Project: cheap large scale art
One of the wonderful aspects of our apartment is the 12 foot ceilings — but it also means an almost overwhelming amount of white wall. We’d been struggling with how to fill the space. (In my fantasy apartment, we’d hang a beautiful large scale Michael Abrams).
And, as much as I’d like to do a photo wall like the ones I blogged about recently, I don’t really have the photos, time or patience to start on a project of that scale (some day!!). However, we’d both seen this image in Elle Decor of a map of Paris that had been cut up and framed:
This bathroom is also in my home clipping book (loving multiples of botanicals right now…):
The idea of cutting up an image and framing it inspired us to put one of my favorite BluePrint ideas to use. Blueprint is one of my favorite magazines these days — they just really get me and my demographic — I feel that magazines like it (that combine shopping, design, culture and cooking in a smart, beautifully designed package) are the future of “women’s magazines”. I cherish each issue and actually save them and re-read them, which is something I’ve never done with a magazine before. In any case, in their March/April 2007 issue they featured “Quick Change” Art installations using “jobbers” or shop ticket holders which I thought was awesome:
I did some searching online and found jobjacketstore.com (25 for $30 = affordable). The husband found a site, rasterbator, that takes images and raztorizes them (turns them into a set of 8.5 by 11 images). We choose a 4 by 4 but we could have done much larger 8 by 8 for those of you with lofts in a city not NYC. It was also his idea to use a snapshot from our honeymoon (in PARIS!!) of the Effiel Tower. We printed them out on our home printer, slipped them into the sleeves, stuck them on the walls with basic office tape (which in my experience has the least negative effects on walls) and we were in business!! I’m really pleased with how they came out.
Action shots:
And, result:
I think this would look great with landscapes, done in color (abuse that work color printer!), or of a vintage snapshot, scanned and uploaded. The best part is that since the sleeves have a slot at the top it is easy to change these as often as you want.
July 30th, 2007 22:17
wow–looks fabulous!!
July 31st, 2007 10:25
We miss you Sylvia! We wish you could come over for dinner … how is school? Abbey
August 4th, 2007 08:51
A Quick, Cheap Way To Hang Art on Your Walls (Eiffel Tower Print)…
A quick way to make a pretty 4 foot by 4 foot print to fill a large wall using plastic sleeves (jobbers) and a laser printer! The link uses a snapshot of the Eiffel Tower….
August 21st, 2007 11:48
that is amazing. i am OBSESSED with that bathroom.
October 4th, 2007 03:05
[...] (!!) some of these photographs will fetch, its the next best thing! I’m thinking of using my leftover “jobbers” from this project to frame some of the images above (i LOVE the hand (its a self portrait by Andy [...]
January 20th, 2008 02:19
So delightful! What a great idea!
October 15th, 2008 07:37
Great idea!
I have a difficult time ‘committing’ to art. This way I could have a wall of art that’s constantly changing.
Also, I want to use this idea in the baby’s room where we try to put up new pictures frequently.
November 5th, 2009 22:31
[...] font at dafont.com and photoshop, and then Rasterbating the image. Remember this rasterbation project from our old [...]