2008 Adobe® Design Achievement Awards

The 2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards gives higher education students from around the world the creative license to propel their careers in the future. Enter in 12 categories in 3 media areas endorsed by the industry, over 60$K US in cash prizes will be awarded in New York City.

Submissions close May 2, 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

Blue curly tree -greeting card by jordanka

The Artist’s Marketing and Action Plan Workbook (Paperback)
by Jonathan Talbot (Author), Geoffrey Howard (Author)

This book has been written to help you become more skilled at the art of selling your art. It is a workbook, a book to write in. It will guide you through the process of learning how to sell your art and how to make money doing it!

The making of art and the selling of art are essentially different. For most of us, artmaking is intensely personal and private. Only when we are finished are we willing to share what we have done. Selling art is, on the other hand, a social activity in which we need to interact with the world outside our studios. This book provides a vocabulary and structure for that interaction.

When you have finished doing the exercises in this book, you will have a personalized, step-by-step marketing and action plan for selling your work.

Welcome to the age of the instapreneur. With nothing more than a design, amateurs can manufacture jewelry, robots, T-shirts, furniture — anything. No warehouses. No minimum orders. And no money down. The digital economy isn’t just digital; the same market forces that allowed midlist musicians to make a living distributing their songs online now give amateur clothiers the chance to sell their wares without having to persuade Barney’s buyers to carry them.

A Good quick read on WIRED.com about what we creatives at Redbubble, Zazzle are all about, well some of us (i know i am!). The new style of business, entrepreneur, etc.

• Read the full article here : Manufacture and Sell Anything — in Minutes

Finally the kings of the graphic team, Adobe has released an ONLINE Photoshop! Yes you can edit, crop and do a few important handy things to your images there like adjusting exposure, white balance or hue, touch ups or distort. Just released this week is the Adobe Photoshop Express, where registration is free and once you are a member, you can upload your images to your gallery (you get 2 gigabytes of space FREE for your images). Read the rest of this entry »

For those making things in Zazzle, here are templates in PNG and PSD (photoshop) for the various products they have. The links was found today whilst i was reading the Zazzle forum (many things about zazzle can be found there, if you havent visited the forum yet)

• Guidefiles (download the templates) HERE
• Image size charts (details of all measurements and tips) HERE

Received an email tonight from HP (Hewlett Packard) announcing the Let Your Creativity Flow / Lend Whitley a Hand competition. Whitley is an Australian music artist, and you can listen to the music and also more about the competiton on his MySpace page Very cool comp, where you can win the HP Pavilion HDX 9216TX Dragon.

There’s three catergories of creativity ;

1. Design a Whitley Tour T-Shirt,
2. Review the Whitley single and the third catergory,
3. Record a Demo to join Whitley’s Tour. Read the rest of this entry »
   

Join the modern photography book movement. Photographers can now produce books with complete creative control. We’re celebrating the most innovative and finest self-published photography books and the people behind them. Submit yours for a chance at $25,000 to finish - or start - that once in a lifetime project.

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$4 Off Shirts! Celebrate Spring offer!

$4 discount applied to orders of one or more qualifying apparel items (any style from the Mens, Womens, Kids and Baby categories). Read the rest of this entry »

Zazzle has done another good thang! I found this happy news when reading thru the Zazzle Blog today..

 We can now say goodbye to the eye strain, goodbye to slightly irregular designs, and goodbye to micro-mouse attempts at non-attainable perfection. Introducing the align dialog! Read the rest of this entry »