A great holiday gift for the baseball enthusiast in your family, Sky Box Sport Scenes murals add interest and character to dens, offices, children’s bedrooms - and are ideal backdrops for lively sports bars and restaurants. Sky Box produces high-quality officially-licensed reproductions of game-day photography from high above the fields home to baseball’s most known and loved teams.

Murals are available in either 4 x 6 foot or 8 x 12 foot dimensions and are UV and fade-resistant.  Sky Box products are available at retailers nationwide, or customers may contact Sky Box directly.

Shown here, clockwise from top left: (1) Pittsburgh Pirates, PNC Park (2) Chicago White Sox, US Cellular Field™, 2005 World Series (3) Boston Red Sox, Fenway Park™ 2007 World Series (4) New York Yankees, Yankee Stadium.

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Effective immediately, OMNOVA Solutions is accepting post-use fabric backed vinyl wallcoverings, regardless of the original manufacturer. OMNOVA will recycle the vinyl back into new wallcoverings that feature RECORE^TM recycled wall technology and into other products for the design and construction industry. In addition to vinyl, OMNOVA’s reclamation program will accept non-PVC commercial wallcoverings which feature ECORE^TM Advanced Wall Technology.

The process is easy. When building owners, architects or designers select new wallcoverings from OMNOVA Solutions, including wallcoverings from its well-known Avant, Bolta, Essex, Genon, Scion and Tower brands, they can turn in wallcoverings that have been removed, as well as construction scrap, to OMNOVA’s Wallcovering Reclamation Program. Working through OMNOVA’s network of wallcovering distribution partners, architects and designers can use the program to earn valuable Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) credits for renovation and construction projects.

As the largest manufacturer of contract wallcoverings, and a global supplier to the interiors industry, OMNOVA Solutions is committed to reducing the environmental impact of its operations and products. OMNOVA’s emphasis on developing environmentally-focused products and services is demonstrated through the new Wallcovering Reclamation Program, as well as product technologies such as RECORE, which features 30% recycled content, and ECORE, a “no compromise” PVC alternative technology introduced in 2007 through OMNOVA’s AVANT and Scion wallcovering brands. OMNOVA’s commitment to environmentally responsible practices in the manufacturing of commercial wallcoverings includes the use of water-based inks, scrap reduction and recycling programs, and reductions in the energy required for production. Additionally, OMNOVA was the first wallcovering manufacturer to achieve the GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality certification.

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“We are raising the bar. We are on a mission to elevate window fashions in the minds of designers and consumers,” said Grace McNamara, president and CEO of Grace McNamara Inc., parent company of Window Fashions. “The re-design and re-naming of our product better represents what we have to offer, which is the industry vision for our readers and advertisers. We are the voice, the views, the ‘vision’ of the industry,” she said.

“There is much we in the window fashions industry can do to gain back lost market share,” McNamara said. “We must make window fashions a hot product choice in the minds of consumers and designers. Our new magazine—which is designed to be even more inspirational for designers—is part of elevating that perception.”

We are also campaigning to reach designers who don’t work with window fashions now but should, said McNamara, and who need to learn more about window fashion as a “must” design element to add to their projects.

The November edition of Vision includes an interview with designer Jamie Drake; a story on designer John Buscarello’s Park Avenue apartment makeover; a piece about high-end window fashions from the workroom perspective; the new trends report from Maison + Objet; and more.

“Throughout, the magazine will have more the look and feel of an inspirational magazine geared to all designers and window fashion design professionals,” said Sheri O’Meara, editor. “We aim to speak to their passions and give them inspiration and information to create beautiful work for their clients. The new look and feel of the magazine speaks to and through design professionals—be they designer/decorators, workrooms, installers or manufacturers.”

The November issue will go out to a record-setting total of 85,000 readers, who will receive either the print or digital editions.

In addition to the magazine, Vision will also launch a new website, wf-vision.com, to reflect its new vision.

For more information, contact Beth Hansen, publisher, 651/762-2012.

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As an artist, Trisha Selgrath is excited by the flexibility digital printing offers. “I can add and make changes to existing styles or create lots of new ones in a relatively short amount of time,” the designer stated. In 1997, Trisha started painting a mural in her son’s room and conceived the idea for printed, die-cut, trompe l’oeil style murals. For almost two years, she painted the initial designs while her infant son slept. Then, in 1999, she and her husband, Randy, launched Imaginative Murals.

The mural catagory in the wallcovering industry has grown tremendously since its inception. Keeping up with technological advances in printing, several of the best selling designs are being reproduced digitally, allowing Trish to make updates to the murals. For example, the popular Under the Sea mural now has over 40 additional fish instead of 3. The Bay Window mural is now enhanced by 7 faux framed sea shells painted with great attention to detail. The new line called Focal Point Murals is digitally printed on EZ Up & Off wet and stick, non-woven substrate. “None of our styles have been discontinued. We have retained the quality of the detailed original and put it on a paper that will be easier for the customer to adhere, simply wet and stick, and then easily remove without tools. Plus, since it comes in 18 inch rolls, the shipping costs are lower,” said Randy Selgrath.

The third line is called Re-defined for Life and branches out from wall appliques into art prints, greeting cards and gifts. Combining art with poetry and philosophy, Re-defined for Life is uplifting and meaningful. Trisha has taken common words and redefined them in a concise, motivational way then added modern art. In a total departure from her realistic art, Trisha effectively expresses the words with bold, colorful abstracts. The artist describes her market, “ People want to surround themselves with images that make them feel good especially now in these uncertain times. Re-defined for Life is meant to inspire and encourage people to take positive action”. The art is translated into cut, wet and stick wall appliques called Inspired DecorTM and are printed on the EZ Up & Off substrate. Design possibilities abound for using the 6 art pieces and the 78 matching assorted squares that come in each roll. For this and all the designs RTZ Company, Inc. has to offer, go to www.rtzcompany.com.

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CSI will also offer an education session, “CSI GreenFormat: Review of the Construction Product Sustainability Reporting Guide Release Version.” The session is open to all conference attendees on a first-come, first-serve basis and will take place Wednesday, Nov. 19 at noon.

CSI and the Metropolitan New York Chapter will also hold a post-conference education session, 2-6pm, Friday, Nov. 21. “Incorporating LEED into Project Specifications” is for construction specifiers, designers and other team members who need to know how to integrate LEED requirements into specifications. The session will include directions for using GreenFormat in specifications.

“We are excited to release GreenFormat and will be offering educational sessions and demonstrations at our booth throughout Greenbuild,” said CSI Executive Director and CEO Walter Marlowe. “We have completed an extensive testing process with manufacturers and have received many positive comments on the new format. Those in the construction industry that rely on CSI formats and practice guidelines will find GreenFormat reliable and easy to use, and a real benefit for bringing organization to the information overload that exists today.”

Developed in collaboration with CSI member specifiers, product manufacturers, BuildingGreen, Inc. and the Charles Pankow Foundation, GreenFormat is a new web-based CSI format that provides a standardized framework for identifying the sustainable properties of building products. Designers, constructors and building managers will be able to use GreenFormat to find basic information about products to help meet ‘green’ requirements.

Product listings in GreenFormat are organized by MasterFormat divisions in a spec-friendly layout. The format’s categories focus on topics that are important to design and product selection decisions. To enter products into the database, building product manufacturers complete an online questionnaire that collects sustainable information about their products. Data from the completed questionnaires is then displayed in a standardized manner to ease sustainable design decision-making.

More than 100 manufacturers already participate in GreenFormat. CSI is offering manufacturers a FREE account and product listing on GreenFormat if they sign up by Jan. 1, 2009.

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Designer Given Campbell invites designers and homeoweners place in-stock and custom orders through 12-31-2008 and receive a 35% discount.  Even those unsure which wallpaper design or color to choose can take advantage of this offer — place an advance purchase order for the coverage you need, and take all of 2009 to select the perfect pattern.  Visit the Sale page at www.givencampbell.com for details and online ordering.

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The newest re-stik decals by blik include a digital code allowing purchasers to digially download Skeletal Lamping, the new album by band of Montreal.  Shown above is artwork by Gemini Tactics - follow this link to go directly to the product page.

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