I was given this idea by one of the members of the software company, DMG CTRL. Instead of his projection screen just floating on a wall, he wanted to paint a frame around it so it had it’s own space when it was turned on. It’s own space and looking good at the same time. I thought this was a great idea and could be put to many different situations including the white boards that line the walls of offices and creative spaces. This white board frame could create the feeling that ideas and brainstorms put down on a white board would become works of art themselves.
So to start, I sketched out some quick ideas of what one could look like. In this case an ornate floral design. Since frames are usually symmetrical, I only sketched out one half of the frame.
I then took the idea and photoshopped it onto the wall itself to make sure I liked it.
After this, it was time to put it on the wall. So I projected it on to the wall and lightly put down some pencil lines. I didn’t want both sides to be exactly the same, so this was only to make sure it wouldn’t be completely lopsided.
Then it was time to remove the projection, turn up the music and get started. I used a non-toxic Uni-Posca paint marker to lay down the lines. Other than light pencil markings, this was a very spontaneous free hand painting. I felt it not being exact or completely symmetrical helped it be organic and alive.
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Framing Ideas
Something that I have been doing more of is framing white boards within office spaces. I feel that it captures the white board space as a creative area where some of the best ideas come together. A lot of the time the ideas are brought to this space by a collaboration of ideas. I consider this to be one of the greatest artforms. The collaborative brainstorm is something that creates some of the greatest things that end up changing lives which then changes the world.
These ideas deserve to be framed just like the greatest works of art in a gallery or museum are framed and protected.
Here is a time-lapse film showing me designing one of these frames. Unlike the others, this one had no preparation and no preliminary pencil lines were placed down. This was a spontaneous design. Just like the spontaneous ideas that fill the white boards daily.