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Arts in the City of Sin - The staff at Classic Graphx love seeing the beautiful impact public art has on our neighborhoods, shaping our physical spaces, as well as our way of thinking and connecting. Brian, one of our designers at Classic Graphx has been drawing and painting lettering for the better part of the last decade and has recently started to emerge in the public art scene of the Greater Boston Area. Over the course of two weeks in July 2017,  Brian participated in the international mural festival “Beyond Walls” in Lynn, MA. He was among 20 artists from around the world to paint 15 walls in downtown Lynn as part of an effort to rejuvenate and bring people to downtown Lynn. This piece was made in collaboration with Brian’s friend Tallboy, an illustrator and designer now based in Portland, OR. This mural is located on the top of 33 Spring Street in Lynn, MA for all your viewing pleasure. We...

There are numerous options when it comes to how to bind your materials.  Luckily for you, Classic Graphx offers a full range of binding options, and more importantly has the knowledge of which binding option is right for your project!  We've put together this handy illustrated guide to help better inform our customers of their many choices of binding. Wire Binding Circular holes are punched on the bound side of document and threaded by a wire comb which is clamped down. Wire bound books lay completely flat and can be opened 360 degrees. The binding edge can take up to 1cm so design accordingly as not to obscure any content. Uses: presentations, manuals, cookbooks, journals, customized notebooks, etc.   Spiral/Coil Binding Circular holes are punched on the bound side of document and threaded by a plastic coil which is crimped on the ends. Spiral bound books lay completely flat and can be opened 360 degrees. The binding edge can take up to 1cm so design...

  An important client of Classic Graphx is Food For Free, a non-profit committed to providing food to food banks and individuals in the Cambridge environs. Their work makes a huge difference to the local community. Earlier this month, Anne Shuhler and Alison Shoemaker (from Classic Graphx) volunteered for a morning of picking and preparing vegetables in Lincoln at Food for Free’s vegetable fields! Below is Anne's entry for that memorable morning: Alison and I met at my house for a hearty breakfast at 7:30 and headed out to Lincoln by 8:00 am.   Fresh, fresh, beautiful vegetables.   Lots of beets, some lettuce, some kale, some cabbage – 173 lbs in all, picked, washed and boxed to distribute. The field is picked once a week, so hardy vegetables and hardy workers are key to a good crop. I hate to admit it, but Alison and I were wimps and had not gone the previous three very hot Wednesdays. Luckily, Food for Free has several...

It’s only three months away before my wedding, and time to start thinking about what printed materials I’ll need for the upcoming event. Just about everyone coming to the wedding is computer savvy, so it would be easy to send e-vites. But I prefer printed invitations; I like the feeling of connection - sending something tangible from my hands and knowing that it will be received into another. Here’s what I call the Three “T”s to consider before I start designing: THEME I know how important it is to have some kind of continuous and consistent theme throughout all the materials. Just like a place or product, I had to come up with “branding” for the wedding. There were two guiding thoughts when I sat down and brainstormed: the season (late spring) - and the location - (by the ocean). With those two inspirations, I googled and looked through magazines to find an image that might convey one or both of those two...