WILL DESIGN
for FOOD
I am a sucker for food ads. I am fascinated by the look and description of food. If you want to sell me something… do it with good design. Like this ad for FIT Ketchup from Heinz. If you love ads, check out Ads of the World™ where I found this one. It is the same with art. As I have mentioned in the Art of Cooking, it is all about presentation.
I am a huge fan of pursuing editorial art publication; however, anything worth having in life is also worth doing yourself.
Whether it is promoting a show you already have or introducing your work to galleries where you would like to show, postcards are a great idea for promoting your work. Printing them yourself doesn’t often look professional, and professional printing is more reasonably priced than ever.
AAAD is proud to partner with NextDayFlyers.com to sponsor a postcard giveaway.
All you to do is leave a comment on this post telling us what you would do with 100 free postcards, and you qualify to win! I know a few of you out there are suspicious, but there is no catch!
Comments will close one week from the time of this post. NextDayFlyers.com will use Random.org to pick a winner and set up an account with a credit for a set of 100 4″x6″ Standard Postcards printed in full color on one side and black and white on the reverse. They will include next day printing turnaround time and ship them anywhere in the Continental U.S.
Those are their rules;
Here are mine:
1. One comment per artist explaining what you will do with the postcards.
2. Comments should not contain profanity or links to other websites. Editor’s note: I personally approve every comment, so I will know if you break the rules.
3. Spread the word. The drawing is completely random, so help out your friends and peers by giving them a chance to win too. Retweet & share on facebook!
I would send them too 100 galleries to try to get a solo show.
I would use them like business cards and hand them out to people who might be interested in buying or exhibiting my work!
Those would be fab! I’d use them to promote my upcoming show “I Want Candy – fifteen famous artists get sweet on Lafayette” which is opening on April 1. I’m spending all MY money on food for the reception (wouldn’t you?) so free postcards would be awesome! Thx!!!
With 100 free postcards, I would contact galleries about featuring my armor pieces. (I’ve spent so much time focusing on jewelry–I’d like to give that part of my business some attention!)
Promote my new surface designed scarves!
I would design drop-dead gorgeous cards, include a QR code, and promote promote promote!
I send the cards out in the mail to various contacts old and new.
I’d use them as self-promo leave-behinds at upcoming gallery show!
I would travel with them on me at all times, taking them to big events like Art Chicago and the Armory Show, handing them directly to dealers (and maybe I’d keep a few for friends and family…maybe).
I would send them out to my contacts and ask them to pass a few along to their contacts, and so on, until all of them were circulated all over the country, in the hands of artists, dealers and fans!
I would send them out to the local Savannah bars to get the buzz going about The Savannah Barstinations project, so that they would give us a few free drinks and food to come to their places to include them in the book.
I have a show coming up in May and would love to use these postcards to get the word out.
I would use them to promote my photography 😀
With 100 postcards, I would mail 1 postcard to 100 galleries in 100 locations worldwide.
I have recently won photography contests with National Geographic and The World Photography Organisation. I love photography more than anything and I would use the cards to promote my artwork , thousands of people see my artwork without knowing the name behind it. My photograph “Bug Eyes” was displayed outside of the UNESCO HQ in Paris and The Conference of the Parties to the CBD in Nagoya, Japan and in Canada for the Winter Olympics 2009. I work hard on what I do and believe I would put these postcards to very good use as part of many mailart campaigns being organised in magazines around the globe.Thank you for reading this. Eleanor, age 15
I would use them as swatch cards, and hand them out when someone ordered anything from me.
With the 100 postcards I would use them as mini portfolios promoting my photography to vaious galleries and organizations.
I’d love to use these as thank-you postcards for our wedding!
SHAMELESS PROMOTION :o)