Anybody Framed Their Lolla Creature Yet?

inmyrvm

just got mine today, wow it's pretty. still looking for answers!

TheGossman

so has anyone framed their lolla poster? Please I need some ideas!

hrd2imgn

ok framing 101

acid free/archival is best if you can afford it. papers contain acid and it can transfer to other papers if they touch. The less acid the less yellowing. But if you're touching it with your fingers you are transferring oils from your fingers to it too so at that point it may not be worth the extra cash. Acid free mats will not yellow over time so the inner bevel you see should stay the color of the board. All the tapes or hangers should be acid free/archival too or the same result. The hangers may even discolor more from the glues and you get dark yellow/brown spots that come through the poster eventually.

UV glass will lessen the effect that light has on basically sucking the color out of your poster. Light rays will fade the pigments in inks and UV gflass helps deter that effect. Think of a bulletin board that had something taken down and the color of the paper underneath always is darker where the thing hanging up was. Same thing can happen with a poster in a mat, the area expesed to light will darken and the areas under the mat will stay lighter and you actually get a sort of burned frame on the poster. Flourescent lights SUCK for color steadfastness. Direct sunlight is also very bad.

anything with cardboard bad bad bad- lots of acid in it. I cringe everytime I get a ten club order that has our poster wrapped in newsprint, another huge acid culprit. So even backing boards should be acid free.

If your stuff is in plastic it too should be archival/acid free even photocorners can have acid in them.

so in essencethere is acid in just about everything that has touched your poster already. It will eventaully turn the paper that familiar shade of old yellow. The more precautions you take the less rapidly the effect will occur.

a good framing job with baords and acid free stuff, UV glass a that size will run between 90-250 depending on the type of frame. You can buy a ready made frame for way less and just have michaels/whoever cut you the mat and spend about a third the price, but you have to mount it yourself. So, basically you have to make a lot of decisions and if lazy pay the extra $$

I have a print by an Israeli artist Nafatali Bezem I had framed at Michaels, the spacers they put in it are already falling out of place...but I had some paintings framed and they look great.


Anyone in Seattle want a framer that is local and needs some buisness as he just opened and is really needing some customers
email Kevin at: orangesplot@yahoo.com

tell him you need to frame stuff and Freitag sent you, he should hook you up and is one of the nicest guys. He is a friend from college and will do anything you want.


Anyone know for sure are Ames and Klausen posters even on acid free paper?

Also on that Lolla poster I would say black mat all the way, simple wood or metal frame, Black or white as well.

Transcendental

WOOHOO! I FRAMED MINE!!!!

LeafsJaysCubsRaptorsFan

Vedderman23 wrote:

http://www.americanframe.com/

Exactly

Pearl Jam_ie

Here's mine. Had it done at Michaels. Pics a little fuzzy, sorry. It's mounted slightly off-center to the right. Nobody has ever noticed, but it bugs the shit out of me.

vant0037

adam42381 wrote:

I'm thinking about heading down to Michael's to get it framed. Anybody have a picture they could upload of theirs? I'm looking for ideas but not to spend a ton of money. Definitely going with acid free boards though. Also going to be getting my White Stripes poster from Fairfax framed at the same time. Most likely with a red mat. http://www.expressobeans.com/public/detail.php/64522

www.frankenframes.com

Pick your own frame, have them shipped assembled, go to any hardware store, have them cut glass and frame backing, frame your own poster. I've done that with 7+ posters (including several PJ/Ames prints) and couldn't be happier with the results.