Earlier this month we blogged Lucas' Keep Calm Screen Prints. AT's good friend Enrique bought one and then had a mat cut so that it would fit an IKEA RIBBA frame (which is no longer on the website or we'd link to it). Here it is -- it looks fantastic!
(We also noticed that the prints are sold out, but there are three new colors now available. Check out the Keep-Calm website to learn more.)
Thanks for posting Enrique's framing solution -- we bought the poster in plum, and it has been awaiting the proper presentation. This will be perfect.
Wow - looks great in green. I had only seen it in red before.
I've now seen this more times this week than I saw that "like totally forever" or something like that poster that was on the cover of Domino a few months ago. It's cute though. I like the sentiment and the irony!
Great stuff... such a satirical homage to life!
Wonderful poster and Barter Books from the original listing looks great. On the (beautiful) screen silk posters site, exclaiming that they were to 'prepare the public for invasion' reads a little cosy, to me.
It just misses recognising that the posters were about enduring the Blitz and subsequent attacks from the air.
(Including the constant heavy bombing for 75 nights (bar one); averaged, it may be said that Londoners were threatened once every 36 hours for over 5 years.)
To miss this means that 'prepare for invasion' suggests acceptance and its fair to say that most people reading the original would have died before they accepted invasion by the Nazis calmly and many, many ordinary people reading the original just plain died. If they were prepared it was for the fight and whatever it took.
I read the poster and it both makes me smile AND I feel lucky. I don't think my Nana would like to have it on the wall even if she could see why I want it on mine. My Grandad might well be proud of it. (But still wouldnt want it on the wall). He was in the RAF during the Battle of Britain
And isnt it marvellous that we can now care what colour it comes in - and I do. To hang the poster, which IS sold as
'a tribute', can be ironic now... (in some places )
Reads a bit worthy and humourless this for a GREAT poster (and cant you just imagine some of the silent and not-so responses at the time!)
The frame is on IKEA's website--I just looked. Good news for those who like that look :) And it's about 30 dollars (if I'm remembering correctly). You need to live by an IKEA though because they don't sell it online, only through their stores.
Is there an easy way to frame it yourself with the mat? I don't want to have to pay a frame shop just to cut a mat and stick it in the frame. Is there an easy way for someone with no experience to do the look and make it look professional?