Wall art
Custom wall art that is about somebody
Most wall art is decoration: a shape, a colour, a landscape nobody has visited. A wanted poster is the rarer kind — art with a subject the household knows personally. That is what makes it survive a redecoration. This page is about the decorating decisions: where it goes, what frames it, and how to build a set that looks deliberate rather than accidental.
Instant download
One file, printed at whatever size the wall needs.
- 300 DPI PDF and PNG, no watermark
- Reprint it when the frame or the room changes
- Unlimited prints, personal-use licence
- Free watermarked preview before you pay
Optional add-on
Museum-grade cotton, shipped in 3–5 business days.
Cotton stock has a texture a home printer cannot reach, which matters if the poster is going somewhere permanent and well lit. Sizes are in the formats guide.
Compare the formatsWhere it actually belongs
A personalized poster is a conversation piece, so it works best where people pause. Above a sofa it competes with the television; in a corridor or a stairwell it owns the space it is in.
Hallway
Narrow, badly lit, and the first thing guests see. A single dark poster at eye level fixes all three.
Home office
The only room where being wanted for your work habits is genuinely funny eight hours a day.
Kitchen or bar corner
Steam and grease are the enemy; keep it off the cooking wall and near the drinks instead.
Stairwell
Made for a series. Three or four posters climbing with the steps read as a set, not clutter.
Guest room
Low stakes, high reward. Nobody redecorates a guest room, so the poster stays for years.
Games or TV room
Where a sepia halftone competes with nothing and the joke has an audience.
Hanging height and spacing, the two rules worth following
Centre the poster at roughly 145 cm from the floor — gallery height, which is the eye level of a standing adult. The single most common domestic mistake is hanging art too high, and it is more obvious with a poster whose subject is a face.
For a group, keep the gaps between frames tight and equal: 5 to 8 cm reads as one object, 20 cm reads as three unrelated things on a wall. A row of identical frames at the same height beats a scattered arrangement in almost every room, and it is far more forgiving when you add a fourth poster later.
Building a set that holds together
Sets work when one variable stays constant. Pick one and keep it: same household, same team, same year, same crime pattern. Four housemates each wanted for a different domestic offence is a set. Four unrelated people is a pile.
- Same frame, same size. Variation belongs in the posters, not the mounts.
- Same reward format. If one says $500 and the next says "a firm handshake", the joke fragments.
- Different crimes, same register. All affectionate, or all absurd. Mixing tones is what makes a wall feel unfinished.
Wording for each person is easier to plan from the name, crime and reward guide than improvising, and the concept gallery is useful for keeping six posters distinct. The pricing for multiple files is explained on the download page.
Why it survives on a wall
The palette does a lot of the work. Aged paper, sepia and near-black sit comfortably beside wood, brick, white plaster and almost any book spine, which is why the poster does not date the way a bright graphic print does. And because it is a document rather than a decoration, its presence has a reason: someone in this house is wanted, and everybody who walks past knows why.
If you are choosing a size for a specific wall, the sizes guide maps dimensions to viewing distance, and the A1 page covers what happens when a poster becomes the whole wall.
Wall art questions
Does a wanted poster really work as wall art?
It works for the same reason band posters and old maps do: strong contrast, a limited palette and a clear focal point. The sepia halftone reads as a print rather than a photograph, so it hangs comfortably next to anything that is not glossy.
What frame suits it?
Thin black, raw oak or unfinished pine. The poster already carries heavy ornament in its typography, so an ornate frame ends up competing with it.
Do I need to buy a print to have wall art?
No. The $4.95 download prints to any size you can find a printer for, and the licence covers unlimited prints, so you can reprint it when a frame changes or the paper yellows.
How many posters make a set?
Three is the smallest number that reads as deliberate, and it works best when the posters share a subject: one household, one team, one family. Below three it looks like a single joke, above six the wall starts shouting.
Make the piece, then find it a wall
Free watermarked preview to hold up against the room, then the clean 300 DPI file for $4.95.
Make the artwork — $4.95