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Calendars have arrived ... and a lot of other stuff

Hello! We have a jammed packed release today!

Calendars: We’ve made calendars available for public sale. Just in time for calendar buying season. Anyone can make a calendar ... it’s easy!

Challenges: We’ve released an update today that should speed up the voting in challenges (we removed the animation). Over the next few months we’ll be doing more tweaks to the challenges – as we incorporate your feedback (e.g. we’ll introduce the ability to see multiple entries whilst voting).

Forums: We’re testing out a moderated forum idea this week. From time to time there are heated discussions in the forums … we don’t want to shut these discussions down as they can be some of the most interesting and informative discussions. But we do want them to remain civil and constructive. We want people to ‘play nice’. So we’re testing the idea that some forum threads can be flagged as ‘moderated’ – that is each comment is reviewed prior to being made public. The folks that will help with the reviewing are the staff of RB and a range of volunteers from the community. We’ll test this idea out for a few weeks – and see how it goes!

Most Helpful Bubbler: Jo’s running search this week to find the Most Helpful Bubbler. There are so many people who really make this community the supportive and fun place it is. Let’s get together and recognize them for what they contribute.

Nominate another member or host and they could win a special prize pack worth US$100 tailored especially for their tastes. Plus a special featured page in their honor. Plus an interview on their creative journey to be published in the Daily Wrap.

Got someone is mind? Nominate them by email with 50-100 words describing why they are the most helpful bubbler. Then keep it a big juicy secret so that they get an extra special surprise when we announce the shortlisted nominees next week.

RedBubble Challenges: “Compassion, Friendship and Courage” is in the final design stages and should be going on sale soon. Your work looks and reads beautifully. “The City” is now open for images and writing submissions. Get shuffling as you only have 13 days to submit work. And the publication after that will be ‘Nude” so start preparing suitable written and visual work. It will open for submissions in about 3-4 weeks. Here’s a few of my favourites …

There’s also a few comings and goings this week. The RB tech team is metamorphosing as we establish an office in San Francisco. Not all the wonderful people who’ve worked on the website are staying with RB and this week I’d like to say a very fond farewell to Justin and Ben. Justin has been with RB since the very early days (2 years ago) ... and he was just the most wonderful person to work with! We wish him all the very best with his next venture. Ben has been with RB since the start of this year – and his dry and laconic sense of humour will sorely be missed. Thank you both!

On the flip side I’d like to welcome Jason to RB – who has joined RB as our sales and marketing guru. Jason has spent more than 10 years marketing and selling on the Internet – and his role with RB is to sell more of your wonderful work (and helping you to sell your work). Welcome Jason.

Ciao for this week,

- Peter

  • red addiction

    red addiction

    YOU ROCK!!!

  • Dennis Jones - CameraView

    Dennis Jones -...

    Thanks for the calendars…

  • dc witmer

    dc witmer

    awesome

  • pappy

    pappy

    GREAT

  • Marleia Main

    Marleia Main

    Wow .. Calendars!! This is great news!!!!! Thank you!!!

  • sjem ©

    sjem ©

    I think clouds are pretty.

  • Shanina Conway

    Shanina Conway

    Great news about the calendars and other changes, thank you RB team.
    Thank you to Justin and Ben and best wishes in whatever road you take and Hi to Jason;)

  • Tania Rose

    Tania Rose

    fabulous news, as always

  • catherine walker

    catherine walker

    Thanks for all the new information I’m enjoying my red bubble experience very much..and welcome jason..

  • Marion  Cullen

    Marion Cullen

    Nice work guys and gals.

  • helene ruiz

    helene ruiz

    great news!

  • Donna Adamski
  • bamagirl38

    bamagirl38

    Redbubble Rocks ! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  • Sandra Chung

    Sandra Chung

    Loved the calendars last year. Will make use of this again. The rest of the info is also good news. :)

  • jemimalovesbigted

    jemimalovesbigted

    Welcome Jason!

  • MissyVix

    MissyVix

    yay! :D

  • Faizan Qureshi

    Faizan QureshiAll Rounder

    Woot woot woot :D

  • MuscularTeeth

    MuscularTeethVoted Most Helpful Bubbler

    great work team – welcome to the new guy and goodbye (but thanks !) to the two lads leaving…
    and thank you for posting the video montage groups black and white vid whilst the redbubble was down for this calandar upgrade.

    viva la Redbubble !

  • fashionforlove

    fashionforlove

    thank you !!!

  • Charles Dobbs Photography

    Charles Dobbs ...

    The calendars have been long overdue! Thanks!

  • handprintz

    handprintz

    But we have had this option for ages now,when are we going to be able to buy a selection of images for calenders from other peoples work,l don’t want to buy my own ??

  • RedBubble replied

    Hey Trudi … we do think all one step at a time. This is the first step … if lots of folks ask for the ability to create calendars from other people’s work then this is a logical next step. But we’d want to get a sense that quite a few people would like this … before investing in the software.

  • StacyLee

    StacyLee

    Sorry to see Justin and Ben go, but welcome Jason! Great work on the calendars!

  • joan warburton

    joan warburton

    Thank you!

  • NatureGreeting Cards ©ccwri

    NatureGreeting...

    Calenders!! Thanks RB!!!!

  • velveteagle

    velveteagle

    More great news.. That’s what I like..

  • Kitsmumma

    Kitsmumma

    Great work everyone.
    Does the new calendar feature replace older/existing calendars as it appears to have only kept the first image of previous calendars, the rest are all the same?? Does this make sense.

  • George Lenz

    George Lenz

    finally…calendars…still a little pricey though

  • Alison Johnston

    Alison Johnston

    Waves bye bye to Justin and Ben, and gives Jason a big hug :-)

    Great news with the calendars :-)

  • eXposure

    eXposure

    wonderful news and inspirational updates …

  • Luci Mahon

    Luci Mahon

    Thanks for the updates! Excellent news about the calendars!

  • Darren Stones

    Darren Stones

    Justin deserves every accolade that comes his way. His assistance to the community has been first class. All the very best, Justin.

    Ben has provided a calming influence over the site which has helped RedBubble continue to grow. Best wishes for the future, Ben.

    Peter, thanks for enabling calendars to be sold via our profiles. Would be great if you could sharpen your pencil and knock a couple of dollars of the base price though.

    Keep up the good work – the site is going forward in leaps and bounds.

    Cheers.

  • RedBubble replied

    We’re working on improving our calendar logistics … which should help us all out on the pricing front.

  • Chris  Wahl

    Chris Wahl

    Cool bananas!

  • Samantha Dean

    Samantha Dean

    Awesome news!! Welcome Justin to the BubbleZone!! Thanks RB for the calendars!! Woo hoo!!

  • Samantha Dean

    Samantha Dean

    Er, I meant Jason! :-)

  • RiSH :

    RiSH :

    Great to see calendars coming in. Also improvements in challenges are great.

  • Anne van Alkemade

    Anne van Alkemade

    thank you so much Redbubble. This is a major step you’ve taken from my perspective, as far as being able to effectively market my own calendars. I wasn’t able to make a link for calendars to my bubblesite – does it exist or is it still in the making?

    However, very very pleased this has now been introduced. Thx guys, you rock.

  • RedBubble replied

    We’re waiting on the feedback on public calendars (e.g. to see how popular they are) and based on this we’ll prioritize their introduction to the BubbleSite.

  • Adam de la Mare

    Adam de la Mare

    Most Helpful Bubbler – Excellent idea!!... Keep em coming :)

  • EJCairns

    EJCairns

    Stone the flaming crows ! RB gets better all the time, congrats; EJ

  • lightsmith

    lightsmith

    Yippeeeeee!

  • Miron Abramovici

    Miron Abramovici

    The economics of the calendars are completely unreasonable. It’s unlikely to sell a calendar for $25 (many bookstores in US have beautiful calendars for less than $15) and even such a high price leaves only $6 for the artist.

  • Anne van Alkemade

    Anne van Alkemade

    Oops, um I just realised that bubble formatting also applies to the bubblesite and have done a link in the normal way. Is that okay?

  • RedBubble replied

    Absolutely.

  • Mike Emmett

    Mike Emmett

    Uh oh… the links to actual artworks in the activity monitor have slipped off…

    Love the calendar thing though.

  • RedBubble replied

    Just check this out and I couldn’t reproduce … hmm

  • Diesel Laws

    Diesel Laws

    Redbubble, you amaze me. Thank you for your continued effort in making this site bigger and better to help the community. I now check Redbubble daily every hour at least (woah, thats actually 100% accurate!) and its an awesome site,

    You truly rock my bubble.

    Diesel.

  • flyingdisc

    flyingdisc

    You guys rock! Thanks for the opportunity.

  • principiante

    principiante

    very nice, i like that for the voting we won’t have to wait for 100 animations one at a time… that was making me not vote.

    On another note, is it possible to have the my bubble setup so that the art, clothing, or other can be rearranged easily by click and drag instead of using the up and down arrows? I want to organize my pictures, but using the arrows takes a long time… thanks!

  • Xavier Shay

    Xavier Shay works here

    @Mike yeah I just fixed that

  • Tom Godfrey

    Tom Godfrey

    Fantastico!

  • Mike Emmett

    Mike Emmett

    Xavier rocks…

  • peter

    peterworks here

    He double rocks …

  • Rebecca  Lee

    Rebecca Lee

    Finally! I hope this stays! :)

  • ERRRDIABLO

    ERRRDIABLO

    Esto esta de lo mejor fantasticas notisias! Exito a todos suerte. y a trabajar!

  • ozlat

    ozlat

    wow… everyone is going calendar crazy!

  • Plangman

    Plangman

    cool

  • Glenn Alderson

    Glenn Alderson

    That is some fantastic news :)

  • Karen Cougan

    Karen Cougan

    Goodbye Justin and Ben
    take care of you
    and Welcome to the newies
    xkc

  • fullcirclemandalas

    fullcirclemand...

    I have my first calendar and while I have decided my images aren’t up to scratch and I need to rephotograph all my artwork! there are a couple of things I really don’t like about the calendars:
    1. The wire hanger is very poor quality and lowers the tone of the whole product – I love my calendars (as do many of my friends) and we all agreed that it is simply not worth $20 , let alone a resale value of $25-$30.
    2. The calendar part itself is not big enough – the boxes are not big enough to write in – all us calendarholics use the calendar as a wall planner and subsidiary diary (as well as the pictures LOL) and the spaces are simply not big enough. I would rather have my pictures a bit smaller and the calendar spaces larger, than the format they are now.

    I have no issue with the quality – the paper and production is excellent, but I would not be able to market these for under $30 and at that price, I think people would baulk.

    Anyway thats my 2cents worth…

  • Joe Thill

    Joe Thill

    Great work Team Redbubble! you guys rock!

  • Ern Mainka

    Ern Mainka

    What are the dimensions of the calendars ?

  • Shelley Heath

    Shelley Heath

    Great work redbubble and good luck to Justin and Ben in your future endeavours. Jason welcome to the fold.

  • Kane Slater

    Kane Slater

    Are you going to make it so we can put the calendars on our Bubblesites?

  • CassPics

    CassPics

    I m new to the site and the first time on was addicted! Thanks RB!!!! Welcome to Jason and good luck to those leaving.

  • Photomojo

    Photomojo

    Welcome Jason! OOooooo calenders!!!! Love it, Thanks to the RB Team for all the hard work!

  • Hop  Dac

    Hop Dacworks here

    @ Ern: A3

  • Hop  Dac

    Hop Dacworks here

    @ Kane (from earlier in thread):

    We’re waiting on the feedback on public calendars (e.g. to see how popular they are) and based on this we’ll prioritize their introduction to the BubbleSite.

  • Jo O'Brien

    Jo O'Briencommunity ambassador

    I’m loving that you can add images that are hidden on your profile. Avoids having to upload masses of new images to fill a calendar

  • Bailey Sampson

    Bailey Sampson

    Sweet! Can’t wait to get home to my main computer…I’ve been waiting for this so I can make a themed calendar.

  • KellieBee

    KellieBee

    Calendars are great
    are they going to be made avalible thru our bubblesites?

  • susan davies

    susan davies

    like to add my best wishes to justin and ben for the future and thank them both for their contribution to making redbubble the king of sites and welcome jason, im really excited about making calenders , its the best. Well done team

  • zpaperboyz

    zpaperboyz

    Yes, let’s see them added to our bubblesites! Also can’t find how to send friends to my calendar specifically.

  • Jon Kudelka

    Jon Kudelka

    Calendars look mighty fine, but the base price is too high to make any money. Not blaming anyone, just giving feedback.

  • linsads

    linsads

    thanks for everything ! and Hi Jason also best wishes to Justin and Ben, the calenders look great

  • Ruben  Roncallo

    Ruben Roncallo

    COOL…. GRACIAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • muckypup

    muckypup

    Oh man the calendars look cool, nice work!

    Good job with the challenges as well :D

    Thanks Justin and Ben for helping make redbubble one sweet site, and welcome Jason!

  • tkrosevear

    tkrosevear

    this site is amazing and just keeps getting better, can’t wait to play with the calendars, thanks RB!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Pat Lucas

    Pat Lucas

    Thanks RB you are stars.

  • Kristina K

    Kristina K

    hey guys, love the calenders for sale, and yes like trudi it would be great to make calenders from your fav photos and artists..well done every one :) k

  • Anne van Alkemade

    Anne van Alkemade

    Waaaahoooooo – RB, thank you soooooo much. I have already sold 3 calendars. I am sooooo rapt.

  • RedHillDigital

    RedHillDigital

    Thanks for the calendars … at last! Perhaps now you can cut the price to make them competitive.

  • mausue

    mausue

    Great news. Keep up the good work RB. Welcome Jason!! :))

  • Anne Staub

    Anne Staub

    Again you’ve delivered high quality and ease of use for all. Anne :)

  • Lenka

    Lenka

    Good news again :)
    Would it be possible to have calendars in black? Some photos just look so much better on black…

  • Justin French

    Justin French

    Thanks for the kind words gang! Maybe now I can get up to some mischief and mayhem like the rest of the community ;)

  • Tania  Donald

    Tania Donald

    yay!!!! calendars!!!! i’m so excited! thanks RB!!!!
    i know i’m being greedy but is there any chance we will ever see bags (like shopping bags) as another printable option???? and there are so many blank t-shirt backs around – they need printing on too!!! : D

  • Ern Mainka

    Ern Mainka

    I saw $30 RRP mass produced printed calendars in a store today. $30 for an original photographic print calendar is a bargain (too cheap at $30 in my mind).

    It presents a pricing dilema. On one hand (at say a high retail purchase price of $60) it’s pricey for a calendar but still very cheap for 13 photographic prints (at $4.60 per print) that can be framed later. $4.60 a print is too cheap when I think of it that way. Tricky to price and sell. But a good looking product.

  • Gina ...

    Gina ...

    so happy to have landed in RB … lots of luverly things to get my head around … >>> Gina

  • Trainman

    Trainman

    Thanks for your vision on Red Bubble i certainly endorse the suggestion that one should be able to buy calendars of other peoples work,i feel there will be huge support for this

  • Van Cordle

    Van Cordle

    Excellent stuff!!

  • Linda Callaghan

    Linda Callaghan

    great idea and great site! enjoying every minute of it

  • Jane Keats

    Jane Keats

    Hurrah!! RedBubble rulez!! (lol, trip back to the 80’s)

  • Ben Ryan

    Ben Ryan

    Justin I thought you got up to that even when you worked here.

  • jPhillips

    jPhillips

    Great! My calendar arrived last week, looks fantastic!

  • Monica Engeler

    Monica Engeler

    Awesome! Calendars. LIke the ideas coming. Love this place. Glad I found it.

  • Jing3011

    Jing3011

    Thanks for providing such a great site.

  • Damian

    Damian

    Guys, what happened to the “writing” tab in our profiles? Has calendars bumped it off?

  • Ben Ryan

    Ben Ryan

    Ben has provided a calming influence over the site

    Damn.

  • angelfeather

    angelfeather

    cool Beans! thanks :)

  • Stormygirl

    Stormygirl

    Great news…

  • memac

    memac

    Great stuff, Guys & Gals! Thanks again for all you do for us – the new calendars – Yeah! – and welcome, Jason – a marketing specialist is just what I need! memac

  • Anthony Hedger

    Anthony Hedger

    well done guys

  • Karin  Taylor

    Karin Taylorcommunity helper

    aw, farewell Ben, i’ll miss you

  • Karin  Taylor

    Karin Taylorcommunity helper

    thank you for the Calendars RB!!!! a dream come true :)

  • Rusty Woodward Gladdish

    Rusty Woodward...

    Oooooooo! Calendars now! Nice!

  • jacqi

    jacqi

    Brilliant and I’m so glad about the voting being easier, it was such a pain before!

  • Tony Lin

    Tony Lin

    I look forward to them being available on the bubblesites!
    Having bought a calendar already, I am very happy with the end product (improved spiral binding hopefully soon as well! :P) and look forward to being able to sell them :)

  • Alessandro Pinto

    Alessandro Pinto

    So sorry Ben is leaving.. wish you the best, let me know if you go back to Peru !

  • Jason Michaels

    Jason Michaelsworks here

    Thank you all for the generous welcome. I am excited to be on board full-time and look forward to helping the team make RedBubble an even greater success. I’ve enjoyed displaying my work on RB and interacting with artists near and far since February 2007.

  • Darren Robertson

    Darren Robertson

    will we be able to add calenders to our bubblesites in the near future?

  • Vonnie Murfin

    Vonnie Murfin

    Great work redbubble!! Keep it up!! I really like that the calendars are now available for the public. Thank you!!

  • Ben Ryan

    Ben Ryan

    “let me know if you go back to Peru”

    Alas, Pete and Martin wouldn’t let me near the accounts, so a trip to south america is still some way off! ;)

  • Ben Ryan

    Ben Ryan

    @Darren Robertson

    Bubblesites is something we’re planning on rolling out the calendars to, but there’s a fair bit of work involved there so it may take a few weeks.

  • debb

    debb

    LOVE the calenders – would also love to create a ‘favorites’ – as I have so many – collective creative images from other amazing RBs – Cheers :)

  • Kimberly Miller

    Kimberly Miller

    You guys are awesome and I so appreciate all of your hard work. I love the calendars and many cudos for the great idea.
    Kimberly

  • Joanne  Bradley

    Joanne Bradley

    Great stuff!
    And I think Jo’s idea of the most helpful is excellent!

  • Kane Slater

    Kane Slater

    The calendars are screwing up big time. I can’t save changes. It keeps showing me old versions I saved hours ago. Or I click on one calendar and it shows me another.
    I deleted and re-posted with different names 3 times and it still keeps showing old versions or the wrong calendar entirely. This is wasting a lot of my time. Please make the calendars work properly!!!

  • Roz McQuillan

    Roz McQuillan

    Thanks guys for the fantastic work you are doing! The calendars are fab, but I agree with a couple of comments that if you can lower the base price, we might make a little bread and butter while still keeping them affordable. Is there any free postage offer for bulk copies? Thanks again, I’ve gone calendar mad!!!

  • georgiegirl

    georgiegirl

    Yay!!!! Calendars to sell to everyone else!!! Thank you RB Elves :D Thanks also to Justin for the 2 (2 already?) fantastic years he’s given us and to Ben for all he’s done as well. Good luck to both of you for whatever you will do next! I hope you’ll both stay on in the community though… and as one addict (I mean, bubbler) I can’t really see you leaving completely! There are so many people that are helpful in our bubbly world… what a fantastic idea Jo has come up with… someone better nominate her as well (even if she is an Elf now). I’m off to play with my calendars now (thanks so much again!!) ;D

  • Darren Robertson

    Darren Robertson

    cheers ben ryan by the way they are looking great

  • Jo Hoden   "C'est la Vie"

    Jo Hoden "C'...

    yippeeeeeee

  • Wildwings

    Wildwings

    Great job! Glad the calendars have arrived. Just uploaded the 2009 calendar “Cowboys of the West”. Yippeeeeeeee…

  • WatscapePhoto

    WatscapePhoto

    Slick calendar program. A joy to use. Many thanks

  • loua

    loua

    i will loved it mate’s

  • EnchantedDreams

    EnchantedDreams

    Thanks for the updates. Redbubble rocks!

    Is there a way, where we can preview our calendars, before we create them?

  • Philip Johnson

    Philip Johnson

    congrats on RB for taking on the suggestions and feedback on calendars

  • Philip Johnson

    Philip Johnson

    another question is there a chance of getting a Share Work Button on Calendars

  • DreddArt

    DreddArt

    Calendars look great …. I got 3 done so far :)
    Great stuff….

  • Iain Mavin

    Iain Mavin

    Can we add these to our bubblesites without having to place a link in our profile ?

  • krafty

    krafty

    I sold calenders last year,but wonder if this year people could request what images they wanted from my PF..this way they could choose and would get exactly what they request.
    If anyone wants them please contact me with the contents of their choice.
    Thanks RB.
    XXXXXXX

  • Dallas McCallum-Edwards

    Dallas McCallu...

    Can some one help me as to how to create calenders>Have tried link in My Bubble but with no success

  • TimChuma

    TimChuma

    I’ll also do my own mailout to people who I already look at my website with some of my calendar recommendations from this site.

  • Cornelia Togea

    Cornelia Togea

    I noticed on my calendars, and on some of other contributor’s calendars (that I’ve looked at) that there’s something wrong with the month of August. The first two days/dates seem to be Sunday and Monday, then Tue, Wed, Thur and Friday are blank (the line and number for these days are missing) and the next day is Saturday.

    Anyone else noticed this?

  • Carla Jandelle Petters

    Carla Jandelle...

    i’ve also tried the link to see how to make? and it just keeps returning to the same page…..nothing about how to make one? please help?

  • Carla Jandelle Petters

    Carla Jandelle...

    my apologies? please ignore that comment as i didn’t scroll my bar all the way across where it said ‘create’ one…........and amazing. although i’ve many images that are sellable as framed art…NONE of my over 300 images are high enuf pixel to put into a callendar according to the requirements. sad

  • Hagen

    Hagen

    As Cornelia pointed out, the Calendars I made on Redbubble last year had a problem on one of the months… Can’t remember exactly right now but I can check if you want…

  • Kimberly Palmer

    Kimberly Palmer

    I did a search on this page for “cover” and it didn’t come up, so maybe nobody has mentioned it here…. in regards to 4) Choose a Cover Image many of us can’t pick a particular image for the cover page. For example, if I create something for my cover, then go to select it, it’s not even available in the selection. It’s no where to be found.

  • Roger Sampson

    Roger Sampson

    I have the same problem as Kimberly Palmer has. All the months allow me to choose from my entire portfolio but, “Cover Image” will only allow me to pick from 6 images – I’ve tried everything!!! Please… need some help with this. Thanks

  • ~ HEIDI  HORVATH ~

    ~ HEIDI HORVA...

    Yay!!! Finally,,.. so cool.. These calendars are GREAT!!!! I know I bought one..

  • Janys Hyde

    Janys Hyde

    I am delighted that these are now available from our own profile page, but was wondering if there is a way to add it to our RB site yet? I have already bought several of them and really lovely the quality and size, but want to be able to link it from my site along with all the cards etc.
    Any news on this? Or do you not envisage offering this option maybe?

  • Jodi Coyle

    Jodi Coyle

    Calendars are great. Is there any plan to add postcards to the range?

  • kalaryder

    kalaryder

    Wonderful stuff. Thank you for the calendars

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