Picture Frame Blog
The artwork we collect in our homes becomes a part of our personal stories, reflecting our own tastes and individuality and offering insight to about who we are. Hanging framed artwork in our homes can inspire, calm and remind us about what we find beautiful in life. It’s pretty absurd, then, that so much of ...
The Nielsen Bainbridge name is synonymous with high-quality frames and framing supplies. Nielsen Bainbridge products are used all over the world by professional photographers as well as museums and archives with a deep responsibility for displaying and preserving artwork and documents. Formed from the merger of two companies in 1984, parts of Nielsen Bainbridge’s history ...
Most people are aware that properly framing a document or a piece of art is one of the best ways to keep such pieces clean and protect them from deterioration – that’s the whole point of archival framing practices used by museums and document collections. However, it’s less commonly known that some documents, prints, or ...
Mat board is an essential item for serious photographers, who understand that the final display of a photo is critical to fully appreciating it. The choice of picture frame and mat can have a big influence on the look and mood of a great picture. But mat board has a lot of other potential uses. ...
Framing a photograph or piece of art is almost as important to the display as the image itself. While the actual picture is what you want to display, without a good frame, the art will not be shown to its best advantage. Picture frames create visual space around a photo, separating it from its surroundings ...
If you’re an avid photographer or simply like to surround yourself with lots of pictures, figuring out how to display pictures can be an interesting challenge. Hanging pictures in simple, boring rows doesn’t do them justice, and it isn’t always visually appealing. But having a huge jumbled wall of framed art doesn’t look great either. ...
Guest post by Catherine Jo Morgan, The Heart Painter In talking with gallery owners and other artists, I’ve found two different approaches to framing paintings. Some suggest “just anything to get it on the wall”—in other words, cheap mats and frames. The expectation is that the buyer will have the painting reframed to suit personal ...
For nearly two decades, CDs have been a medium of choice for archiving computer data, and they were later joined by DVDs. Anyone who has suffered from data loss knows how important it is to back up computer files – especially photograph collections. As a photo storage option, burning photo files onto a CD or ...
Nobody has cookie-cutter memories of special events, school plays, vacations with family, major work milestones, or other significant life events. These are the memories we capture in photographs and display on our walls, desks, and scatter around the rest of our spaces. While the moments we record in pictures are special and unique to us, ...
Picture frames can be made out of, well, practically anything. Glass, acrylic, stone, concrete, molded plastic, recycled materials, and many other items and materials can be used to make creative frames. Most often, however, customers narrow it down to just two: wood or the more modern metal. Wood may have reigned as the chosen picture ...