Project specs

Here are the specs for the project:

• the frieze is planned to be 8" tall, and very wide (see diagram for all measurements)

• it will be digitally output and laminated to a rigid but lightweight support (gator board, or something along those lines); it would be convenient if the panels could be the full length of each section of the wall (which would be about 9 feet long at most; the longest stretch of wall is 18 feet, and we are anticipating breaking this into two or more sections)

• the lamination process should protect the surface against moisture/abrasion (to accommodate possible cleaning by the hospital), and also hopefully help protect against fading from light (note that there is no natural sunlight in this room); it should be a fairly matte surface so that there is no glare reflecting off of it

• we will be mounting the frieze panels with velcro (staple one half of velcro to the wall, fix the other half to the back of the artwork), or some other system that allows easily installation and easy removal (to facilitate future painting/renovations by the hospital); we need to ensure that the panels are lightweight (so that the mounting system does not require any structural strengthening of the walls) and that they are rigid, so that they will not warp over time and pull away from the wall

• the frieze is currently composed of several digital Photoshop files, each 8" tall, and about 60" wide, at 300 pixels/inch; they can be supplied to the printer in whatever file format and resolution is required

• the free-floating bubbles will be printed and mounted in the same manner as the frieze; ideally they would be each individually cut (laser cut?), because we would like to have varying sizes and shapes of bubbles; this would depend on price (would it be considerably cheaper to have only a few standard sizes/shapes, which would be die-cut?)

• there may also be life-size figures blowing/catching bubbles, again printed and mounted in the same manner

• if it will be possible to individually cut all components, we will likely have some frieze panels that have bubbles 'breaking' through the edge of the frame, resulting in shapes that are not perfect rectangles