Thursday, February 09, 2006

Greeting cards, anyone?

This is for anyone who's interested :

I have a friend who's running a charitable organization for kids, where they sell greeting cards online. They want to launch their own line of unique artwork on cards this year and they're looking for work. Unfortunately you don't get paid for work you submit and they use, but they give you credit and they will post the artist's bio on their site.

This is part of the email :

As you probably know, I started a non-profit last year and we basically sell greeting cards to raise funds for smaller, but very worthy, children's charities. We started off with other vendors'/suppliers' greeting cards, but will be creating our own line this year.
We want to create a unique line of cards that cannot be produced elsewhere. The cards will be available on our website: www.justcausecards.org and we will also be trying to sell to small card shops, smaller museums and gift shops. The process from art creation to card printing will take a few months. First, we will collect artwork, then we'll conduct focus groups to determine the popularity of prints for cards and finally by the end of April, we will probably select a batch to be printed. In the meantime, I have a whole new group of website developers working to improve the existing website, a new group of business advisors and we are working very hard to make this a successful project for our children's charities.
I would really love it if you could submit any artwork to me. With the development of the new website, we will be featuring artist bios when people come to visit or choose a specific card. It would be a great opportunity for student artists to showcase their work, while also contributing to a worthy cause.
For the time being, we are mainly interested in blank, thank you and graduation cards. The art prints should probably the size of a 4x6 picture, or something that can be shrunk to that size, without becoming distorted. There requirements are not too specific--you can create any type of art from water colors to charcoal prints (as long as it is 2-D), on durable paper (like card stock), and you should probably think about the audience that will purchase the cards (mainly women purchase/write cards).


If anyone's up for it, let me know..I know we're all incredibly busy with work but if you got some work you've already done and want to submit or do something new...its a good opportunity.

1 Comments:

Blogger soojin said...

oh that's awesome! i'd love to participate if i find time leftover from my procrastinations -_-
i handwrote/made about 30 cards last and last last yr for Christmas and i almost commited suicide. i dont think i can do that again but that's really nice. thanks for the info =)

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