Temporary pixels
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011Just came across a product called Pixels XL that may be ideal for some folks. It’s a bit pricey, especially if you want to make a decent sized mural, but you get a lot of great color options.
They are basically just magnets, and require you to have painted your walls with a ferric based paint/primer to allow for them to stick.
If I had the extra money, I’d cover my whole house in these. Change the design constantly. Maybe throw in some whiteboard paint here and there too.
Wooden pixels
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011Talk about some commitment to their art. 8BITWOOD cuts out thousands of pieces of wood to then have to stain them all to achieve the different shades needed to create his pixel based wooden murals. Awesome.
Here are a couple of pieces he’s made.
If you want to do something like this, Heavy Mural may help make the blue print for you to do it. One less thing to worry about!
It looks like he’ll make commissioned work as well, so if you don’t want to DIY, you can always buy one. Man, I wonder what the shipping costs of one of these is? 
Alternative to sticky-notes, part II
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009In the last post, we provided a link to Magnetic Pixels, who offers an alternative medium for Heavy Mural. They currently appear to only offer the “SUPERHERO” set, but this set has a pretty decent color palette. We’ve taken the time to grab the hex values of their color palette so you can more easily add them to your custom colors.
Top Row:
(hex value in bold, followed by count from image above)
f2ec8a x 25
d2c47b x 50
d09513 x 50
8d4c0c x 25
b3dddc x 50
5dbbba x 150
148ba3 x 125
145968 x 75
Bottom Row:
(hex value in bold, followed by count from image above)
f8beba x 50
f81822 x 175
ca0d2d x 150
740828 x 100
cccdcf x 100
9d9181 x 75
52575a x 75
201708 x 125
And remember, the Magnetic Pixel magnets are only 3/8″ square in size, as opposed to the 3″ square of standard sticky-notes. So, the conversion (I believe, but someone correct me if I am wrong) is to convert the dimensions Heavy Mural gives you into inches and then divide by 8. That should give you the size, in inches, of your mural using Magnetic Pixels.
Have fun.
Alternative to sticky-notes
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Little square colored magnets.
I just saw a neat link on Gizmodo. They are small 10mm x 10mm magnetic colored squares. I’m not sure how you can buy the additional colors they seem so show on their site, it looks like you can only purchase the “superhero” kit from them currently.
The actual marketing page for this is frames based, so I can’t link directly to the informative pages here without you losing the site navigation. But here’s the general link: http://www.magneticpixels.com/. If you visit the “About” and “Online” links in the left navigation you’ll find most of the interestng info.
This would provide a very simple way to scale your mural down if you didn’t want a wall sized mural. As well as providing some potentially more interesting colors.
-Chris