framed poster thread

Does UV reactive mat board exist? Like if you shine a torch to it, a hidden pattern or texture is revealed? If it doesn’t exist, it should.

I only have one print left to frame from Jack White's Minneapolis show last month. Stuck on trying to figure out mat colors.

madtowndave said:

I only have one print left to frame from Jack White's Minneapolis show last month. Stuck on trying to figure out mat colors.

I can take a wild guess. Blue

I have a selection of about 10 posters I am going to get framed up as a job lot, to go in my 'den' - obviously the colours and sizes vary across the 'range' so i'm stuck between a few options. Wanted to get thoughts.

1) Plain main mat of a neutral colour (white/off white) with a contrast 2nd mat underneath to complement the print, all the same frame style
2) Differing mats to complement the prints, all the same frame style
3) Complete and utter free for all across mats and frames to best complement the individual print

Also, i have varying bits to go along with the posters - tickets, picks, setlists, stickers - can't decide whether to frame along with the posters or not.

They'll be on 2 of the 4 walls in the room if that makes any difference so they will be close together.

I think trying to use a frame and/or mat that has none of the colors in the print never works out, almost without exception.  A black frame/white mat is always fine but otherwise that's tough to do, even if it's thematic like red/white for the White Stripes.

You could always take the image and upload it to one of those sites that will show you how it looks, at least on your computer monitor.  I think americanframe does that.

Zod said:

hadfiiw said:

Zod said:

How do you all afford to frame your posters?  I finally moved into a house about 3+ years ago.  About a year in I underwent the project to frame my posters.   Ended up framing about 20 of them.    I chose quantity over quality.   Brought them to a local framing shop and they did pretty simple custom cut frames.   Metal black frame with glass front.   About $50 (Canadian) each give or take $10 depending on the size.   That cost me well over $1000 to do.   Now when I get new ones I get them framed the same way so they match.  They look pretty good, but not as cool as the matted ones people post on here.

My b-day and fathers day is only a week (or so) apart so my family will get me a combo b-day and fathers day gift of a framed poster.

It is expensive but I had blank walls before I started framing posters.  I can't imagine anything else up there.

Our house is the same way.   We had nothing on the walls, and one day we bought a 3 piece print of a lake and mountains and put it over the couch (because it felt like the adult thing to do).    Ever since it's been framing the concert posters I've been collecting for 20 years.    I was mildly concerned coverings one house in concert posters wasn't a very adult thing to do, but it's very much an "us" thing to do, because we like going to concerts and it's a big part of our lives.   The hard part has been finding some non PJ posters to mix it up a bit.   PJ has been doing them over 20 years, but most other bands I've started going to only started this decade. 

I might not matte them given my budget constraints, but I'm pretty happy with the custom framing for them.  Each one looks framed perfectly.    The problem now is slowly running out wall space.   I brought 3 more in for framing today (Seattle 2018, QoTSA Victoria '18, and Foo Fighters Vancouver '18).    It's going to be interesting when I get them back

We just bought our house last year and put our two PJ prints in the living room. Now we're working on a collage wall of photos of posters we'll never be able to afford (hubs first show -- 1996 Hartford always seems to slip through my fingers) as well as some of this year's Fenway shows that we did buy and the Foo prints we got. Our Fenway and Tampa posters got custom frame jobs at Michaels, but most of the others got decent quality frames (again from Michaels) until we can afford to update them. They're framed and hung so it's more adult that just tacking them up (or puttying like in college)...at least that's how I justify it. 

Also @FadedGlory
Your posters and mat jobs look amazing! I LOVE the Cincy one!