It has been a while since I started my search for sustainable eco-friendly frames to frame some of the awards Digital Eskimo has been awarded. After a few well-intentioned conversations with people we still didn’t have a solution. Then I got in touch with Peter Cerneaz again. Peter: “For me this is something that I have been thinking about also. Framing is dreadful in using eco-unfriendly stuff.”
As we were a bit worried about the aesthetics, Peter made us a test frame first using offcuts of frames from other jobs. Peter pieced together the offcuts and joined the glass or Perspex using silicone.
Peter had never done that before so it was a nice experiment for him as well. The result was amazingly good! Although the white frame looked really smooth, we decided to spray them black as it would go better with the white paper of the award.
We also liked the glass joined together by silicone but thought it did not really suit the formality of the awards. That said, we think it could work really well with some more arty pieces we would like to frame and you could even think about a specific line-up of the silicone lines working with the artwork framed. This could add an extra feature to the work as a whole.
Anyway, for now the awards are framed using perspex that was ordered specifically for the job – a little bit of a trade-off for this particular job.
We are very happy with the frames and I would like to see more people interested in sustainable framing. The more demand from customers, the more chance the framing business will offer more eco-friendly sustainable framing alternatives.
If you are interested in getting your items framed by Peter please visit his website or drop him a line petercerneaz [at] gmail [dot] com and let me know you heard about him from us.
