Eco Framing

Mention our new blog - add 10% discount

2009-03-01T14:05:00.000-08:00

Special offer for readers of our new blog - add 10% to the already lower price of your framing project as our way of saying thanks for checking us out!

World Wide Archive Images at Eco Framing

2009-02-24T14:13:00.000-08:00

You can now order images from World Wide Archive for custom framing at our San Francisco studio - Through April, you will receive a 20% rebate from the on-line price applicable to your custom frame order.

World Wide Archive Galleries
http://www.eco-framing.com/products/artwork.html

New FSC Certified Paper mats

2009-02-12T07:18:00.000-08:00

Larson is going in the right direction with their new line of mat boards - they are created using PEFC certified wood sources (the worlds largest forestry certification program - more on that later) These are an alternative to 100% cotton matting, also an eco-friendly product, and to conventional papermats which are not necessarily.

Larson, has taken an active role in moving its manufacturing operations in a green direction in various manners.

Larson-Juhl is offering a Biltmore line of FSC certified Artique matboards - another first in the industry. FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) is the fastest growing forest certification system in the world. Products carrying the FSC label are independently certified to assure consumers the products come from forests that are managed to meet the social, economic and ecological needs of present and future generations.

more research to do here on the how creating mat boards with "trees" compares to using cotton as the pricing is relatively similar.

The Eco Framing Story, February 2009

2009-02-11T09:38:00.000-08:00

Conserving our Natural Resources... One frame at a time.

Its time to reinvent custom picture framing and try a new approach to an old industry. Our goal: produce high-quality gallery-level framing at lower prices, with faster turnaround and to accomplish this in the most green way possible.

First, custom framing means local labor and artistry, with custom craftsmanship, made to your specifications, combined with personal service and design consultations from well trained craftspersons.

Framing GREEN means making frames with sustainably harvested woods or even bamboo, as well as using FSC certified paper mats or ones made from 100% cotton. Naturally, the frame studio recycles everything possible, gives away scrap material to artists and schools, uses energy saving light fixtures and encourages staff to use public transportation.

While that is a great start, the crux of the problem to greening picture framing is the inefficiency of its normal design-build workflow, order management, supply chain, shipping and packaging. This is where the carbon is really burned. Most custom framing orders are highly particular small jobs - the result of a design process that may examine hundreds of samples and options that no one could keep in inventory. Therefore, numerous small special orders are generated leading to shipments of only a few sticks of moulding in a large box, or a few sheets of mat board in yet another box, leading to truck deliveries that burn fuel with stacks of packaging dispatched after use. It also means more moulding is left over as waste and eventually ends up in landfill. Add to this calculus the paperwork, order management, quality control issues and these custom orders become unnecessarily expensive projects. In this economy with downward price-pressure, that is a recipe for problems.

Eco- Framing uses a new playbook, and keeps enough moulding and mat board in stock so that most projects can be designed from materials already at our warehouse studiono shipping or special orders required. We buy in case quantities at reduced cost and extend our savings to our customers. The result is lower cost, less waste, reduced shipping and packaging and faster turnaround. Everyone wins.

Of course if you need something out of the ordinary, and dont mind waiting or paying a bit more we will gladly handle your project the conventional way. We pledge to do the work in the most carbon-neutral way possible. Although, our warehouse-style approach now gives you an option that can save money, save time and save the environment on your next custom framing project.

Eco Framing introduces Bamboo Profiles to San Francisco

2008-09-01T00:10:00.000-07:00

This profile is made using advanced lamination process in China and is made entirely of the grass from the largest giant Bamboo forest in the world. Bamboo is the fastest growing woody plant in the world. In the right climate some types of bamboo can grow up to 6ft per day, because it is a grass & NOT a tree

We are excited to offer this to the San Francisco area for custom framing, mirrors, white boards, signage and display solutions.

Eco Framing is the first custom picture framing studio dedicated to "green" best practices . We feature sustainable woods, bamboo moulding and a reinvented workflow that dramatically reduces the carbon footprint of our work.

Our services provide local businesses, designers, architects, artists, and individuals with museum-grade work at lower prices with faster turnaround. For more information please visit our website, www.eco-framing.com