Posters: Best Sellers

About our best-seller posters

The "more best sellers" area is automatically updated based on real sales data. This allows you to see which items are the most popular, not which ones were the most popular on some undetermined date way in the past.

The data are aggregated across all poster affiliates, so what you see is statistically valid rather than something based on a small, unrepresentative sample.

A pattern we've noticed since we started selling posters back in the late 1990s is the best-sellers tend to be timeless. That is, they aren't something that nobody will care to remember a year from now. Instead, people are buying these:

• To commemorate something special.
• So they have a classic icon (e.g., Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, Mohammed Ali.)
• Because they want a fine art reproduction.
• To have on their wall an image of a famous place (e.g., Paris).

When you look at these offerings, chances are good you'll find something that appeals to you. Now, if you want to have something a little different but along the same lines as the most popular one, you can just use the navigation or the search feature to find a related poster or print.

About poster framing

When you were a kid, you probably taped posters to your wall or your door. That's got the advantage of being cheap. It has several disadvantages, however, such as:

• The tape damages any walls or doors it's stuck to.
• It ruins the poster.
• The poster tends to fall down, and often will be torn in the process.
• If you want to move the poster, you're probably going to wreck it in so doing.

That's why we recommend always framing your poster. You can order it that way, and you really should. Some people balk at the framed poster price, and just take their chances with an unframed poster. This is a mistake, and many people realize this after a while. Then they take their damaged poster to a frame shop.

The frame shop usually can't restore the poster, but can make it passable-looking. So already, you start out behind in terms of the aesthetics. On this damaged poster, you're going to spend money on matting, mounting, and framing and it's not a trivial sum.

Frame shops are great, and they can often truly enhance a poster, photo, or other framable item. But they can't work miracles. And they don't work for free.

So order that poster with a suitable frame. If you later decide to replace the poster, you can order a new poster without a frame (if the existing frame fits it) and have a frame shop mat and mount the new poster. Or, you may decide to upgrade your frame and the best way to get that done is to let the pros at a frame shop handle it for you. Many DIY framers regret "saving money" after they damaged their artwork and had to pay someone else to try to salvage it.

Protect your investment by framing it.