plexiglass – CustomCat1 https://museumtrade.org/customcat Gear & Guides, So you get it done, Beautifully Mon, 01 Aug 2022 15:17:05 +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 plexiglass – CustomCat1 https://museumtrade.org/customcat 32 32 84532699 How We Made a Label a Little More Accessible to Read https://museumtrade.org/customcat/how-we-made-a-label-a-little-more-accessible-to-read/ https://museumtrade.org/customcat/how-we-made-a-label-a-little-more-accessible-to-read/#respond Mon, 01 Aug 2022 13:16:07 +0000 https://museumtrade.org/customcat/?p=14262 Label placement can be tough sometimes. Have you ever had to change its color or redesign the layout because you realized that there wasn’t room for the label or that it was just not in a logical spot? we had this instance where a nearby perpendicular wall was going to work ok for our new Betty Woodman installation. It was just slightly less than ideal. We have these bent pieces of plexiglass we use for cases that are not near walls. They give the labels a little kick up toward the viewer’s eye. We took one of those and put it on its edge to kick out in a new direction. This is a brand new innovation and it happened today. See what you think.

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For refernece, the plex is 5.5″(face) x 8.25″(wide) x 3″ (return). The widest opening betwen the front and back is 1″. The holes are not the same. The front are 3/8″ so we can get our drill with extension bit in. The back hole is 1/4″ so a pan head screweasily catches the plex and doesn’t pass through. I suppose they could both be 3/8″, but it would be sloppier.

]]> https://museumtrade.org/customcat/how-we-made-a-label-a-little-more-accessible-to-read/feed/ 0 14262 Options for Installing a Label on a Pedestal or Case https://museumtrade.org/customcat/options-for-installing-a-label-on-a-pedestal-or-case/ https://museumtrade.org/customcat/options-for-installing-a-label-on-a-pedestal-or-case/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2015 17:00:00 +0000 https://museumtrade.org/customcat/options-for-installing-a-label-on-a-pedestal/ Here are a few option for installing labels on pedestals.  It can be difficult to read a label when there is a lot of extended text.  So we put them on a plexiglass slant.  In one case the gallery gets more beat up for some reason, so we have plea covers made.  They aren’t as elegant, but they do the trick.  Do you have another technique, please post!

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