Canvas Press recently did a project of large scale canvases with float frames for Lanx, a medical device company out of Colorado that designs spinal implants. They sent in dozens of beautiful wildlife shots to spruce up their blank new walls, and they knew that photos on canvas in float frames was just the look they wanted.

Executive Assistant Renee Bohlen, in charge of the project, shared the details with us. “We recently consolidated our offices into one space and had no art on the walls.  The office was drab and was bringing the office morale down.  As we are a Colorado company, management had the idea of employees submitting their own Colorado nature themed photos.  We picked the favorites and had them enlarged and framed to decorate the walls…

The colors really livened up the office and people are excited to have their pictures displayed.  We plan to do another round of photo submissions to fill in some of the remaining empty spaces. Our thought is down the road we will auction off some of the favorite pieces, donate the money to charity and then replace them with new submitted photos.  This was a very successful and meaningful project for the employees.”

Soon they’ll post name plates next to each piece that explain who took the picture, where it was and the title of the piece named by the photographer. This gives the employees a great sense of participation and recognition by their company. The skill and quality of the photographs are professional-grade. As an artform, photography is very technical (when you want it to be) and we’ve seen many customers who work in hi-tech industries that take amazing photos and really bring their creative side out by printing with us. It is great to see a company rewarding employees for their talent, Lanx sounds like a wonderful place to work!

If you have an office with boring, empty walls share this idea with your management and give us a call. Canvas Press can help you create a positive working environment that allows everyone to participate by printing their photos on canvas.

Having fun in the office on April Fools.

Name: Wesley

Job:Sales

Experience: Engineering and Manufacturing Management, Technical Sales

Favorite Canvas Press Order: Black and White of my son, Logan

Funniest on-the-job Story: Shortly after leaving Freescale, I went to have lunch with an old friend at Whole Foods. After discussing my new opportunity with Canvas Press, suddenly Kristin and I were being paraded through the Whole Foods offices downtown, and we were introduced to some folks working on the office décor. My first sales call happened before I actually started working the new job!

Favorite Color:Bright Yellow!

Dream Vacation: Fishing and camping deep in the Alaskan wilderness. With a guide.

Pets: Gus, adorable dog and faithful friend to Logan and Skye. Siamese cats Toby and Phoebe.

Music: Shinedown and 30 Seconds to Mars

Reads: Favorite book is Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield. More recently Outliers by Malcom Gladwell was fascinating.

Last Movie Watched: Gran Torino – funny and a bit sad, but definitely worth watching

Guilty Pleasure: Sharing a bottle of wine and cooking a big meal!

On a Saturday I can be found: Playing tennis, running, and then undoing it all with a plate of wings at Plucker’s!

2009 Resolution: Try a new career outside of Freescale! And lose 20 pounds. Doing great on the first resolution – going backwards on the latter…

Name: Cassie

Job: Online Marketing

Experience: M.A. Advertising The University of Texas at Austin

Favorite Canvas Press Order: The 50+ piece order we did for UT, of course. Hook ‘Em

Funniest on-the-job Story: I vote Caroline’s story.

Favorite Color: Olive Green

Dream Vacation: Dubai & Japan as well as the Victoria Albert Museum in England. My minor is the history of fashion so any costume museum will do.

Pets: My boxer Mabel Rose

Music: Elton John

Reads: Click, The Social Network Business Plan: 18 Strategies That Will Create Great Wealth

Last Movie You Watched: The Reader – Kate Winslet is AMAZING. The moral implications presented in the film are hard to get out of your head. I am still thinking about it.

Guilty Pleasure: All things B Spears, celeb gossip sites, romance novels

On a Saturday, I can be found: landscaping my backyard

2009 Resolution: To see how long I could go without buying clothes. I lasted 2.5 months until I needed sweaters for an Angel Fire, NM ski trip.

Name: Caroline

Job: Operations – I handle the day-to-day business, customer service, image formatting & printing, sometimes even a little shipping.        

Experience: I have a degree in photography from St. Edwards University. I’ve worked as an assistant for several wedding & portrait photographers in Austin. Now I own my own photography business.

Favorite Canvas Press Order: There is a woman who travels the world with her husband. They always take a cute photo together in front of something iconic where they are. She then has them printed in black and white with red text saying the place and year. She’s ordered at least 10 canvases so far in varying sizes. I can only imagine how neat they all look together and I can’t wait for the next order to see where they have been!

Funniest on-the-job Story: I was the last one out and closing the shop by myself. I went to shut the loading dock door which is suspended about 20 feed in the air. I reached for the rope but it was not there. I looked up and it was neatly wrappe din a loop on the latch – also 20 feet in the air. I’m 5’3″….. looking at even our tallest ladder makes me uneasy. After moments of wondering what on earth I was going to do I called Renee – to chastise her for her superwoman strength – she had flung the door and rope so high. After a good laugh she told me to use one of the long stretcher bars to knock the rope down. Fortunately it worked!!!

Favorite Color: Green

Dream Vacation: Around the world trip/cruise – I’d like to see every continent, of course photographing it all.

Pets: An orange tabby cat, Rudy

Music: I am a huge Bon Jovi fan. I almost died when we got an order for 55 canvases of the band.

Reads: Why couldn’t I answer this a few months ago when I was reading something intellectual like Garcia-Marquez? Now I’m into James Patterson, one of the Women’s Murder Club books.

Last Movie You Watched: W. I finally got around to seeing it and really enjoyed it. Not too negative, not too positive – pretty good job Olive Stone.

Guilty Pleasure: Crime dramas – I could spend a whole day watching Law & Order, NCIS, Bones, etc.

On a Saturday, I can be found: vegging out

2009 Resolution: The clichés – lose weight, get in shape, get organized

Name: Travis

Job: Stretcher Extraordinaire

Experience: Commissioned portraitist and muralist, freelance artist

Favorite Canvas Press Order: Any personal shot, landscapes from around the world, not the stock images of sunsets or what-have-you

Funniest on-the-job Story: We were busy, maybe with the 50 piece Bon Jovi order when the most obtrusive and deafening alarm went off. It sounded like a giant cricket had found a megaphone and was standing right next to my ear. When we made sure we weren’t in any danger, we continued on Bon Jovi for about an hour all the while being berated by the vicious cricket.

Favorite Color: Ultramarine blue

Dream Vacation: I want to become nomadic and explore the entire globe.

Pets: The most adorable Bichon named Finley.

Music: My Morning Jacket & Modest Mouse

Reads: Just finished a Hyruki Morakami novel and started The Gift by Lewis Hyde.

Last Movie You Watched: Religulous

Guilty Pleasure: Mocha, hot or cold, double, single, day or night

On a Saturday, I can be found: In my makeshift studio also known as my bedroom.

2009 Resolution: Go with the flow and if it’s not flowing the way I want it to, changing the flow.

Canvas Press CEOs Doak and Jenny Walker are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Autumn Lael Walker. Autumn arrived after much anticipation at 2:01pm on March 3, 2009 weighing 8lbs. 7ozs. She already has her dad singing The Temptations 1965 hit “My Girl”. We wonder how long it will take her to learn to stretch a canvas. Hmm…..