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I think that the homeowner had made them herself?

Taken from Design Sponge: "The studio houses three wall size Monopoly paintings by Catherine herself. Catherine had been playing Monopoly with her nephews, when she came up with a plan to help her fellow artists obtain studios for their artistry. While she created all the property cards for the monopoly board in life-size, (the paintings are 5’3” wide—her height—by 6’ tall, to scale of the cards), her metal sculptor friends would make the die cast pieces in statue size, and others would make the game board. At the end, Catherine had hoped to have an interactive Monopoly game and auction where all the proceeds would go towards grants for living spaces for artists, however, Wiggy Flowers took off in a whirlwind of excitement and she never had the opportunity to finish the set."

Here's the link: http://www.designspongeonline.com/2008/05/wiggy-flowers-zoom.html

Walgreens has poster sizing off any digital photo for CHEAP!

20x30" prints: 20 bux.

http://photo.walgreens.com/storepage/storePageId=Print

Now, same size canvas at Michaels runs for about 30 bucks, a few brushstrokes and that's it.

am I a terrible spoilsport if I mention copyrights?

If you try printing it just be careful when scaling something up that much--it might get pretty pixalated. If you paint it you could probably find some vinyl letters so everything stays even (and the chalk lines are a great, easily removable guide)... and I'd probably use some thin MDF or Plywood instead of stretched canvas because it's more in keeping with the slick look of the cards (and less likely to warp than solid wood).

You could totally rasterbate that. Assuming you were willing to violate copyright law. Ahem.

pvett, you go directly to jail with that comment! ;)

pvett: not at all, but I don't think of it as a problem if it's simply a one off. Meaning as long as there are no plans to mass produce and sell them it's (relatively) ok.

After seeing a Chance poster in a magazine once, I've been watching eBay for a long time...nothing ever seems to turn up.

Would copyright be an issue if i made a similar card, but with my street name on it and an a different font and colour?? How different does it have to be to make it legal?? :S

ooh, venus, cool idea. now if only i had the slightest little bit of design skill...

I did something similar to this not too long ago with one of the pictures in Jeffrey Metzner's "Stick Art" book. I took a photo of the one I wanted to make into a poster, photoshopped it up a little bit and printed it onto a transerancy. Then I used a projector to trace it onto a ready-made canvas and painted it out. It was a simple drawing, like these would be, and it came out looking great. I know I know! Copy Rights... if I sold it that would be a problem, but that's not my intention.

If you don't have a Monopoly game, Hasbro will sell cards for the game on their website for $4.99. Otherwise, you can download and print money for free (do a Google search for it)

Seems like you could take it to Kinkos and they'd blow it up & print it for you and you could mount on foam-core or plywood and hang it on the wall.

Hey metromom!! I tried using excel and creating a large PDF of the finished product!

Change fonts, cell colours and borders... I'm such a cheat. Looked good when I printed it out in A3. :) Hopefully that will help you.

Remember the luxuary tax card art spray painted onto the sidewalk ? It was brilliant. That's what I want on poster board.

i don't see why copyright law would really matter in this case, since as far as i can tell, Hasbro doesn't sell Monopoly Square posters. so it isn't like they're ripping off the game design and selling it for profit... it is making a poster to hang in their own home...

You don't need to worry about copyrights if it's just going in your livingroom...only when you're making money off of it.

Yes, you can make a copy for personal use w/o violating copyright law. But, it isn't a violation only if you are making money off of it. It is a violation even if you give it away. Crazy, I know. But The Law is a bit crazy anyway.

However, most reputable houses will not copy or print copyrighted material. In a sense, they would be making money off of the copyrighted piece. I'd use Kinkos where you can do self serve.....

I do agree that a simple enlargement will be too pixelated to use.

Is homage fair use?

Someone has a couple to sell here:

http://www.monopolycollector.com/zmonopoly.html

it's only a copyright violation if someone else has hotels on it.

copyright is not an issue unless you plan to sell these prints

the poster is really cool. i like the idea of making a poster of the luxury tax card or creating one of my own using my street name.

Can anyone think of a way to do it on a mirror??
It might look psuedo sexy that way.

Scan a monopoly card and vectorize in a program like Illustrator to avoid the pixilated look. After doing this you can literally blow up a simple image to ANY size. Change the background or font color to avoid copyright issues at Kinkos or choose a less well known image. (I'm working on a similar project using a 1960's deck of French Mille Bournes cards, which nobody has recognized so far), then mount the poster using spray glue on 3/8" thick fiber board (pre-paint the edges). Some businesses (like U Frame It) will mount a poster for you on fiber board and include a UV/water protecting film over the image.

That is a vintage card. You can find vintage game sets (bingo cards, anyone!?) at estate sales, or ebay, and the like. I have a set that is close to the same era as the card pictured...and I suspect you could just take it to Kinko's and have it poster-ized...then mount it with some spray adhesive on foam core. Doubt it's a big copyright violation if you own the game, anyway.

Pixelation problem: DON'T USE RASTER IMAGES (scanned, .jpgs, etc), just use vectorized images and every line will be perfectly sharp every time.

Copyright problem: The whole "monopoly game" idea has been in legal problems MANY times; I don't really know that a piece of art (as long as it's completely your own) would give you legal battles, but there's gotta be MUCH cooler, funnier, whimsical and over all BETTER things to put on your wall if anyone's gonna bitch about it.

I was lucky enough to find a vintage framed Boardwalk Deed graphic this week. You can see it here.

I have both of these prints (Boardwalk & Park Place) framed. Let me know if you still need them. They are in excellent condition. Thanks!