Getting a diploma framed? With custom school name on matting?

December 6, 2014 9:39 PM

My google searches are yielding nothing. Where is the best place to get a nice, not super expensive, diploma frame. It's for a small college, so it needs to be somewhere than can do a custom embossing of a school name on a frame mat if I input the name when I purchase it. Anybody know of something like this? Thanks!
posted by skjønn to Shopping (3 answers total)

Did you check Josten's? They have a awful lot of very small schools on their list so it might be an option.
posted by metahawk at 10:24 PM on December 6, 2014 [1 favorite]

The school's bookstore probably carries a few options.
posted by rinosaur at 4:44 AM on December 7, 2014 [2 favorites]

I do licensing approvals for a university. You may have trouble finding a service that will do this as a one-off, custom job, because it's a category that many schools already offer in their bookstores, and even putting the name of the school on a piece that is for sale should trigger the need for a license. As mentioned above, Josten's is probably your best online option since they have existing agreements.

There are countless options, however, if you want to just frame it with a thick mat in a color like black or one of the school's colors. Many craft store will offer this service, though in my experience custom framing things, it ain't cheap.
posted by moviehawk at 5:29 AM on December 7, 2014