Every family has a pile somewhere of their children’s drawings. Since culling out and saving the best works isn’t easy, two moms/entrepreneurs from New Jersey devised a solution: theART:archives.
How it works? Parents send in their kids’ drawings and theART:archives team professionally photographs each one and sends back a DVD catalogue that can be viewed on a computer screen or TV.
The start-up’s founders suggest ordering a separate DVD for each school year to create a complete record of a child’s accomplishments. theART:archives’ prices range from USD 275 for 25 pieces of art up to USD 325 for 55 artworks.
The company’s business model loosely resembles that of other cottage ventures that employ digital technology to reduce clutter, among them small businesses that transfer home videos to DVD or digitize a CD collection for iPod use.
While millions of families own scanners and are tech-savvy enough to create DVD artwork collections on their own, many are likely to appreciate the time-saving convenience of a service that will handle the process for them. One to start up locally, in areas with plenty of two-income families with young children.
Photo by Springwise.
Archiving Children’s Drawings
June 6, 2008 by Rich | 3 Comments
In Kids, Niche, Startup
danakeith on June 8th, 2008 at 4:20 am
bright idea they got there.. it’s quite good but i’d rather keep the original (drawing) coz it’s more appreciated to see the real one.
cassy on June 9th, 2008 at 6:18 am
I suggest if you have a scanner then do it by yourself at least its personalize plus your kids will appreciate it because you give time and effort to do it plus the fact you can save money.
But if you are busy a person and no time to do or no idea how to do it then theART:archives is the answer.
Angela on June 9th, 2008 at 11:44 am
I have to agree with Cassy, somewhat. It’d be much more cost effective to just take the pictures yourself and burn them to a cd or scan the artwork into the computer.
I’m not so sure I’d be willing to pay those prices. But I suppose there is a market for that among parents who might not have the time or camera/scanner/computer to do it themselves.