"Mad Men" original signed script
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tedh
SPFG, Supreme Picture Framing God
Never seen anything like it. Very cool.
Copley gray?
Narrative! Narrative!
Copley gray?
Narrative! Narrative!
Twin2
SGF, Supreme Grumble Framer
This is really interesting. Please do give us some details on how you did this.
justawhitemat
CGF, Certified Grumble Framer
Wow, too cool! I love the composition. I too am curious how you did it.
Kirstie
PFG, Picture Framing God
Totally awesome. This is one project that actually deserves that accolade. PLEASE tell us more about the project and how you did this.
O.K.
This project was designed and built by my employer, Alan Abeyta.
Those in the PPFA might know him.
He is a true artist, he is left handed and has many ideas that I think come from the other side of the brain.
I am more of the draftsman, MacGyver and I am right handed so we work together to sometimes find solutions to some of the crazy stuff that we get to frame. Alan has about 25 years of framing experience and I have about 47 and it's a good mix.
It started out like this....
Concentric ovals cut on the Wizard and then cut to fit in the frame at various different levels.
The little man was cut out of mat board and attached on 2 levels.
The concentric ovals were attached at different levels using white matboard "props" bent to an oval shape to match the top oval and used in a "T" shape to hold the top gray oval at the proper level.
You can just see the white mat board "t-prop" if you look carefully in the upper left corner of this pic...
The mats were just glued together "carefully" as they weren't touching anything except other mats.
The rest is just a black shadow box moulding and the script was encapsulated and attached.
We probably didn't charge enough for this but sometimes the doing and learning is worth it.
We have recently framed a World of Warcraft signed blade server in a shadow box with a float made out of scrap circuit boards.
A flintlock pistol from the 1700's that was found underwater in the Florida Keys that was in about 15 pieces and I pieced it together after some research.
A whale Baleen, the 7 dwarfs, a Bob Dylan signed guitar, and now we just got in peacock feathers to frame and a pizza box from Chicago that will be shadow boxed using a tie-dyed fabric like we used on the Dylan guitar.
You can't make this stuff up....
This project was designed and built by my employer, Alan Abeyta.
Those in the PPFA might know him.
He is a true artist, he is left handed and has many ideas that I think come from the other side of the brain.
I am more of the draftsman, MacGyver and I am right handed so we work together to sometimes find solutions to some of the crazy stuff that we get to frame. Alan has about 25 years of framing experience and I have about 47 and it's a good mix.
It started out like this....
Concentric ovals cut on the Wizard and then cut to fit in the frame at various different levels.
The little man was cut out of mat board and attached on 2 levels.
The concentric ovals were attached at different levels using white matboard "props" bent to an oval shape to match the top oval and used in a "T" shape to hold the top gray oval at the proper level.
You can just see the white mat board "t-prop" if you look carefully in the upper left corner of this pic...
The mats were just glued together "carefully" as they weren't touching anything except other mats.
The rest is just a black shadow box moulding and the script was encapsulated and attached.
We probably didn't charge enough for this but sometimes the doing and learning is worth it.
We have recently framed a World of Warcraft signed blade server in a shadow box with a float made out of scrap circuit boards.
A flintlock pistol from the 1700's that was found underwater in the Florida Keys that was in about 15 pieces and I pieced it together after some research.
A whale Baleen, the 7 dwarfs, a Bob Dylan signed guitar, and now we just got in peacock feathers to frame and a pizza box from Chicago that will be shadow boxed using a tie-dyed fabric like we used on the Dylan guitar.
You can't make this stuff up....
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Kirstie
PFG, Picture Framing God
You guys should be entering and winning design contests for this level of imagination and execution.
Kirstie
PFG, Picture Framing God
You guys should be entering and winning design contests for this level of imagination and execution.
Actually, Alan has won a number of PPFA contests and we have the ribbons on display in the shop.
He is the former Arizona PPFA president and is still a consultant for the PPFA education committee.
He helped to run the MCPF tests at Las Vegas earlier this year.
I loaned out my C+H Advantage Pro mat cutter to be used in the tests.
I am kind of a PPFA lurker.
I design, build, cut and join, help customers, help teach the "young ones".
Often a project will come in and Alan will take it and run with it or I will do the same from beginning to end and sometimes we both work together and spit-ball ideas to get a good result.
I have done just about everything in framing and I still do it every day, but I like to keep a low profile.
Just as an aside, I wanted to put the "little man" in the Mad Men frame on a spring so he could jump around like a bobble head doll.
It's probably a good thing that I was over ruled...
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Myrna
CGF, Certified Grumble Framer
What I love about this design is the level at which the epitome of Mad Men is expressed. What a lasting, wonderful design, creative and simple yet says it all!
Kirstie
PFG, Picture Framing God
I know. I can just hear the music when look at this.
That is a fantastic layout, you just know that everyone who sees it goes "wow!"
Dave
SPFG, Supreme Picture Framing God
Wow!
