Ourcollection of artwork at McGee & Co. is thoughtfully designed and curated to make your space feel truly beautiful. We love styling artwork in each room of the home to bring extra warmth and personality to a space. Whether you want to add texture, color, movement, or expression to a room, the right piece can make an entire look come to life. From abstracts to landscapes, drawings to photography this selection of artwork allows your spaces to feel composed and collected.
Each piece in the McGee & Co. artwork collection is mounted and framed with gallery-quality materials that not only elevate the presentation of the artwork but enhance your design with elegance and refinement. Find an abstract piece created through our collaboration with a master artist or find a mixed material decorative piece with depth of both texture and tone. Bring a romantic feel to a room with an impressionist-inspired landscape or a beautiful photograph. Sketches and drawings add a creative and artistic feel to a space with either their minimalist or highly detailed compositions.
Whether styling a piece of artwork alone in a room or stacking artwork in pairs, consider how the size of the piece and the style of frame will impact the entire look. Either styling choice is a great way to make a statement, bring character to a vignette, or fill empty space. Leaning artwork on a countertop, on a built-in shelf, or on a console or dresser can be a fun and practical alternative to hanging artwork. Leaning and layering artwork brings an eclectic and lived-in feeling to a space. Every space in your home presents a new and exciting challenge to personalize and add visual balance with artwork. Each detail adds unique charm to your home, allowing it to feel as curated and refined as it is beautiful and inviting.
Founded in London in 2011, Artfinder is an online marketplace for original pieces of art from around the globe. The site sorts its offerings by both style and medium, making it easy to browse the more than 200,000 pieces (including abstract paintings, sculpture, photography, collage, and digital art), all of which are signed by the artist. Prices start at $24 and can go up to over $3000. The site also has dedicated services for interior designers purchasing cool artwork for its clients.
The goal of 20x200 is to provide art for everyone. The 1,000 editions the site has produced so far range from $24 to $10,000, and each is produced exclusively for 20x200. The company also wants customers to be passionate and knowledgeable about the art it receives, so every print or photo ships with documentation about the work, and the site announces each new launch with an informative write-up on the artist and project.
Our favorite Danish furniture business also dabbles in the arts. The picks tend to skew bold and colorful, and there are often solid sales happening so you can score a deal. There may not be a ton of options, but each one feels really special and will quickly become your favorite piece of home.
Target has lovely curations of cool art, including quirky, boho picks from Opalhouse and geometric, abstract, and modern artwork from Project 62. Framed or unframed, with matting or without, sets or single pieces, Target has it all.
Palomarin Decor is a gem of a small business with a unique selection of cottage, coastal, cabin, and island artwork. Notably, Palomarin Decor strives to be as eco-friendly as possible, and all its fine art prints are made using green-certified fine art paper.
Wall of Art is a hub for independent artists around the world. You can find work spanning Swedish artist Mathilda Boalawong Nilsson to Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist Mhi. Wall of Art shines in situations where you just need to fill some wall space with a beautiful piece of work.
You may have to dig past a few coffee enthusiast prints and run-of-the-mill line drawings, but there are some abstract gems in the mix at Opposite Wall. The subjects hit a wide range: fashion shoot outtakes, city maps, geometric patterns, font spotlights, and much more.
With a wide variety of original artworks available to purchase across a diverse set of mediums, Uprise Art is easily one of your best options to begin investing in your art collection. While some of the pieces can get pricy, the site has sections of curations available at under $800 or under $350. Uprise also offers art consultations and payments in monthly installments to make the artwork more accessible.
Inprnt features a carefully curated collection of artists. Its unique collections include everything from fine art and photo prints to graphic art and metal prints. It also offer illustrations, like this beautiful watercolor by Seattle-based artist Suzy Spooner. Inprnt prides itself on using top-of-the-line and gallery-quality materials, ensuring that the artwork will last a lifetime and never degrade over time.
As the name suggests, this online art store specializes in cool art prints that pay homage to national parks around the United States. Each poster features a vintage-style design, and is made with 100% recycled stock paper using soy-based inks. All the prints are available as both posters and canvas prints, not to mention postcards and stickers.
Nordic Peace offers a limited collection of minimalist art prints, reproductions, and curated gallery wall sets. Its collection includes graphic art, photography, and word art. In addition to wall art, Nordic Peace also offers a variety of creative, artistic home decor (vases, trays, mirrors, and rugs), and accessories (including phone cases, jewelry, and slippers).
They are rastered images so you might have to go to Object>Flatten Transparency and choose 100% Raster you might then have to also after it is flattened select all the pieces and go back to Object>Rasterize.
You don't "flatten" things in Illustrator in the sense that you do in Photoshop. Nor should you want to. Doing that would rasterize the entire file. You are misunderstanding the meanings of every one of the commands you referenced.
Best practice when designing for full-color offset printing is to work in CMYK, but that's not to say there is anything technically "wrong" with including RGB elements; you're just effectively deciding to "trust" whatever inevitable automatic conversions from RGB to CMYK that most definitely will occur somewhere along the printing workflow.
Frankly (and I do not mean this as insulting, so don't take it that way) if you don't understand the difference between Illustrator and Photoshop any better than this, you really shouldn't be using it for cost-risk work.
From where you are right now, best advice is simply to save the file as a press-ready PDF. The resulting PDF will self-contain all the raster and vector elements. The rasterization ("flattening") of overlapping raster effects will be automatically generated by default settings. If the resulting PDF is 68MB, don't worry about it. If your printer is worried about that, find another printer.
When you say the "raster images are grossly oversampled" does this mean that the seven origianl photographs I have linked into the poster are too detailed for the purpose? I suppose I could edit them to be 300dpi at the size they will be printed at.
The second question for anything intended for conventional halftone printing (as opposed to stochastic screening, commonly used in large-format inkjets) is: What halftone screen ruling will be used? That is what determines the appropriate PPI for your raster content.
The resulting file is as simple as can be. Vector objects are vector, as they should be. No automated "flattening" of raster effects will be required downstream, because there's only one raster image, and no live raster effects are applied in Illustrator. This is slightly more work than just willy-nilly application of live raster effects in Illustrator which many designers are prone to do nowadays; but it avoids any possibility of nasty surprises such as stitching artifacts that can wreck a print job.
1. I do all Photoshop editing in RGB mode. Pixel clean-up, color- and luminance-correction, cropping, sharpening. There are more filters available in RGB mode, I find channel manipulations simpler, and I believe after over a decade working in the program that the post-corrections conversion to CMYK is infinitely more precise and faithful than years ago. After the conversion I'll deepen the black channel and be done with the images.
2. As the press-ready PDF job options will flatten your artwork, I'm not as fussy about placing a flattened image file in Illustrator as I used to be. The layered PSD image preserves last-minute change options. As for TIFF vs. PSD, while both are robust and reliable, I've not found any special advantages in the TIFF format nor any threats to health in the PSD format.
I don't follow any such global rule about in which mode to perform "all" editing.. There are color corrections possible in CMYK not possible in RGB and vice-versa. Same goes for LAB. But that opens a discussion beyond the scope of this thread.
Typically, as previously noted, EPS files are primarily used by sign companies, large format printing. I don't use EPS files in any of my ad work. Tiffs, jpegs and an occasional PDF. Sometimes PNGs but those are mostly for the web stuff.
In fall of 2012, my husband John and I were living in Chicago working really just not soul-sucking jobs. We were both in our very low twenties and figuring out what we wanted to do with our lives. I eventually accepted a job back home in California from my uncle to work at his financial planning office as his assistant.
And I just thought, this is what artists do. We have print shops where we sell things and people buy them. And this is the only way artists can make money. My view of art and making money was very limited because I had no art, design, or business experience whatsoever.
There were so many mistakes that I made along the way with printing, recoloring my artwork, and choosing the wrong paper. But I learned from those mistakes and slowly bootstrapped my way to a successful and fully booked stationery career.
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