"What patterns and designs are most likely to affect photo framing in 2013?
In 2012 the push towards natural lumbers was acquiring momentum with a strong swing to the simpler lines of Danish or Scandanavian inspired furnishings. This pattern is set to continue with photo frame makers and providers selecting the clean natural lines of raw wood veneers and incomplete natural hardwoods.
All wood photo frames used to be completed in some way either by staining and varnishing or by the application of paint or wax.
The series of what seems to be incomplete frame moldings continues to blow up with a bigger number of combinations of raw lumbers combined with raw veneered or perhaps cross-cut ply design veneers similar to the early Arquarti mouldings of the early eighties but with a coarser natural look using some unique woods integrated with manufactured artificial veneers. Well not completely synthetic, however more a thin shaved veneer of a previously laminated timber like birch or beech.
When these frames first started to appear on the market I thought you were supposed to use a finish to safeguard the wood however people kept requesting for increasingly more natural raw timber frames without any finish. I'm not sure where the trend was established however some providers are calling their varieties ""Nordic"" or ""Uber Nordic""
I believe they have a more oriental background with the impact from the beautiful natural timber frames that are found in Japan.
Multiculturalism has definitely and securely implanted itself into the world of the photo frame.
In Australia we are seeing an unmatched increase in paintings obtained when holidaying or travelling overseas. Whether or not this is due to the impacts of a strong Australian dollar or just the fact that Australians appear figured out to cross countries off their bucket lists. This pattern is well intrenched with a variety of native art works being presented for framing.
The more critical visitor is looking for locally inspired ""real"" artwork instead of the limitless stream of copies or ""Hong-Kong"" design oils of the past. Obviously there are still various oil painting on canvas, whether topical scenes from the nation being visited or blatant copies of Western paintings, being provided at framing shops all over the nation.
The numbers of works coming from Egypt appears to stay strong with many customers stating they have just gone to or they went to before the problems.
Photography tourism is alive and well with some of our finest major beginners fronting up with shots from Iran or Burma.
It appears that the enthusiastic traveler is desiring to display more and more of their travel pictures and not remarkably, memorabilia.
The development in memorabilia framing in extremely strong.
Sure the football jerseys and other signed professional sports souvenirs my be reducing somewhat especially with the cloud over biking that has actually now been totally exposed by confessing sport's stars on popular tv shows, like Oprah, but the trend in framing items is still strong and will stay so.
I remember when I talked with Vivian Kistler about the variety that framers needed to be taking way back in the late nineties. Vivian was completely behind framers establishing the service of item framing.
She stated to me ""David, go out and discover all the things individuals have collected for many years, their model trains, tin toys from their childhood and trinkets from their journeys and get busy framing them with style and flair"".
Vivian had it right.
Her insights have actually ended up being the truth of today.
Now, some twenty years later, the object frame, shadow-box frame, whatever you wish to call it, is still one of the most rewarding areas to target as a customized framer both from the point of a sound business decision but more significantly from among job satisfaction.
I forecast the increase in the range of deeper frame profiles to accommodate the increasing demand for personalized memory boxes.
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Objects must be framed at the local framer.
Worldwide trends in photo framing are always influenced by the affluent among us.
Individuals who can afford to both show their wealth and take pleasure in the satisfaction that quality photo framing brings.
As China, India and the next wave of brand-new middle class emerges they will be requiring greater quality and much better finished decoration items, frames included.
In the West, as economies recuperate, the less affluent will again begin to spend some of their hard-earned cash on enhancing their lifestyles. The modern custom needs to position themselves all set for the revival of the daily consumer who desires that little bit of high-end that a quality photo frame manages.
I don't think the West will see a huge development in just framed decorator posters since the general splashing of money for this year's fashionable posters is long gone as consumers continue to conserve for retirement or a rainy day.
People will still frame things that inspire them, enhance their social status or include to their psychological wellness. Image framing in 2013 will start to see the recovery that will sweep the world as the next wave of people get in the innovative age that contemporary society is cultivating. As individuals become increasingly utilized in imaginative industries their standard of living need to rise with the worlds that they are producing. Image framing will track that rise.
I'm uncertain in which type or what design will be the most popular in state 2020 however one thing is for particular, it will be a frame around something that somebody is emotionally connected to."