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…
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…
I have never celebrated Halloween on the 31 of October. In Holland, it was not known in my day and also not in SA when my kids were young, but now that I have grandchildren, granny has designed Halloween images for Tshirts! These are some examples of my Halloween designs for the whole family. By…
On the internet these days how often do we have to prove just that? That we are Human! What would our great great grandparents say if they knew, but then the Internet would have been an unknown concept let alone computers. As I was writing my End of Times blog I was inspired to created…
My creative time designing images for T-shirts to be sold on Amazon has now shifted me to working with themes. In the Merch by Amazon Facebook groups people often mention to work with themes, but I had not followed that system before now. Now that I’m allowed to upload 10 designs each day, which I…
This is my NEW brand name at Amazon for kiddies and young at heart. They are all priced at $14.99 at Amazon Since Easter is almost around the corner, my update yesterday day was an Easter design, but have a look at all my other playful designs here. 100% Cotton Imported Machine wash cold with…
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