I have not been writing on this blog for a while due to many other projects, apart from my idea to create an Art Gallery I wrote about in my previous post. My present project has mainly to do with Customized Wedding Stationery on Zazzle. The themes for my wedding stationery show great variety, from…
Creating an Art Gallery My Art Gallery on my blog project started by trying to get more organized with my Print on Demand designs on my computer. What a job. First I created several files for all my African Wildlife designs followed by our Rainbow nation designs including my graphic art and photo designs from…
When I discovered Pinterest in 2014 I found myself trapped in Cyberspace for a whole week. All my other work stood still. The ideas that came past my screen no matter what I typed in totally blew me away. Later when I become a graphic designer for Print on demand websites I started using Pinterest…
Most people will think about books, but today almost every product imaginable can be purchased one item at the time, like with a book. Decor, Footwear Clothes, Wall art and more… Being a self-taught graphic designer, I started off by designing my own book cover that was published in 2001. Seventeen years later the opportunities…
One can never go wrong with a calendar gift. The first three calendars are all the designs and photos to do with Africa, the culture, leather crafts about its rainbow people. The Floral Treasures calendar is ideal for flower and plant lovers. Most are manipulated photos from the Cape and surroundings. The images in the…
I have many things I want to do today, but i suddenly saw that people are started to promote Halloween. As many of you know I design images for many print on demand products besides our books, so here are some of my Halloween T-shirts on Amazon. ( I have NEVER got onto to this…
For many Years as Book publishers, we started to prepare ourselves for our yearly attendance at the Frankfurt book fair during October where we would meet like-minded book publishers from all over the world. Bookings were made well in advance and during the show, we would exchange ideas and sell our titles in other languages. …
I wish I knew! I like to create artworks for shirts, but is it trendy? It all depends which market we design for, and since I’m more European – being Dutch in origin but living in Cape Town, my taste and what I feel looks nice on a T-shirt or on other products is probably…
For me, it started with a bang in connection with Merch by Amazon opportunities. Two more projects to design for. Sweatshirts and Hoodies besides T-shirts and long sleeve T-shirts. For the Month of February I’m already promoting Valentine designs on our Social media. . How to Create a Niche Market I have been a Print…
My memories about Christmas is linked with playing in the snow, making a snowman or decorating a real fir-tree with my mom and sister in Holland where I grew up. My mom owned several Anton Pieck paintings she acquired during the fifties, so I created an Anton Pieck calendar and combined them with modern illustrations…
Shopping for gifts 