display – CustomCat1 https://museumtrade.org/customcat Gear & Guides, So you get it done, Beautifully Sat, 30 Jan 2016 00:54:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.7 https://museumtrade.org/customcat/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-Final_logo_512x512-32x32.png display – CustomCat1 https://museumtrade.org/customcat 32 32 84532699 One Way to Display an Exhibit Catalog without Bolting it Down https://museumtrade.org/customcat/one-way-to-display-an-exhibit-catalog-without-bolting-it-down/ https://museumtrade.org/customcat/one-way-to-display-an-exhibit-catalog-without-bolting-it-down/#respond Sun, 03 Jan 2016 23:10:38 +0000 https://museumtrade.org/customcat/?p=7148 It’s always nice to display the exhibit catalog if it’s available. It helps further contextualize the works and helps promote a product available in the store. Usually we use four pan head screws on the back cover to bolt down our catalogs (or catalogue whichever you prefer) to an angled wall ped. Recently it was simply not possible to display this way for our Al Farrow exhibit. Longer story short, we decided to make the exhibit catalog free-floating, but we didn’t want it walking off.  We could have tried a big sticker saying “Gallery Copy” on the front of an unjacketed copy, but we had very few of these catalogs and didn’t want to take the chance.

We decided to bulk up the catalog a bit, making it permanently flat, but wanted to avoid adding too much weight. A 3/4″ piece of MDF would simply be to heavy for most people to enjoy. We went with a 1/4″ piece of MDF that was painted the same as the rest of the cases. IMG_1022We left a 1/4″ border on three sides and a full inch along the top where we put the words “Catalogue Available in Store.” IMG_1020This catalog holder would reside on either a bench or window sill and we didn’t want the paint making either, so we put two 1/4″ x 1″ runners along the bottom and left them unpainted. They were also strategically placed so as to give us more depth on the pan head screws we used to anchor the catalog to the holder. Additionally, the runners raise the main board up so the user can more easily get their fingers underneath. That’s it. So far it has stayed put.  What do you do for your unanchored catalogs?IMG_1021

]]> https://museumtrade.org/customcat/one-way-to-display-an-exhibit-catalog-without-bolting-it-down/feed/ 0 7148 Simple Museum Mount for Hanging Kimono https://museumtrade.org/customcat/simple-museum-mount-for-hanging-kimono/ https://museumtrade.org/customcat/simple-museum-mount-for-hanging-kimono/#respond Sat, 11 Apr 2015 23:10:02 +0000 https://museumtrade.org/customcat/?p=5006 Hello Again, I’ve brought you some pictures of a simple mount for hanging our kimonos. It’s a 2″ round, 53″ long piece of clear plexiglass. On either end you see a single small hole drill 2″ in from the end of the tube. These holes go over L screws that just screw into the wall. This may be obvious, but be sure that the holes are drilled in line with each other or it won’t go on the wall correctly or evenly. You can hang the object at this point and in many cases you’d be fine, but notice the red coated wire. This has been very handy for pushing the collar of the garment into the correct presentable position. The metal will bend and hold its position while the plastic coating parents the metal from coming in contact with the object.

ご幸運を祈ります。

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