Posted on: August 2nd, 2010 by Jay Buckley
Flip-Up Displays
Our customer wanted to show photos of the White Mountain National Forest, but they didn’t want to take up a lot of the display space with the captions. Their idea was to be able to flip up the photo and read the caption.
We executed this project by direct printing onto 3mm dibond, which is a sandwich of aluminum and PVC. For each display, a photo was printed on one piece, and a caption on another. We bought aluminum piano hinger and cut pieces of the appropriate length, and then used Gorilla glue to fasten the hinges to the two pieces. The hinges were then drilled and countersunk through the caption piece for wall mounting with wood screws.
I watched a couple of kids looking at the display when I took this photo, and they were delighted to wonder what was in the picture, and then to flip it up to find out. How cool!
Posted on: March 5th, 2010 by Jay Buckley
- Weeks Act Display
Here’s a great use of large format printing- an interesting display at Plymouth State University describing the events and legislation leading up to the preservation of the White Mountain National Forest.
The prints are mounted on gatorboard, gloss laminated, and have a black plastic edge trim that gives them the look of a frame, as well as protecting the edges from damage.
Plymouth State has a hanging system that uses clips that set in a groove in the wall, with a nylon strip ending in a snap that attaches to the picture frame wire on the back of the piece. The system allows displays to be positioned anywhere along the wall, and at any height, without any nails being driven.
It’s a great display, and a very interesting story about how the National Forests were created.
Posted on: February 1st, 2010 by Jay Buckley
- Museum Display
Here’s an interesting job we did for a museum in the midwest. The center of the display is a backlit print. Around the perimeter are standard gatorboard mounted museum display prints with a matte laminate.
Museum displays are fun for us, especially the historical photos. Our state of the art setup makes sure your black and white photos are really black and white, without a color cast that can happen when you put a grayscale photo in a color piece.
We usually print this kind of poster with UV stable inks so they last for a very long time, and laminate to protect the paper from the hands of the public.
Typically, the museum sends us digital files ready to print, but we also can help with the graphic design if you need that.
