i just got back from visiting shine today and am all stoked for a cool d.i.y. project idea that was in a post about design ideas. the idea is inspired by these rooms from a beautiful hotel on the island of folegandoes in greece, the anemi. the rooms (by designer stavros papayiannis) in this hotel are really rather serene and modern in design, using white walls with grey trim in most of them. this allows for the large photo canvases (project idea) to really pop out when used as either bed headboards or large backdrops. writer, callie jenschke suggested using blowuplab.com to create this look from a blown up photograph and looking back in my library of old blueprint magazines (sniffle sniffle) i came across a few other resources as well. duggal and shutterfly to blow up your favorite photograph. (continued below).
here's a little how to (with some help from blueprint's may '06 issue):
1. once you have chosen your image (preferabley a digital one). if not, you'll have to take your original picture and scan it to make it into digital format. if you don't have a scanner, you can take it to a local office center such as kinko's where they can do this for you. they can put the image on a cd so you can take it to whichever printer you decide to take it to.
2. depending on the size of your original image and what type of camera the image was taken from, will depend on how large you will be able to blow up your image to. it's best to have this looked at where you will be having the image blown up at for them to assess. the one's in these images are at least 5' x 7', so your original image would need to be of pretty high quality in the pixel department.
3. for a matte canvas, ask to look at samples before you go ahead. according to my trusty old blueprint magazine, ask for heavyweight artist's canvas, pigment-based dyes, and an ultra-violet-protective coating.
(all photo's from the anemi)
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I'm thinking that if one wants to use own photos, and the pictures haven't got enough pixels for prints as large as these, one could opt for a collage made of several smaller-scaled prints.
- Jessie -
http://www.blockposters.com/
of course, you get what you pay for.
http://www.uprinting.com. they will print your photo on canvas and include the option of a white border for mounting said photo on a frame. my print was 16" x 16" and cost $20 (including shipping), which i thought to be quite reasonable.
Here is another VERY reasonable place to get posters printed. I have not personally tried them yet, but have had them bookmarked for over a year! http://www.elcocolor.com/poster_special.htm
I just had this really cute idea. It would look awesome to illustrate (instead of photograph) a funky headboard and use that in place of the actual headboard. I may have to try this out. It would also be a cute spinoff to illustrate a fireplace. :)
I really need some more wallspace!
http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/
It's super cheap, as in, the cost of supplies for your printer. Perhaps not as finished-looking as these awesome images!