More prosaically, it keeps the glass off and away from touching the art ...
Our 10 best solutions to your 10 worst picture frames problems
Posted on Category: Frame Care & MaintenanceBy:
Everyday life is replete with problems and issues, small medium and big and so it is with solutions to picture frames problems , or with photo frames, or with clip frames and just about every other type of frame there is. In this post below we have enumerated solutions to picture frames problems, or a compendium of the top ten annoyances involving and revolving around these useful, but often frustrating, decor essentials. We hope that at least some of the solutions here will be of use to you.
Problem 1: Should I get my print custom framed or do I just put it myself in a ready–made frame? Generally speaking, this will depend ...