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Boxing Day (a little early) – Custom Framing

Boxing Day (a little early) – Custom Framing

Ordinary items can make extraordinary displays. With custom framing, many things can be framed in a shadowbox to enhance your design concept. This week, Russell shares an equipment display for a boxing-themed fitness center. He also explains how we solved a problem by...

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Digital art from Etsy printed onto… wood!

Digital art from Etsy printed onto… wood!

This week in the frame shop at Artifex, Russell shows us some beautiful wood panel prints in various sizes and shapes that were created for a client from an Etsy digital art download. Artifex can work with you to create beautiful solutions for your digital art...

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This Week in the Frame Shop

This Week in the Frame Shop

Collage as art? No problem. This week in the frame shop, Russell shares our process on sourcing and assembling antique books for an impactful collage display. [video width="1080" height="1920"...

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Put A Little Sunshine In Your Day

Put A Little Sunshine In Your Day

In the frame shop Russell is renewing some old skills. Joe created this pair of sunburst images in photoshop for Cortland Partners' Ridglea project from an inspiration provided by the designer. We printed them on fine art watercolor paper. Russell hand-applied gold...

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Rock and Roll Heaven

Rock and Roll Heaven

I'm sure we're going to "heck" for destroying these great vinyl albums, but sacrifices were made in the name of art. We created this 40” x 60” acrylic box for Jessica Aaron at Faulkner Design Group. It turns out vinyl record albums are harder to break than you might...

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All Aboard!

All Aboard!

This is a Split Flap sign board. Retro cool, noisy and fascinating to watch. Quickly becoming a thing of the past. Our client wanted the look without the expense and wiring. We created a manual look alike 72” x 48”. Bring us your fun and creative project ideas.

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Bodacious Beasts

Bodacious Beasts

Our client wanted a collection of focal pieces for a four level multi-family project. We created these ‘zoological’ portraits. The grunge backgrounds can be changed out. Want your zebra in Brooklyn instead? No problem. Check out the entire collection below and let's...

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Rhapsody in Blue

Rhapsody in Blue

Our commercial client’s design concept was surreal + blue. We created 49 custom blue images. The pieces were large, 40” x 60”, and framed in a copper floater frame. The results were stunning. See the full collection below.

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Ordinary Items – Extraordinary Displays

Ordinary Items – Extraordinary Displays

Designers create unique accessory wall groupings from ordinary items. You will get the ‘I never thought of that’ response from your friends. With Ebay and Etsy, it’s quite easy to create a unique collection. In the examples below we resourced the items for the...

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