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Niche Biz: Refrigerator Art
Parents who are running out of space on refrigerators and bulletin boards to showcase their children’s artwork, but can’t stand the thought of parting with their creations, have a new option for preserving their tots’ masterpieces.
Artimus Art publishes beautiful custom hardcover portfolios of children’s artwork and hosts online galleries to share the images with select family and friends—or the whole world.
Part website, part publishing company, Artimus Art offers packages which includes a 55-page book and 70 webhosted images.
Customers receive a return postage-paid portfolio for sending in the artwork. Once pieces are scanned and uploaded, customers can begin organizing their images through a simple click-and-drag process on artimus.com. A template guides them to set details such as the font for the book’s cover.
As soon as it’s ready, the custom book—suitable for displaying on any coffee table or bookshelf—is delivered to the customer’s home.
And online galleries never expire, so users can continue to browse and share images for years to come. There’s even a public art gallery where aspiring Rembrandts and Monets can publish their work for the world to see.
Customers can also choose to have images converted to oil masterpieces, using a special canvas treatment. Of course the potential merchandise that might be adorned with images of the artwork is endless.
So, entrepreneurs thinking of duplicating and expanding on this concept should take note. Another obvious enhancement would be to let customers scan the art themselves and send it electronically, avoiding the hassle of shipping and alleviating any worries about precious originals getting lost in the mail.
Photo by Artimus Art.
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Dana on March 2nd, 2008 7:09 pm
This is a great idea and the reason no one has thought about this as a business idea is because most of the young entrepreneurs today, the thought of dealing with “stuff” is way too over the top and they can’t deal with it. Today’s young business minded is about making money electronically without having to actually having to “do” anything and by uploading your own artwork you lose the high resolution aspect of art reproduction. The reality is, that your kids don’t paint and draw on a scandisk which can be uploaded.
So, hats off to artimus art who challenges the electronic world to enable all child art to be reproduced to the eloquence in which it was created.
These are not photos. It’s art.
Azhar Khan on March 30th, 2008 10:24 am
Yes I am interested to start a art gallery.
Would like companies offering franchises,
license arrangements or distribution systems
to start art gallery. Located in Temple, Texas
Susan Berman on November 15th, 2010 3:21 pm
Let’s celebrate the art of our little ones! If you don’t save their art, you will forget about their internal life and some special parts of their childhood.
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