Imagekind print on demand service

Imagekind is a print-on-demand service for artists of all types including, photographers, illustrators, graphic designers, painters, and printmakers. Artists can sell their work online with a free Imagekind online art gallery. Imagekind handles all product creation, credit card processing, shipping, and customer service. You can choose from eight different papers, two canvas finishes, and over 150 mats and frames

There is a forum to keep in touch with the community and a blog to keep in touch with news

 

2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards

The annual 2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards are open for submissions. The awards are open to graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers and computer artists from higher education institutions. The categories included browser based and non browser based design, media designed for mobile devices, animation, motion graphics, and non Browser based design, such as illustration, packaging, photography and print communication.

To enter you must be 18 years old and a full-time student at an accredited institution of higher education and an student ID is required. The rules are on the site. Students can submit entries via the Adobe Design Achievement Awards website. Submissions will be accepted online until May 2, 2008. Information is available on the Adobe Design Achievement Awards site. The winning entries from 2007 are also housed on the site

 

Freshly Blended a blog

Nicole Lecht a bookbinder and print designer writes a regular blog, Freshly Blended which I have been reading lately. The design process, inspiration, techniques and products sold in her Etsy shop are reported consistently.

 

Follow the Sun

Follow the Sun is an exhibit of Australian travel posters between the 1930’s – 1950’s drawn from the collections of the National Library of Australia.

During these years the Australian National Travel Association (ANTA) produced travel posters as part of a marketing campaign to increase tourism.

In the 1930s, ANTA undertook major promotions of Victoria’s centenary and Australia’s 150th anniversary celebrations in Sydney. During the Second World War, ANTA closed down its overseas offices, only resuming tourism promotion in 1948. The 1956 Olympic Games were strongly promoted by ANTA, and a number of the posters they commissioned in the 1950s were entered in international competitions. From the 1960s, few new posters were commissioned and ANTA was wound up in 1974