De/Installation

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One Way to Encourage (Demand) that Nothing is Stacked on Your Crate

You can  spray paint the message all you want, but you’ll never know, with one hundred percent...[Read More]

Adhesion Fundamentals – Tapes, Seals, Etc.

Did you know that packing tape requires pressure to fully adhere? It’s a pressure sensitu=ive ...[Read More]

How to Paint a Sun Mural for a Solar Focused Exhibit at the Children’s Museum of Richmond

Here’s a quick time-lapse about how to paint a large sun on the wall dating back to 2009. This...[Read More]

Art Packers Hot Glue Gun Caddy on the Go

We had Ship Art International here the other day to crate our Claire Falkenstein and they whipped ou...[Read More]

Rigging and Installing Richard Serra’s Delineator at MOMA

This story was covered by MOMA’s website, but I think Museum Trade is a great place to land al...[Read More]

Cy Twombly’s Very Large TREATISE ON THE VEIL Being Installed in Time-Lapse

The time-lapse format is always fun, but I think we can gain insight as well.  If you have an instal...[Read More]

Founding of Industrial Scale Fabrication of Art, Donald Lippincott was a True Pioneer

Large Scale: Lippincott Inc. by Jonathan Lippincott Before Lippincott, Inc. was founded in 1966, art...[Read More]

How Do You Do Not Touch? Here’s One Way of Making Labels and Signage to Help Visitors Understand

If you’ve seen it once, you’ve seen it a thousand times; Visitors molesting the objects ...[Read More]

How to Install Wall Mounted Shelves with a Semi-Hidden Metal Mount for Ceramic Pots

Insert copy here:           These “Design Resources” are a series of short articles inte...[Read More]

The Dinosaurs Arrive and Unload at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo

This is a fun little video and demonstrates how these creatures are wrapped and rigged.  Not as much...[Read More]

Framing Hardware Production Line

Here’s a quick image set of us getting through dozens of frames that we had to refinish.  The ...[Read More]

Building a Faux Cabaret for the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Exhibition

Here’s a quick behind the scenes look at assembling a faux cabaret for the exhibition. Much of...[Read More]

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