Friday Favorites are my weekly wrap-up of the cool happenings going on around Imagekind over the past week. This week we launched “images not for sale.” Also, don’t forget, from now until September 21, you can get 20% off custom framing. Cheers!

Images Not for Sale

This week we released images not for sale. Now, artists can upload their artwork that they would like to showcase, but not offer for sale. Some reasons artists might want to choose the “not for sale option” include:

1. Show off commission works
2. Display works in progress
3. Example images
4. Work to showcase on other sites
5. etc.

For full details, including a video on how to setup your images for display only (not for sale), check out the forum post announcement.

20% off Custom Framing

Great news! In celebration of Fall, Now through September 21, you can get 20% off custom framing at Imagekind. If you’re an artist, now is the perfect time to let your shoppers know of the discount.

Friday Favorites are my weekly wrap-up of the cool happenings going on around Imagekind over the past week. This week saw some very exciting things including new top navigation and a kickin’ promo for free shipping. We’d love to hear what you think about the updates!

New Top Nav Header

We’ve made some significant updates in our top navigation (the Buy, Sell, Create and Community tabs). It’s pretty clear to see the changes and all the great benefits. We are sure this will help with overall navigation, making browsing of the site much more efficient.

Now you can easily see all the different options for buying, selling, and creating art right from the navigation bar. I think it’s pretty cool. What about you?

Get Free Shipping at Imagekind!

Check it out! Now through August 31st, 2009 you can get free shipping at Imagekind! Simply enter promo code BACKTOSCHOOL09 at checkout.

For full details, see the newsletter announcement here.

Friday Favorites are my weekly recap of some of the amazing things going on around Imagekind. I love hearing about what Imagekind members are up to and this week is no different! Check out below to see how you can have the chance to meet up with prominent Imagekind artists who are truly utilizing the web to bring their artwork to the masses. Also, check out a very helpful blog post written inspired by our own Imagekind artist on tips and ideas to help you sell your artwork on Imagekind. Lastly, take a look at the kind of coverage some of our artists’ work is getting around the web!

They Digg Your Art!

Last week I wrote a post for Digital Photography School on 20 Beautiful Examples of Urban Decay Photography featuring some of our top Imagekind artists in the field. It was such a hit that it reached the number one spot on Digg for the Arts and Lifestyle category! It really took off!

If you’re a digg user, give it a read through and digg it if you feel so inclined. Thanks!

Create Live Seattle

Prominent artists and Imagekind members Natasha Wescoat and David Hoang are coming to Seattle next Saturday, August 29! In conjunction with their event Create Live Seattle, Natasha and David will be creating art  live while they stream, chat, tweet, answer questions and hang out with other Seattle artists at Bedlam Coffee. Here’s what they say about the event:

The rules at a CreateLive event are simple. If you have something creative that you are working on, bring it and work along side our featured artists. If you want to come and just hang out, by all means, you are more than welcome! Come, have fun, create, hang out, eat, drink, whatever. Be Awesome!

I plan on going. So if you’re in the Seattle area and want to meet up with Natasha and David, make sure to stop by! If you’re not in the area, no worries! You can keep up with what’s going on live. Follow the action via Twitter: #createliveseattle and follow the host: Brent Spore. You can see all the details on the Create Live Seattle website.

Helpful Imagekind Overview and Selling Tips

Art marketing blogger Cory Huff put together a fantastic post the other day on tips for selling artwork on Imagekind. After talking with Imagekind artist Tim Aldridge and Leyl Black, Cory was able to put together some top tips for selling your art prints on Imagekind. Cory covers very helpful tips and ideas on how to increase your sales. Some of the highlights include how to promote your artwork, Imagekind marketing tools, the importance of tagging, and more.

You can read the full blog post here.

Quick note, Cory does suggest to add the colors of your artwork as tags (such as tagging your art with “red” “blue” etc.) in order for it to show in the Color Picker. Though it is a good suggestion to tag your work with the prominent colors, it is not necessary for it to show in the Color Picker as it pulls the promiment colors from the image automatically, regardless of the tags.

Friday Favorites are my weekly recap of some of the amazing things going on around Imagekind. I love hearing about what Imagekind member are up to. This week, a few Imagekind artists got some nice coverage in a couple of online articles and were cool enough to share with me. Take a look!

John Kraft in Digital Paint Magazine

John Kraft, the ever-busy San Fransisco-based artist was recently interviewed in Digital Paint Magazine, a new publication for marketing and art. In the interview, John discusses not only his background (quite interesting!), artistic style and technique, but also highlights some of his various marketing initiatives. He even mentions why he’s chosen to sell on Imagekind and how he uses the service to fulfill his orders!

John’s main advice? It’s all about awareness, connections and conversations. You can read the entire magazine online and see John’s interview starting on page nine. It’s in .pdf format, so you’ll need to have Adobe Reader installed.

Congrats John on the great feature and outstanding interview!

John Kraft in Digital Paint Magazine

Winston D. Munnings in Orchids Magazine

Winston D. Munnings, who was once a Diplomat, even achieving the title of Consul General for the Bahamas, is also an avid flower photographer. One of his specialties are orchids. Two of Munnings’ orchid shots, along with a brief biography and insight into his technique, were recently featured in the August 2009 edition of Orchids Magazine, one of the leading publications on the flower.

You can see the two shots and read about his artistic techniques in the Orchids excerpt he sent me here.

Orchid (Dendrobium spectabile) by Winston D. Munnings

It’s Friday! And on Fridays, I share some of my Friday Favorites. This week, Imagekind artist Rob Dobi released 9 new killer designs in his fullbleed 9 series. You can buy fullbleed series 9 prints right from Rob’s fullbleed Imagekind Storefront.  Check it out!

fullbleed Series 9

Rob Dobi, premier artist and t-shirt designer whose client list includes notables such as Warner Brothers, Urban Outfitters, Atlantic Records and many more, released his newest series of fullbleed designs on Monday July 27. His loyal fan base continues to grow with each new ironic illustration and compelling conceptual design he releases; propelling him to become one of the most popular independent designers around. In addition to “[drawing] pictures and [making] t-shirts” he’s also a really good photographer.

You can see all fullbleed series 9 prints in Rob’s fullbleed Imagekind store. Also below. For fullbleed t-shirts, check out fullbleed.org for more info.

Mind the Gap - Fullbleed 9 by Rob Dobi

Color Theory - Fullbleed 9 by Rob Dobi

Shoot for the Moon - Fullbleed 9 by Rob Dobi

Disasterpiece - Fullbleed 9 by Rob Dobi

Time Flies - Fullbleed 9 by Rob Dobi

Nail in the Coffin - Fullbleed 9 by Rob Dobi

Curtain Call - Fullbleed 9 by Rob Dobi

Art is Hard - Fullbleed 9 by Rob Dobi

Vicious Cycle - Fullbleed 9 by Rob Dobi