Travel the World with Printed Space

Our World Map mural was used recently in this inspiring photoshoot for Ideal Home. Printed Space was featured in their Travel the World article, for which the wallpaper created an impressive backdrop.
There is something about looking at a world map that I find addictive. We are surrounded with them here at Printed Space, in the form of wall murals, canvas prints and printed flooring - either on screen having artwork tweaks; on our printers; spread across the quality control room or being packaged up for shipping to customers around the world - so its a good job we admire the maps so much! We have been producing the world map wallpaper and other map products for over 5 years now, and I never tire of perusing the countries and oceans, often slipping into a daydream of future travels :)

Our World Map printed wallpapers are available in different styles and colours. The map featured here is our Executive World Map (copyright Maps International) and is available to buy online here
All our maps can be produced to fit any size wall, floor or window space, alternatively, set sizes are available to buy from our website.

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Stylist : Sarita Sharma
Photographer : Dominic Blackmore

Street Map Style

Did any of you spot the Street Map wallpaper we printed for the BBC One series 'DIY SOS: The Big Build' to help transform the home of a family in Dartford. You can still watch it here for the next 5 days :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b013938w/DIY_SOS_The_Big_Build_Dartford/

The son is Autistic, and the design team thought that this A-Z map of his local area would be a great feature in his room so he could visualize where his mum was when she was out at work by following the roads, and also he could see where his school, and other family members and friends lived.

We converted the standard A-Z map colours to a more subtle blue and pale green colour scheme to suit the interior decor more.

We then printed it onto our very durable Classic textured wallpaper, ideal for children's playrooms and bedrooms.

We can print your area of the UK using A-Z mapping, to fit any size wall. Map murals create a perfect feature wall for any room in your home, but street map wallpaper is also extremely popular for schools, offices, estate and letting agents for example. We can convert the colours to match your current decor too.

You can see more examples of our map wallpapers here :
http://www.printedspace.com/coloured_map_installs.aspx

Free Art @ Forbo Flooring Showroom

24th - 26th May 2011, London
As you are wandering around Clerkenwell Design Week - Look down!! You will notice our pavement graphics featuring amazing art by a wide range of artists and designers.

Come to the Forbo Flooring showroom (79 St Johns Street, EC1M) during Clerkenwell Design Week and choose your favourite piece of art to take away with you!

The art is printed onto Floorink - a pioneering new way to bring your floors to life; combining the endless design possibilities of digital printing with a hard wearing contract vinyl product, with all the usual features you'd expect from a Forbo floor, such as a 10 year wear layer guarantee and non-slip properties to make it unique in the market. Floorink is available in 2m and 4m widths which can be fitted together so your image fills the whole floor area.

Perfect for any flooring project, whether it be in a residential or commercial environment, you'll bring a completely new dimension to your space.

Floorink offers unlimited possibilities for specifiers, contractors and designers looking for something different, to create unique and inspiring flooring designs using illustrations, high-resolution photography, maps or abstract designs. Your own photographs, designs or branding can be used to create your printed to order vinyl cushion floor, to fit any size floor space. If you have an idea but don't have a suitable image, the Printed Space team will source one for you, or choose a design or mapping data from their licensed image bank.

Win a Floor - Designed by You

During next week's Clerkenwell Design Week, visitors to the Forbo showroom on St John Street will have the opportunity to win their own Floorink installation, as Forbo is giving away a bespoke floor for the winner's home, produced to their own design. Simply register details at the showroom during the Design Week to be in with a chance of winning.

Developed by interior specialists Printed Space in partnership with Forbo, Floorink presents a dramatic and bespoke opportunity to create one off flooring designs. Combining unique state-of-the-art digital printing capabilities with a durable, commercial grade vinyl, Floorink offers designers free reign to flex their creative muscles.

Any high resolution photograph, illustration, vector art; even paintings, can be reproduced onto the 4m (13ft) wide vinyl cushion floor. Floorink comes with a 10 year wear guarantee.

The winner will be the first card drawn on Friday 27th May 2011. Look forward to seeing you in the showroom between 24th - 26th May!!

Art on Floors Exhibition

Next Week in London (24th - 26th May 2011), an exciting new exhibition;
Art on Floors

Clerkenwell Design Week is a three day festival in London's creative heart. Big design names and thought leaders host an exciting programme of workshops, presentations, exhibitions and debates. The festival will be filled with music, installations, parties and entertainment, truly celebrating design within this cultural hub. In 2010 London's design community flocked to Clerkenwell over the three days, with 18000 registered and over 150 events, 2011 promises to be even bigger and better!

Printed Space will be exhibiting Floorink at Forbo's EC1 showroom at Clerkenwell Design Week. We'll be there for three days from 10am til 4pm. To register for your FREE tickets, visit www.clerkenwelldesignweek.com/register

More than 100 pieces of mini-art by up-and-coming artists and designers will be on display, all of them produced using Forbo's new revolutionary printed vinyl product: Floorink. Samples of the designs will be available, meaning visitors will be able to take their favourite piece of mini-art home with them.

Visitors to the showroom on St John Street will also have the opportunity to win their own Floorink installation, as Forbo is giving away a bespoke floor for the winner's home, produced to their own design. Simply register details at the showroom during the design week to be in with a chance of winning.

Developed by interior specialists Printed Space in partnership with Forbo, Floorink presents a dramatic and bespoke opportunity to create one off flooring designs. Combining unique state-of-the-art digital printing capabilities with a durable, commercial grade vinyl, Floorink offers designers free reign to flex their creative muscles.

On Location with Floorink

The last few weeks have been a whirlwind of photoshoots for Floorink, our printed cushion vinyl flooring, in residential interiors.

The majority of Floorink projects to date have been in commercial environments, but we really wanted to showcase to Interior Designers the impact Floorink can have in their client’s homes.

The properties of Floorink really make it an ideal yet totally unique flooring solution for any room in the home.

Floorink has a soft touch and a great look. It is quiet and warm, durable, safe and healthy. It allows you to create flooring as individual as your client.

Floorink provides you with a scratch-resistant and extremely durable surface. It also gives superior protection against spillages and scuff marks. The top layer houses a unique safety feature – meaning the level of grip is not significantly reduced by spills or splashes of water or any other liquid, which means a floor for your client’s home that, is beautiful, practical and safer to walk on.

The top layer’s surface finish has a natural low gloss and allows for easy cleaning, also preventing dirt and scuffmarks. Floorink is safe for all rooms in the home, particularly children’s rooms, kitchens and bathrooms where it provides a more practical and hygienic flooring solution.

To give you an idea of the possibilities Floorink can open up to your design projects, we have photographed a range of interiors, with varied designs – all of which will be appearing on this website and Floorink’s dedicated site www.floorink.com – very shortly.

Printed Space would like to thank the following for their assistance in putting the props, locations and photography together for us :
Viva Interiors, Lancaster
Arteria, Lancaster
Majik House, Kirkby Lonsdale
The Wineyard, Bare
JayHellArt, Preston
World of Moose
Second Image Creative Photography
Art-Image Digital Photography
Edmondsons, Morecambe

Last week was a very exciting one for Printed Space as we held the first Floorink Press event.

We were joined by the editors and journalists from some of the UK's top Interior Design and Architectural magazines. We gave a presentation at Forbo Flooring's showroom at London's EC1, where a feature floor was on display along with a wall of samples for the journalists and specifiers to take away with them.

As the event was in the heart of London we kept this as the theme. We took a Blue Sky aerial image of the area around the London Eye and gave the Thames river an "Eastenders" blue filter, for the main floor section. For the sample wall, we printed the same area of London in 3 different map styles - Vintage from 1805, A-Z street mapping and 2010 aerial photography from Blue Sky World's data bank. We then layered these across the wall so all 3 styles were featured but the overall picture of London was apparent.

The main floor section will stay at the Forbo showroom for the next couple of weeks. If you are in the area feel free to pop in and have a look. Samples will be available from Donna Cummings at the showroom for you to take away.

Printed Space developed Floorink in partnership with Forbo Flooring Systems. Floorink is a revolutionary new vinyl cushion floor that will allow you to get creative with your floor space. Floorink offers a dramatic and bespoke opportunity to create one off, tailor made flooring designs for commercial and residential interiors. Floorink offers unlimited possibilities for specifiers to create unique and inspiring flooring designs using graphics, high-resolution photography, maps or logos.

Floorink has already been manufactured for many high profile clients across a range of flooring projects from well known restaurant brands, finance corporations and retail stores to educational buildings across the UK. Most recently, the RIBA Stirling Prize nominated Clapham Manor Primary School, which has an impressive A-Z street map floor design in the school’s new extension.

An unusual and unique way to add another dimension to interior projects, Floorink is still everything you would expect from a commercial floorcovering: a quality hard wearing finish, with a 10 year wear layer guarantee and non slip properties. Available in 2m and 4m widths, with worldwide delivery.

Our dedicated website www.floorink.com will be launched very soon.

We look forward to seeing you. Forbo EC1 79 St John Street Clerkenwell London EC1M 4NR Tel: 0207 553 9300 Email: EC1@forbo.com Opening Times Monday - Friday, 9am until 5pm

Vintage Wall Decoration

Printed Space's install team recently fitted our vintage map wallpaper around this Kensington staircase. The mapping data is from Cassini, and dates back to c1891. After an extensive site survey, our artwork department had to make the historical map fit precisely around all the walls and run seamlessly up the 3 flights - the staircase was a floating staircase so in parts the full 6m height of the walls could be seen.

The client also wanted some of the colours enhancing - although many customers have gone for a black and white map or with a sepia tone to add to the vintage feel.

Cassini's range of mapping data can be printed onto any of our products, but look especially striking on our wallpaper, and add a dramatic focal point when printed onto our vinyl cushion floor product - Floorink.

Cassinis maps cover the majority of the UK, just let us know the town or postcode area you want and we can email you a proof of the area with dates ranging from 1805 - 1948.

We do have a range of set sized vintage map murals and canvases to buy online for your convenience, however, we can make the maps to fit any size so please contact us with your requirements.

The vintage map canvases are a perfect gift idea for families and friends - order before Friday 17th December for delivery before the 23rd.

We have a special offer running throughout December and January - £40.00 off set sized vintage map wall murals ordered through Google Checkout - simply enter code "wallmapoffer10n" in the checkout.

Keep an eye out for one of our black and white vintage map wallpapers featured in January's issue of Ideal Home!

Wall Mural for Jamie Oliver's new restaurant

Jamie Oliver's new restarant "Barbecoa" opened last week to rave reviews. If you have been lucky enough to get a table there over the weekend or to visit the inhouse Butchers Shop, you will have noticed the funky mural we printed for the walls!

Jamie has teamed up with American chef Adam Perry Lang to create Barbecoa restaurant - a celebration of the relationship between fire and food. Design Research Studio were involved in the interior design - you can read more about the inspirations behind the interior design here : http://www.barbecoa.com/interior

The designers chose our new Pre Pasted wallpaper for ease of installation and the odourless properties of the PVC free wall covering and Latex ink technology. As the wallpaper was to be installed in a food preparation environment this aspect of our product was vital.

Throughout November and December we have an introductory offer on this more eco friendly wall mural option. We are pleased to offer over a 35% discount on the standard price - so you can have your own bespoke mural for only £25.00 per square metre. Take advantage of this discounted price before the VAT increase in the New Year.

We also have offers running on our photographic canvas prints. Buy 2 canvas prints and get a 3rd free. You can use your own photos - simply email them to info@printedspace.com and let us know the size canvas you would like. We will then give you a call back to discuss your order.

Photo Roller Blind featured on BBC's The One Show

It has been such a busy couple of weeks here I didnt get chance to update the blog with pictures of the printed roller blind we produced as a suprise for Felicity Kendal when she was a guest on BBC1's The One Show.

The producers got hold of an album she made 'back in the day' and wanted the artwork turned into a rollable display to use during the interview with her. Here's a screen shot of TV Chef James Martin watching the unrolling of the blind, and a short clip of the live programme with host Chris Evans.

Turnaround time for roller blinds is generally 10 working days - but with only 1 days notice we had to pull out all the stops to get the roller blind on set in time for rehearsals. After being let down by a third party courier - our valiant partner company Better Blinds had to jump on a train with the mechanism to make the delivery!

Printed roller blinds can be made using your own photos or artwork, alternatively our artwork team can help you find the perfect image for your interior design idea. The made to measure roller blinds can be produced up to 300cm wide and shipped worldwide. We print onto standard fabric that allows a little sunlight through or can print blackout window blinds too making them ideal for childrens bedrooms and bathrooms.

Many commercial customers use our printed roller blinds to dim out sunlight in an office or shop environment and for privacy after hours - particular if they have a window facing a busy street. For office roller blinds we can print logos, company mottos, mission statements or opening hours so they can be seen by customers from the outside, or we can print photos and designs to be seen by staff on the inside. As seen on the One Show - the roller blinds can be use as temporary rollable displays for exhibitions, schools, universities, board rooms, offices and shop floors for example when there is a Sale or Special Offers running - the blind can then be just rolled up out of the way until needed again.

If you would like any further information or advice on what would work best for your home interior design idea, or your company's office interior window displays, please contact our helpful sales team on 01524 888808.