instaglam

An elegant interior designer client brought in this lovely project.

She had gone around her client's home and taken instagrams of the little touches and details that made their space unique.  

Instagram is now so ubiquitous that I have framed them in a variety of ways all ready.  But then she came in and we did them up in a grand style I had unforeseen.

2 mats of neutral but different colors.  Bottom layer has 6 openings with elongated spacing.  Top layer is raised for depth.

raised mat detail

A burnished gold wide leaf-motif frame and museum glass complete the look.  These will hang on either side of a door in her client's entry.

instagram!

I'd like to take a moment now to talk about something really important:  instagram!

Passyunk Ave Balcony by Adam Wallacavage

Instagram is a free iphone app that very easily puts a variety of retro effects on iphone photos and just as easily outputs them to your flickr, twitter, facebook, and email, and also shares them with your instagram friends & followers.

So, I recently figured out that the shop's ipod can instagram and the world unfurled before me.  People are REALLY into this app.  The images it creates are perfect little stylized squares--little romanticized glimpses at our lives with the suggested permanence of an analog photo.  They really are very precious.

Many interesting ways to display instagram photos have sprung up.  Sure you can show them in a free online gallery, but if you prefer a hard copy to display in you home you can print them as a poster like this:

image via printstagram

and then frame them up like this:

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or do a collage wall like this:

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or try something like this:

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where images are held onto a magnetic surface in a frame!  Images can be easily switched out and rotated.  Instagrams are now easily transferred to magnets!

Not an iphone person but love the effects?  Here is the closest thing I've found to it online and it's free!  Click here.