Artistic.ly (@artistic_ly) Twitter Competition

We giving away 5 free framed prints (worth £125 (US $200) with free worldwide shipping) from the Artistic.ly launch collection as part of a Twitter competition running on @artistic_ly.

The product is absolutely fantastic, making for a terrific Christmas gift:

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All you need to do to enter is either Retweet our competition Tweet or become a New Follower. 

The draw will take place LIVE on Twitter at 5pm today, GMT.

The excitment is building to fever pitch.

And for all those interested in these kinds of thing, we will be doing a post afterwards outlining all the results from the competition, helping to provide any insight into its value/worth as a marketing tool.

Artistic.ly Submissions Process

The dust is finally settling after our launch party and we are now receiving a healthy number of requests from illustrators and artists wishing to join the community.

This is brilliant and really exciting for us. In terms of the submissions process, at the moment we aren't opening things up for full 'self-service' so I thought it would be useful to provide some further details for anyone interested in applying.

Step 1: Send an email, expressing an interest in being part of our community. Fire over portfolio links and images.

Step 2: We will visit your site and have a good old sniff around.

Step 3: If we like your work we will drop you an email saying: "We really like your work"

Then, there are a few additional steps. 

  1. Provide (by email) up to 5 images that you think would make fantastic, beautiful or interesting pieces of wall art. NB Framed wall prints are the only product we are currently interested in supporting, which might restrict some of your work or require specific tailoring of existing work.
  2. Please state whether images are exclusive for our use as wall art/prints. Exclusive content is prioritised. We do not mind whether the work is available on other media, etc...and you obviously retain all rights.
  3. We will then make a final selection from submission and say: "Yes, we love this, this and this".
  4. We will then send instructions in terms of how to prepare the files for our print purposes. 

Apologies if this is all a bit of a pain.

We want to grow the site steadily and would really love to hear from anyone interesting in being part of what we are up to.

Artistic.ly launch party

Artistic.ly was launched to the world with a private viewing at Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London on 17th November. It was great to see so many of our foundation artists in attendance, and we hope everyone that came had as much fun as we did!

Check out some photos of preparing the gallery, and from the night itself, below.

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Setting up the gallery

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Artistic.ly product specs finally sorted

We knew the type of product we wanted to offer through Artistic.ly and we knew the kind of cost price we needed to hit.

We've been successful with one part of this and not very successful with the other.

In the end we've decided to increase the quality of just about every aspect of our products and this has had a profound increase in our product buy prices. Ultimately, we think it's worth making the extra investment and sacrificing our margins to ensure that each customer is completely delighted with what they receive.

Nick has spent a huge amount of time with our suppliers perfecting every aspect of the product, ensuring our consumers will be completely blown away with the quality we are offering at the prices we are proposing. Both have done a fantastic job and here are some detail shots from the final samples

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In terms of the specifics, here's the final lowdown:
Fine Art Paper: 310gsm German etching papers from Hahnemühle. Yeah, we know there are loads of cheaper alternatives ..... but this textured, bright-white paper delivers incredible colour matching with long-lasting, vivid colours. You need it in your lives.
Inks: Archival ink designed to resist fading and weathering for at least 80+ years.
Mount: All prints are dry mounted to ensure the perfect position with no warping or ripples.
Frame mouldings: All prints come with the choice of either a beautiful black or white frame. The frames are extremely simple and elegant with strong corners and a smooth, consistent finish.
Framing technique: Each print is beautifully framed with a black or white solid wood moulding in a gallery style, with deep fillets to separate the print from the glass.
Protective glazing: We are using modern coated glaze which provides extremely low levels of reflection in the majority of lighting conditions.
Deboss: Every print is debossed with the Artistic.ly seal to guarantee authenticity.
Hand-numbering: Each edition is hand-numbered using silver ink.
Size: We are only offering a single size of 50x70cm (approximately 27.5x20 inches). With the frame, the overall dimensions are 528mm x 728mm x 32mm.
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You should know that the kit completely rocks.

Final Artistic.ly Group Show Artists

We've worked through all the submissions and now are able to announce our final foundation artists that will all have work at our group show:

Abigail Read, Alex Williamson, Alvaro Tapia Hidalgo, Ana Botezatu, Andrew Groves, Andrew Rae, Andy Rementer, Anthony Peters, Antoine Corbineau, Destroy & Rebuild NYC, Georgia Perry, Heather Landis, Ian Stevenson, Jason Groves, Jes Hunt, Jesse Treece, Jock Mooney, Joe Rogers, Karin Akesson, Kathryn Macnaughton, Lee Ford, Lesley Barnes, Luke Best, Lyndon Hayes, Malika Favre, Michelle Thompson, Miles Donovan, Monsieur Cabinet, Mudchicken, Oliver Wiegner, Patch Keyes, Patrick Thomas, Paul Tebbott, Penny Davenport, Popcorny, Readers Wives Collective, Richard Kenworthy, Robbies Brown Shoes, Simon Tozer, Simon Wild, Spencer Wilson, Susie Wright, Ulrika Andersson, Ulrike Beck, Valeriya Volkova.