Contract framing @ The Frame Maker

Most people know us for our museum quality framing standards and commitment to fine materials and craftsmanship. Certain San Diego design professionals also know us as contract picture framers who provide superior product and value at the wholesale level for designers who seek real value (i.e a good price AND high quality) in large volume purchases of art and picture framing for commercial environments.

One large contract job driving our busy autumn and December seasons is shipping this week, over five hundred customized, individual giclee prints on paper and canvas framed mostly in pretty light maple moulding and off white rag mats and linen.

Wholesale picture frames stacked for delivery

Contract picture framing order ready to ship.

We were able to order all the moulding on this job custom made because of the footage involved, saving our client a lot of money and enabling us to dictate the terms we prefer as local artisans: all 11,000 feet of maple, poplar and walnut mouldings used on this job were milled from sustainably grown and harvested lumber in North America by North American craftsman.

The last of this order was completed in our busy end of the year. I’m including a shot here of our December schedule board to give an idea of how much volume The Frame Maker handles, especially when you consider that the large wholesale custom framing order shown above doesn’t even appear on this calendar!!:

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Seminal Projects @ The Frame Maker

In January, the Frame Maker is proud to be showing a selection of excellent pieces from Luis de Jesus’ Seminal Projects, one of our favorite community galleries and our neighbor up the street in Little Italy.

Featuring work by Chris Barnard, Darius Kuzmickas and others, Luis has put this show together for us through January 21st, 2009.

DARIUS KUZMICKAS PinholeD176, Ocean

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Busy end of the year @ The Frame Maker

We’ve been working away on lots of involved projects this December @ The Frame Maker and have lots of new pictures and testimonials to add to the site– in an attempt to get caught up before 2009 get started, we’ll be adding some posts here and on the  TFM Design Blog as well.

Starting with a follow-up to the project we did for San Diego Coastkeeper‘s Ocean Gala back in November:

We love supporting worthy causes in our community, and like anyone, we also love to be appreciated for it. Below is an image of the acknowledgement letter we received with a very sweet handwritten note from Coastkeeper executive director Bruce Reznick.

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Art Space for San Diego: meeting December 10, 2008

Our friends at Spacecraft forwarded this info to us about a unique opportunity for the San Diego art community to show united support for more affordable work space for local artists and a more vibrant  local art community in general.

From San Diego artist Chris Warr:

 My friend Cheryl Nickel is heading up a committee that is working to build affordable work/live art studios in San Diego.  This would be a space where artists could live, create, collaborate, network, and show and do so at a significantly affordable rate.  Almost all major metropolitan cities have at least one space of this nature, and its fine time we get one in San Diego.  The group Art Space (google them to learn more), who has designed and built many of these facilities throughout the US and in Canada, is interested in building a space for us.  They will be giving a talk and answering questions at 7pm on December 10th at the World Beat Center in Balboa Park.

The issue at hand is that this project will not happen without the city’s cooperation.   The city is in question as to whether or not there is a demand for this type of space in San Diego and it should be no surprise that they are hesitant to put funding and effort towards the arts.  The significance of the arts in culture, economics, education, etc. and in other words its general necessity in society can all be argued, and backed up on paper by numerous facts derived from the extensive library of studies and research done on this topic.  However our artistic community’s’ demand for opportunity and facility can only be expressed by our presence.

Here’s where you and I come in:
What we need is an overwhelming amount of people; artists of all forms and supporters, to show up to this meeting on December 10th.  There will be a number of city council members at this meeting, they will be taking note as to how many people attend and it can quite seriously make or break this project.  Is there enough artists in San Diego who would benefit from or need a space like this?  I would think the response to this question would be a resounding “hell yes!”  We need to flood the World Beat Center and pour out the door so that there can be no doubt that there are gobs of artists who are chomping at the bit for an affordable space/means to create their work, and that the time to meet this need is long over due. Please come, and please inform and bring as many people as possible.  The success of this project is dependent on it.

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Rob Quigley New Central Library show: last two weeks

Our current show of Little Italy neighbor & architect Rob Wellington Quigley‘s beautiful design work for the proposed New Central Library in downtown San Diego is up for two more weeks.

Please stop into our showroom before Thanksgiving weekend to see Rob’s essential hand drawings and digital renderings of the Library design, which is a beautiful illustration of “public architecture born of public input”.

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