The Frame Maker booth at ArtWalk built with new green ECOR™ panels

Even though The Frame Maker doesn’t do trade shows on a regular basis (although we do go to a few), we are still conscious of the amount of sheer waste usually associated with these kind of events as exhibitors, and the last thing we need do in a frame shop is make more waste.

Meeting Robert Noble of Noble Environmental Technologies of La Jolla and his staff this spring was a gift from the heavens in the context of designing a booth for The Frame Maker as part of our sponsorship of this weekend’s Mission Federal ArtWalk.

We didn’t want to make anything that would just get thrown away, and we knew we wouldn’t have much future opportunity to reuse a 20′ x 10′ booth made for displaying art! When Bob and his staff offered to donate some of their revolutionary new ECOR green building panels, (online at www.ecorglobal.com) we were excited at the idea of using recycled materials and also at being able to leverage our presence at ArtWalk to let more people know about what Bob and his staff are doing, not just for the environment, but also for our local San Diego economy.

When we figured out that coupled with the grand format printing technologies of Moebius Color, we could recycle/reuse all of the donated panels after ArtWalk by returning them to ECORglobal for their own future marketing use, we were over the moon about the direction the booth was taking!

Here’s some more info on the ECOR panels first:

ECOR Advanced Environmental Composites

If you can’t imagine all the possibilities this completely recycled product has to offer the art & design world or why its PERFECT for a booth like ours, check out this second piece of literature Bob and his staff have prepared/

ECOR Advance Environmental Composites

We aren’t getting as sophisticated in our booth as the ideas above, but we are very pleased with the solution Pete and Mike from Moebius came up for us. Their machines can image on virtually any surface now, meaning that instead of mounting paper or vinyl more or less permanently to our structural ECOR panels, we’re using a lightweight rigid plastic that is easily installed AND removed from the panels, as well as being removed in such a way that both graphics and panels are preserved for the future.

We’re not sure when we’ll use the image panels again, but storing them becomes easy when the image panels themselves are only a quarter of an inch thick and extremely light. Given that we don’t have to roll/fold/or otherwise package them for storage (the inks are outdoor/UV quality!), it becomes economical both for the environment and the bank account to save them for later.

We’re including one image of our ArtWalk booth panel graphics to show why we’re happy to save them for potential future use:

Come down and see us this weekend at Fir Street and India by the fountain at Piazza Balione. We’ll have real frames and samples from our new green picture framing lines and a preview of our new show at The Frame Maker, “Artists Proof”, morepictures coming to The Frame Maker blogs soon!