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Wall Gardens

Spring has sprung and it’s time to work your green thumbs!

It’s a strange sensation sure, but the urge to garden in early spring is almost primal and re-connecting with the earth is affirming, renewing, and promising. However, waking up your garden to a new growing season isn’t just all about soil and seedlings, the rite of spring is a tonic to the gardener as well. Living plants cleanse the air around the home and are attractive on the eyes, making for a happier, healthier home in an instant.

“Vertical gardening is an innovative, effortless, and highly productive growing system that uses bottom-up and top-down supports for a wide variety of plants in both small and large garden spaces.” – Derek Fell, author Vertical Gardening: Grow Up, Not Out for More Vegetables & Flowers in Much Less Space.

Designed more specifically for urban areas where space is often limited, vertical gardens are an amazing addition to any home, as a beautiful feature that’s incredibly easy to install and manage.

 

Here’s all the reasons you’ll ever need to get started on your very own vertical garden this Spring:

1. To maximise a limited amount of garden space.

2. To use as a privacy screen, disguising unwanted views or perhaps creating distance from nosey neighbours.

3. To increase garden accessibility; Saving your back from strain and making it easier to fertilise, prune, water, or harvest.

4. To nurture healthier plants. By having them off the ground, this improves air circulation and leads to less pest & disease problems.

5. To enhance your home’s visual appeal by adding character, variety, structure and colour. Create attention and ready admiration from planting your garden at eye level.

6. To increase crop yield and plant production. Some vegetables like pumpkins that grow on vines and take up a lot of personal space, and instead can be trained to grow up and over a trellis in a very compact space.

7. To reduce the visual impact of an urban environment and define a space. Vertical gardens are perfect to soften stark building surfaces by camouflaging them with living greenery and help to create a stunning backdrop/boundary that provides a sense of seclusion.

8. To create a micro-climate which acts as a natural shield to the elements and can insulate a building (from heat, air pollution or noise), as well as help to regulate temperature by cooling and shading an area. “A layer of vegetation can reduce heat loss from buildings, cutting the wind chill factor by 75% and heating demand by 25%.” – Centre for Sustainable Development at the University of Cambridge.

9. To improve air quality, health and happiness. Research has revealed that plants improve both indoor and outdoor air quality by removing harmful VOCs (volatile organic compounds) and absorbing pollutants. Plus they look pretty, just saying.

Check out wallgarden.com.au for more information. And give us a call at Commex to order your wall garden pots. Remember, we’re open Saturday Mornings!

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Wall treatments

Wall treatments - wall paper, cut out lettering, 3D letters, shapes, reception signage

Understanding that the environment around you can have profound effects on both your mood and behaviour, our experienced sign-writers and designers use their skills in wallpapering, painting, and traditional hand lettering brushwork to help bring your brand to life. As a workplace you want your staff to feel proud and your clients to feel excited. Wall treatments help do this by making a space more attractive to the eye. Often, we also use these kinds of wall treatments to create a greater emphasis on installed signage, via using contrasting or complementary images, colours etc.

Wall treatments add a wonderful touch of life to any workplace or home and stimulate our senses dynamically to change the way we feel, as well as giving our eyes a guiding hand to notice subtle branding cues.

Wall Treatments: Wall Paper, Cut Out Lettering, 3D Letters & Shapes, Reception Signage, Painting, Traditional Hand Lettering, Brush Work

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Window Treatments

Window Treatments - cut out lettering, frosted treatments, tinting

Glass is one of the most versatile materials used in the building industry today. As a cladding, glass is waterproof, light and easy to install and, as an office partitioning, it provides effective semi-permanent walling. Glass is also the perfect substrate for decorative film.

A window treatment is an interior decorating element placed on, in, around or over a window. Frosting is a great option for creating a sense of privacy without compromising on light. It can be used to mark the transition from public to private space, to give your clients a sense of safety while providing subtle branding messages. With one-way vision effects, window frosting can also be used to create some privacy for work spaces such as offices and meeting rooms. More than simple white, frosting can be coloured to create visual interest or be used in conjunction with full colour graphics.

Our goal of providing professional window treatment is to install design pieces and elements which help enhance the aesthetics of the window itself and the room it’s a part of. From simple frosted glass panels that give privacy to businesses, to elaborate precision cut designs that create ambience and character, we have a window film solution for all your glass panels.

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Custom Manufacturing

Custom Manufacturing - acrylic bending, timber work, POS displays, M4M displays

Our vast range of custom manufacturing options lets us vary any of our products to your suit specific standards. Sometimes this even means creating something entirely bespoke and completely new, such as point of sale displays that double as both functional business utilities and as advertising materials.

With special talents in acrylic bending and timber work coupled with their vast knowledge of materials and experience in the unusual, our amazing signwriters can tailor a product right down to the customs, tastes, or usage of an individual client.

Custom Manufacturing:  acrylic bending, timber work, POS displays, M4M displays

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Architectural

Architectural - Public and corporate artwork, decorative screens, privacy screens, finishing boards

Architectural

Our ability for architectural fabrication is broad and covers our work on public and corporate artwork installation, decorative and privacy screening, and textile finishing boards to name a few.

Our architecturally-designed screens can be used in both domestic and commercial works for a huge range of applications including privacy screening, architectural fascias, entry gates, decorative screening plus much more. Outdoor decorative screens have become increasingly popular additions to Queensland homes recently as they allow us to make the most of our beautiful-yet-unpredictable climate, year round. And, it’s also the ideal way to add your own outdoor room to your home, allowing you to bask in the light and lush scenery of the great outdoors while enjoying the privacy and comforts of indoors.

Although finishing boards are mainly used for displaying samples of carpet, tile, wood flooring, shingles and more throughout the tiling and flooring industry, their application can be farther reaching than just those two fields. Commex has been creating and implementing sample boards for years and with our extensive fabrication capabilities, we provide every option to make your display program a success.

Architectural , Public & corporate artwork, decorative screens, privacy screens, finishing boards

 

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Large Format Digital Printing

Large Format Printing

Commex ensures your brand stands out from the crowd with high-quality cost-efficient signage. Our highly experienced team use the latest production equipment and software to create a diverse quality range of digitally printed signage such as large billboard banners, retail displays, point of sale signage, and multi-colour illuminated effects.

Highlight your company’s unique marketing message with our tailored and fully integrated signage solutions.  With a range of innovative options such as acrylic, wood and metal fabrication, vinyl work, wall papers, banners, and corflute or LED signage, our team will evaluate your project to find what material and design will suit your brand and also have the strongest impact on your client.

We offer a full service large format department including pre-press, production and installation, with our finishing services include sewing, laminating, eyeleting, gluing, welding, mounting, taping and much more. Whether you are a boutique business or a national corporation, we will ensure your corporate message is specifically tailored to attract your target customer, first time and every time.

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Picture Framing

Picture Framing - mounting, block-mounting, corporate images, certificates, gallery

Picture Framing

As picture framing specialists, Commex Concepts can add the finishing touches to your posters, certificates, photos and paintings while delivering quality workmanship, excellent customer service, and a guarantee on all our work.

We all know there’s no better way of bringing a room to life than by hanging a piece of artwork or family photograph and at Commex we offer you the very best of picture framing with competitive cost-effective solutions for all your framing needs. We treat your pieces with the utmost of care and our approach to framing is impeccable.

Whether you’re framing or mounting your favourite photographs, pictures, posters, limited edition prints, or works of art, for your home or office, our expert technicians do all our work on site, which also eliminates unnecessary shipping and handling of your project (and any damage that it might cause), and minimises your turnaround time.

Know about framing, but haven’t heard of mounting before?
Aside from being a popular affordable alternative to framing, mounting offers extra depth, dimension, light weight and clean frameless appearance which is useful for many applications.

Picture Framing,  mounting, block-mounting, corporate images, certificates, gallery

 

 

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Building Signage

Building Signage

A great business with the right building signage can become a landmark, a purely visual point of reference that draws the eye and imprints it’s creativity in a person’s mind. The best building signs are part of the fabric of a city. When you invest in quality signage, your location becomes part of the community’s mental map of their neighbourhood and lets potential customers know where you are, what you do and what you have to offer. Great building signage allows your business to stand out from the crowd and give people a reason to come in. From large scale formats to simple but striking window lettering, we have options for your business and budget.

Every business needs something to inform their customers about what they provide and where to buy it. Shop signs can be a deal breaker – a customer who is on the fence about whether or not you offer a particular product or service is easily convinced by an informative shop sign. Building signage plays a role in almost every aspect of business; it can create an attraction and leave a lasting impression on your prospects.

Commex have created captivating and engaging shop signs for many types of businesses such as:

3D Signs, Workplace Safety Signs, Wayfinding/Directional Signage, Directory Boards, Shop Front Signs, Illuminated Light Box Signs, Neon & LED Signs, Pylon & For Sale Signs, Welcome & Reception Signs, and many more!

We manufacture quality signs with top of the range technology and materials, and our priority is to match your specifications as closely as possible. If you are unsure about what strategy and design to opt for, we also provide design advice in order to help you better achieve your goals. Increase visibility outside your building and improve visitor and employee experience inside your building with the perfect signage for your business.

Building Signage – big section incorporating painting, installation, maintenance, lit signage

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Vehicle and Fleet Graphics

Vehicle and Fleet Graphics

At Commex, our experienced and professional installation staff work cohesively with our designers to create vehicle and fleet graphics that help your business spread its message and take advantage of branding opportunities in your community.

Whether you’re a Fortune 500 company, or a small business with a handful of employees, it’s important to design a marketing budget that takes advantage of cost-effective advertising. Vehicle and Fleet graphics are an amazing way to improve the appearance of your fleet while doubling as an easy and affordable avenue for advertising.

Visually creative and made of the highest quality, our graphics and wraps are designed to last, and they’ll also protect your fleet from the general wear and tear of the road. A billboard advertisement is a static image and will cost you money every month it’s displayed. Whereas, a well-designed fleet graphic can turn your business’s vehicles into ‘versatile billboards’ that cost incredibly little to maintain, and work even while you’re not.

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Traditional Signwriting

Traditional Sign-Writing

Traditional Signwriting is making a come back and on it’s way to becoming the latest trend mainly because it is permanent, easy to touch up and makes a real statement for your business brand. It’s also a classic and stylish way to give your business or home a real feeling of individuality and character.
Hand-painted lettering and decoration suits many applications where modern, computer generated lettering and graphics are not appropriate, such as vintage vehicles, period houses, traditional shops, or even just unusual printing surfaces. And to us, every commission is unique and designed to suit its location, context, and purpose, with flair and care.
With a deep understanding of historical methods and knowledge of period styles, combined with individuality and a strong sense of design we pride ourselves on producing top quality sign-writing work.

Traditional Signwriting – hand lettering, brushwork, chalkboard art, unusual surfaces