"YES WE CAN!"
Four years ago, we had a woman come in with a political sign from Illinois. Her son had worked on the campaign trail of a young politician with a funny name, and wanted the sign to be framed. When she picked it up, she looked at the piece, then at me, and said, "This will be our next president."
That senator was Barak Obama, and that was the first but not the last time we would encounter his name.
Now,
we at the Framemakers usually keep politics out of the workplace, but
this was a turning point. For the most part, we're a pretty liberal bunch,
although Meg keeps us in line — sort of. ;) And many of our customers
had come in with similar opinions.
For fun, Amy C.designed the Obama campaign logo in PathTrace, the program that came with the Wizard computerised matcutter. It took about 10 minutes to program and another ten to tweak. It was saved and awaited to be used.
Needless to say, we've had some interesting stuff come in this month.
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A regular customer of ours had found beadwork her father had done during the sixties and early seventies. She was originally going to just frame them, until we thought of adding a few things from the local Democratic headquarters. A bumper sticker and a flyer added to the design, and our custom Obama logo was placed in the corner. It was a big hit with the customer and her office. She also had three smaller bands framed separately.
Both items were framed with acid-free mats and Conservation Clear glass. |
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New York Times — Simplistically framed, with conservation-grade matting and Museum glass for readability. |
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"VOTE Poster" Triple conservation-grade mats and Museum glass. |
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"Sticker Set with Bumper Sticker and Logo" Triple conservation-grade mats, top mat was built up to create depth, multiple openings and specialty cut, Museum glass. Companion piece to the VOTE poster (above.) |
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"Mastheads with photo and logo" Double conserveration mats, multiple openings with insert for logo background. Mastheads from The Washington Post, The New York Times, Waterville Morning Sentinel (our local paper) and USA Today. Blurb on left of the Morning Sentinel is about the Democratic Senate incumbant for Maine Mike Michaud's victory. Museum glass. |
