Comments on: New Products?

By: Michael L.

Michael L. — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:13:05 +0000

Absolutely, no questions, you have to offer high quality post cards and/ or notecards and calendars.

The key is to have them be of the highest quality. Those items, I imagine, would be an extremely popular way to display and distribute and sell art and photography that’s worthy of the label fine artist. And really, each of those extensions are so much more accessible to people that might not want to go the full print/ framed option.

They key really, is to do it high end. For calendars, have a really good calendar section with pro design level fonts and boxes, and stylistic touches the scream quality. For the notecards, build in all the quality and textures and weight that it appears (I just discovered this site today) you already carry. My guess is these would be your most popular products right out of the shoot if done correctly and priced fairly.

BTW, Apple’s iPhoto provides some wonderful looking templates for cards and calendars. in particular, they allow small images to be use to call out a special date within the calendar.

Thanks for all the good work you already do.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:06:50 +0000

Richard’s idea of art cards is great. I am interested in both postcard style and the envelope with folded, blank inside art cards. I have bought some from the museum store long ago, but have’nt seen recently.
No site I know of sells assorted art card of either style in a choice of mix and match. I have been printing my own as gifts. This might turn out to be a popular customer option, especially if you are able to guarantee quality at a fairly low price.
I would also like the option of having a mini-masterpiece gallery. These pieces would be no larger than 8″x10″. This would give me the choice of offering some of my smaller pieces at a higher quality than cards, for example, a 6″x6″ on canvas.
Personally, I love art mugs, coasters and mousepads. It would be exciting to be able to beat cafepress both with higher quality and lower price–but maybe we can wait until you’re very established as a company.

By: Richard - Art Guy

Richard - Art Guy — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:27:43 +0000

I also like the idea of having an art book of my own images. Or even a Booklet for display at shows.

Calenders would be wonderful, I have been wanting to have them done but could never organize everything including the cash layout to have them printed.

Art Cards would also be a big plus. They could be sold in packs of a dozen with different images or all the same.

I don’t feel that Books, Calenders or Art Cards fall into the same catagory as mugs, etc. It still retains the sofistication of high end art.

But then again are we here to make money or to be snooty?!?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 04:20:06 +0000

Fine art postcards are a wonderful size for those without a lot of wallspace and are collectable. I’ve seen them in just about every museum gift shop, I’ve seen them collaged and also individually framed and hung in groups.

Not Cafe Press or Zazzle quality…..MUCH BETTER IK QUALITY INSTEAD.

By: Betty Mackey

Betty Mackey — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:16:38 +0000

This is digital art, so how about selling art screensavers? Or art for photo-displaying devices?

Also, what about video? I use a program called ProShow Gold (from Photodex) to string together still images in the “Ken Burns” manner with panning, zooming, wipes, fades, and captions. My son Al is a composer so I used ProShow Gold to make a video with my abstract digital images in motion, set to his jazzy music. Other shows feature my garden photos.

Please, as Dicci says, stay with fine art and don’t do mugs and all that.