Office wall art: printing and framing for a business's walls

A catalog picture or a picture of your business

A catalog picture solves an empty wall. It says nothing about the business, and that's fine for a corridor no client ever walks down. But in reception, in the meeting room and in the room where the client sits, the wall is part of what they see, and it can work for you.

What works there is almost always material you already have: certificates and accreditations, photos of work you've done, an old picture from the day the business opened, the product itself, or a photo of the team. A file like that gets the same treatment from us as a work of art: print material, size, molding and mat, chosen for the space.

And if you do want art or a landscape, you can bring a file you bought or have the right to use, and we'll print and frame it. We don't work from a catalog: we print and frame what you bring.

Wall art for law firms and accountants

In a professional office the wall speaks the language of official documents. Certificates, licenses and accreditations look right in a dark, restrained molding with a certain presence, with an off-white or cream mat. A molding that's too thin makes a certificate look like a printed page that got hung up. Our diploma frames page goes into the choices.

What makes the difference on an office wall is consistency. When every certificate is in the same molding, the same mat and the same outer size, even documents of different sizes look like one series, and a certificate added next year joins the row without taking it apart. Next to the certificates, one large, quiet picture (a landscape, a photo of the city, a black-and-white piece) balances the wall better than three more small ones.

Wall art for tech offices and open-plan spaces

In an open space the walls are big, the viewing distance is long, and a picture sized for a living room gets swallowed. Here the usual approach is large formats: a large stretched canvas, a panoramic print along a wall, or a series of several identical canvases instead of one picture. Our large canvas page goes into the sizing.

Many of these offices change what's on the wall often: a new campaign, a new product, an event. For a display that changes, foam board printing is usually the right choice: it's light, hangs without a frame or glass, and it's the cheapest and fastest of the options. For a wall that's meant to stay for years, canvas or a framed picture is usually the choice.

And the content can be the company's own: product photos, photos from team events, or awards and objects from along the way, set in a deep shadow box.

Pictures for a clinic and a waiting room

In a clinic the wall does two jobs at once: it shows the practitioner's accreditations, and it affects how the patient feels while waiting. The accreditations follow the same rule as a professional office, a restrained molding that is the same for every document. For the other walls, calm pictures work well: a landscape, quiet colors, a nature photo, and not too many pieces in one room.

It's also worth thinking about the surface in front of the picture. Canvas hangs without glass, so it has no glare and stays relatively light even in large sizes. In a waiting room with a lot of foot traffic, and especially children, you can choose acrylic (Perspex) instead of glass: it weighs about half as much and doesn't shatter if the picture falls, but it scratches more easily. The choice is made at the studio, against the samples. ← The clinic has a page of its own: see the clinic wall art page.

Size, spec and consistency between rooms

Before choosing a picture, measure the wall and photograph it. A picture that's too small disappears above a wide meeting table, and one that's too big weighs down a narrow wall. With a photo and measurements we can check at the studio which size will work, before anything is printed.

When an office has several rooms, the important decision isn't which picture goes in each room but which spec repeats in all of them: the same molding, the same mat shade, the same print material. That way a whole office looks like one space, even when the pictures themselves differ. A series produced in one go comes out more consistent than the same series in parts, because a wood molding of the same model can arrive in different shipments in a slightly different shade.

When it's a whole office or a series of identical units, it's already a bulk order, with a sample unit before production and a written quote. Our wholesale frames page explains how that works.

Files, quality and rights

A picture in reception gets looked at up close, so the file decides. Bring the original file at the highest quality, not a screenshot or an image that went through WhatsApp: WhatsApp compresses files automatically, and a compressed file looks soft or pixelated in a large print. Before printing a series we check the resolution and cropping of every file and send you back a list of what's fine and what needs replacing.

And something businesses forget: a picture you found online is not a picture you're allowed to print. A photo, illustration or designed quote made by someone else usually needs a license. The simple route is to use the business's own material, or a file bought from a source that sells licenses.

How to order

For a few pictures for one room: come to the studio at 3 Naftali Palatin St. in Rishon LeZion with the files or the pieces, and if you can, a photo of the wall and its measurements. We choose the material, size and frame together against the samples, and you get a quote on the spot. No appointment needed, and most single jobs are ready within two business days.

For a whole office or a large series it's better to start with a phone call with the quantity and sizes, so that when we meet the direction is already known. Businesses and institutions get a written quote before the work starts, and a proper tax invoice at the end, and for a whole-office order delivery to the office can be arranged too.