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sure, Magazine + bOOK = MOOK!

Ohhh yay…Go Fran! We love you!!! :))))

Bring it on guys … and congratulations for showing us the way!!

Wow! Lots of good thinking and organizing going on! I do have a suggestion…....after ordering my laminated prints, which were beautifully done by the way…....I then had to spend a couple hundred dollars for frames…....because the sizes are NOT standard sizes. So, how about some size standardization?

Awesome … sounds great !!!

Photo books would be fantastic! Can’t wait to hear more about that idea. Have used a few other online book printers/publishers and would love a something simple, powerful and suited to professional looking photo books.

Agree, Mooks?

don’t get it…

Never mind to late…

Sounds like the RedBubble Machine is working nicely. Good to see some ideas put forward are in the works. Good-O. Keep up the good work!

cool … a mook :)

Great

Sounds fantastic !

Lookin’ forward 2 it :)

I’m new here, sort of, and I like the way you guys keep us informed of stuff. And you keep trying to remodle the place. That’s good for us. Thanks.

Keep up the good work guys!!!

Sounds awesome RB, thanks for the heads up sounds like you’ll be busy, and we’ll be continually surprised by new products and features. (It’s made Thursdays exciting).

tee hee hee hee hee… Postcards!!! :) :) :) :D

I think that your plans are great. A site like this will be ever evolving, and even from my short time here, I’ve seen a few changes that confirm my trust that you guys are working towards an awesome business model as well as an awesome site.

There has never been a better site that I’ve been on…. you guys really are on top of it. With awesome products, ideas, and staying in touch with us.
Keep on keeping on. =)

TWO thumbs up!

AWESOME!!!!!! Thanks guiys you are all doing such a great job , not just for the company but also for the community …. Thank you all ever so much!!!

Alot on the table, good luck and Thanks.

How about tee shirts for kids?

Sounds cool, would like to be a buyer but as far as I know RB does not accept money orders. I don’t have a credit card and can’t get PayPal.

The Mooks – great Idea to give all a chance. Excellent! Profitable for RB ( at least recoup the cost ). Wonderful for RBians to promote themselves and see themselves published.
Many Mooks. Love it.

Rog

I like the business card and postcard idea – perhaps if we’re to be buying our own materials for promotion off Red Bubble – discount orders over a certain print run (I know MPix and others offer increasing discounts for larger runs (100+, 500+, 1000+ etc.) for the smaller items like the cards. I know if I walked into a Hallmark-type store that sells cards locally and had 10 boxes of 25 cards to sell, they’d be interested, but with the rates where they are, that can get awful pricey for artists that are just starting out or who have this as a side income revenue.

Thanks for keeping us informed. It’s great that RB is so open.

Exciting stuff, looking forward to it all in the year! Well done RB!

This sounds so awesome! The bubble is great and only getting better!

Love all the ideas can’t wait for them all to be implemented. Great work guys

Please continue thoughts on the REALLY BIG pieces of art idea—I’d certainly buy some.

Thanks!

a mook….... sounds like something you would fillet and shallow fry…..or something an old man would calmly stroke whilst sitting in front of the fire on a cold winters night.

Keep up the good work guys…..we strugglingartists really appreciate, and notice the effort you are putting! Well done!

I don’t want to put a mocker on your mooks – but be careful in it’s use. It’s a clothing brand.

one idea that would assist with artist promtion is the ability to buy small cards based on our artwork. On one side reprint of an artists work and some personal details, contact info or text on the other. Like a mini business card – easy to carry around and striking to look at.

that sounds good why do you call i a mook?

From what I’ve seen so far, you guys are doing a great job, and produce great products.
One thing that I’d like to see is a number next to my groups that represents the total number of my works in a specific group.

Aw yeah, baby! Sounds like fun times ahead at redbubble.

All your ideas are really great but it does not much help bubblers living in a country with a frightful dollar to Rand exchange rate….I would love to get one of my own calendars (or several at xmas as presents) but to do that need tobond my house….(sigh) any ideas on discounts for underprivileged Bubblers?? LOL.

you could go in the steps of karmaloop and have a street team that can promote new additions, favourites, most popular, random items, etc

they promote their widget on their myspace, facebook, website, wiki, etc and then make ‘red dollars’ or something like that… they can then spend that on redbubble or cash it in (sorta like an affiliate setup… but better)

how about selling blank note cards. sets of 12 w/envelopes. just another thought….

oh, like all the ideas!

Sounds great can’t wait for the books umm err mooks!

To be a part of redbubble is to be loved. Aww… Sharing. Yay! :o)

And yes, Mooks is an already established clothing company, but, if it’s a cross between a book and a magazine, there’s always bagazine. ;oP

RedBubble rules, rocks, and according to my friend’s sixteen year old, is The Bomb.

Look forward to it!

I would definately be interested in photo books (as long as there’s no logos on it)!

Or notepads with a watermarked version of a piece of artwork for the header – I know lots of people that would buy that if I took it into the local art stores for sale…

Mooks = A MASSIVE COPYRIGHT PROBLEM.

Other than that, it all sounds great!

I love the postcard idea

what about a widget that allows the seller to move a design around on a ‘template’ shirt (with their mouse), until they like what they see? i think that’d be really cool.

thanks for sharing all this info with us, it’s good to be let in on what’s about to happen. :-)

Working hard again RB!! Thanks guys for the effort you extend on our behalf!!! Like all the ideas! Sympathise with Carisma re poor Bubblers…I am one myself! We’ll just have to save up, Carisma!

very excited about all this!

sounds great people of RB

Thanks for the hard work!

The Ideas sound great!! Glad I found RedBubble … I’d recommend a format similar to National Geographic for the Mooks .. its size and quality is 1st class!!

Not sure about the concerns over mooks – mook is a term that has been in use for at least a few years. Great example for anyone wanting to be inspired by people doing good things in the world is Dumbo feather, pass it on – DF has happily existed as a mook long before this thread…

Apart from all that, love the ideas and also hope that kids’ sizes might be on the menu sometime down the road – I keep force feeding my nephew but he’s still not big enough to fit my t-shirts…

Canaan beat me to the bagazine … (makes it sound full of great stuff somehow …)
Oh hang on – it would be!! ;p

Glad to hear all that. :)

All sounds great. Thanks for your hard work.

I’m new here, but love how red bubble is run & Co-ordinated.
I have to agree with Jason Andersons comment about having an option where bulk orders can be sold. Selling one card, or print, is great for the browsing customer but no good if we wanted to sell greater volumes & people love discounts. Love the idea of postcards, esp with artists name, red bubble.com smartly printed , we could offer sample packs to wanna be purchasers or shops, nice idea.
All sounds very good! Bring it on!
P’s I think marketing is the most important thing, as some peeps dont have websites, and not everyone is clued up with it, but would be get to get more word out in the world!

Mooks might be okay copyright wise as on the ipaustralia site I did a search for trademarks relating to Mooks…. all of them were composite trademarks and none of them related to class 16 which would be the relevant class in this case as it relates to books and class 42 which is the layout of the book … all the listed copyrights related to classes dealing with clothing and sunglasses. But I am no copyright lawyer

P’s Can we find a kooler name than a ” MOOK ” ? lol

I confer with jason Alexanders idea (further up the reply list) I would be interested in buying my own products if they where to be discounted in proportion to the print run amount.

wow cool grat Ilove it!!! !

Are people concerned because of copyright? We should all consider what kind of license to publish our works under. It’d be good if RB supported the various Creative Commons licenses too.

A helpful link is the Creative Commons license generator if you’re confused about what kind of license you want to release your work under!

you guys Rock.and thank you..thanks for putting up with us all wanting different things, thanks for trying to make our work look the best it possibly can, thanks for listening and Responding! thanks for making a site one wants to come to, and not dread, thanks for being an outstanding group of people

A “Mook” is an established term for describing this thing and we didn’t invent it at all (see here), but like everything on this list, there’s still plenty to be decided upon and negotiated. I wouldn’t worry too much about the name, let’s worry about what’s in it!

Thank you! printing on the back of T shirts would be the best, also being able to like print over the shoulder and such. Just a suggestion but maybe hoodies? could they be added to the artistic arsenal. Anyway great work redbubble, glad to be apart of the community

really cool stuff..I am thinking about having a book made seen it advertised elsewhere but would buy from here instead!

Thanks for keeping all of us in the loop, I’m pretty excited about all the positive changes taking place. One think I would suggest and where I see a deficit is in kids tees… Can we get those happening some time in the future??? Thanks again :o)

The concept sounds cool and I’m ready to grow right along with you guys, whatever that direction is in.

I like the promotion idea… it’s hard to get your stuff where lots of people will see it.

Cheryl

fabulous to hear of your thoughts, plans and utter crazy commitment to a great ideal.
the community of redbubble reflects the enthusiasm of its staff methinks..

anyways its a great idea.

ive told you guys before, but ill say it now in publicke:

you need to make really simple shoes that people can do designs on
and you need to have sticker transfers to be able to place designs on any existing fabric (from an old tshirt or a bag lets say)..

regardless this is a flippin unbelievably awesome site and i raise my glass you you guys and gals in the team.
:)

I am excited to hear that everyone is so involved in the bubble process. So, with that in mind let me through one more crazy idea onto the ever growing pile. What if we take the art of one bubbler and match it with the words from another bubbler and let the clients or buyers decide how they want to buy the merch. People love choices just as much as they love discounts, and adding to the ideas of package buying when it comes to postcards and greeting cards they could also have the option of buying a package of one type of card or mix and match in any order that they choose. Of course prices are going to be higher for single copies, but when you discount the packages it will give the buyers more incentive to go that route. Just a thought, Thanks for letting us have a say in running the show.

I haven’t sold anything yet, but I have faith that this is the tool by which to do it. It is my work that needs to be more focus.

RB – your site is already absolutely incredible (although a warning of possible addiction may be wise). The very fact that you still want to improve makes we certain I will be on here for many many years.

Oh, also, as a buyer – I think the process is smooth and user friendly. The one suggestion I would make is with the cards, and this is to maybe put them into those see through slips that shop cards come in. I have sold my own work from Bubble, but only by buying it and selling it afterwards and I think this might become even easier if they were packaged.

Just a thought.

Thank you for everything.

Lovin the ideas guys:)its inspiring the work you put in and the feedback you get,just makes me want to work work work..With ya all the way.xxxxxxxx

Something of the quality that MOMENTO sell at the price of LULU will be a mega hit. (and probably impossible!)

I love the idea of Mooks
Just a thunk – can we have a Mook each?
I’m new and predominantly a writer and am not sure how my poetry / prose / novels etc would sell without a picture / card etc. The idea of selling a Mook of my writings sounds interesting – how else does it work?

I love this site! It’s the best Virtual Global Artist Commune ever!
I hope Montsalvat in Eltham has a place to log on to too! [lol what a thought!]

I am a happily addicted bubbler! :o) fankooo!!! ~ adg xox

i’m extremely keen on the photo books, and on the mooks & publications side of things. as adgray mentioned, the option for individual mooks or magazines as well as photo books would also be fantastic.

having published a book through blurb i found the quality good but i have issues with the following things:

- inability to upload cmyk images into their software and subsequently not having as much control over colour and contrast shift in the finished product

- the prohibitive trackable shipping prices from the US to Australia

- the fact that you can’t “set your own price” if you’re not a US citizen over 18 years of age

- not being able to give printing business to a “clean green” australian printing house.

glad to hear that there are so many options being looked at to give us more exposure, outlets and opportunities :o)

1 x loaf of bread
1 x tub of butter
1 x Mook

Thanks for working so hard on our behalf. The books need to be buyer/artist arrangable, and have narrative added, as well as quality covers.

I was already delighted to hear about the matt frames etc., now postcards….YES!!!!
Perfect for my future plans, many thanks!

Wouldn’t it be be great to make possible co-operative creativity? For example for people who want to publish an illustrated book.

It would be great as well if you created bubbles in several languages, such as french, spanish, chinese, hindi…

Otherwise, what you’re doing’s great!

I think the mook is a good idea…. I was thinking though about an idea I had and don’t know quite how it would sound to all? So let me just throw it out there and see what ya think. I have an advertising certificate and lot’s of marketing experience. Many projects I’ve developed. Something unique and excellent exposure and sales potential. Okay here it is how about a registry in store’s or a store Red Bubble Registry one that would be easy to browse through and buy art from. Just like the baby registries and the wedding stations that you pick from in stores. All the details would need to be worked out for there would be alot of them. Yet I thought there’s nothing out there like that where you can purchase art and have it shipped like the one here. So many fantastic artists to choose from and it could be all over the world. I myself know it would be huge I like to shop myself for the special artist the piece that goes with my moods and rooms moods in my house and have many nice pieces from other artists. I know it sounds to complicated yet …hmmm just wondering does it sound off the wall or off the hook let me know what you think if you want. Thanks

I would like the idea of matching up my writing with other’s artworks. I’m primarily a writer and I am just a buyer on here as of now but the idea of a collaboration is just great to me!

This is great and a new change is always welcome. Good on you RB

Its great that you are always striving to improve what is an already excellent site – keep up the good work!

All sounds good guys! But “Mooks”!? Gotta LOVE that! ;)

This is really exciting and I look forward to all the additions to the wonder that is RB!

Fab guys! I have my fingers crossed that the matted prints and business cards are really, really high up on the list!

Great to see this energy flowing! I love redbubble, it is a fabulous tool, and very user-friendly. What about a bumper sticker for redbubble.com. I feel that lots of artists know about the site, but maybe we could grow more art-appreciators. We need to aim some pr at the potential buyers, as many of we artists are maybe not starving, but… cheers!

Thanks guys, as always you amaze with the scale and scope of your plans. Always exciting, always keeping us involved and informed. Cheers

Sounds promising. Anything that makes it easier for people to buy from here has got to be a good thing.

How about improving the sales activity page, its not really giving us much info on the products we sold, and I thought it is quite important to have the details of sold pieces, like what colour tees, or how much we earned. Kinda hard to check the emails one by one when we have a sale activity page that isn’t doing much at the moment.

Great ideas, I would like to see square cards and prints with square frames too!.

Things are looking good.

Regarding Sales, how about making it easier, for the casual visitor, who doesnt belong to RB, to purchase our art??

Catherine..x

Awesome! can’t wait! what exciting times!

Everything sounds great.

Do you have a mix collection price on cards , say 12 cards of different artist work that one can buy?

love the ‘mooks’ and other ideas. fabtastic.

Love the mooks idea, the clothing label may have issues though. Looking foward to the things to come.

Hell yes I’m excited! You guys are pretty special :)

Awesome!!! this is only getting better!!!

Very exciting, looking forward to riding the next wave with you.
K :D

Postcards and business cards coming? Wonderful!!!!
Thanks for all your hard work!

Forest Frien, instead of a Mook, how about a Boogazine ! ! ! ! I think Mook is better. Postcards sound great. I already make and sell postcards on the paddleboat, P.V. Jandra, of which I am one of the Captains. Rb staff, keep up all that awesome work you are doing.

Business cards? Great.
How about T.Shirts in kids sizes?
Like Jason Anderson I think discounts on large quantities is a great idea. I’d love to be able to leave all production to RedBubble and just concentrate on the creative side at the moment proberbly most of us are trying to do both.
I’m so glad I found you!
Sandra Heath

Wow bubble your awesome, this site is great. To add my two cents worth.
1. Would love to see the option of setting margins on each product individually for those that like more control over this.
2. Kids sizes in clothing, I’d love to put my kids in some of these T’s but can’t.
3. Volume discounts on cards (and in future post cards).
But as I say I think it’s all Fab and appreciate the huge effort you guys put into to make this site so great. All the above ideas sound brilliant.

Cheers

you have it all wrong – wall art needs to be SMALL and have an option to do so. i don’t know of anyone that has huge wall space. the posters have to be huge – they should be smaller – it would be cheaper for them to buy and frame themselves. once behind glass, the paper can be any type.

further this site is set up like a church club. i don’t want to see comments on my work, if my stuff was sold or not, journal entries, etc. this site isn’t set up to sell to the public – only people from within seem to buy stuff. there aren’t enough options to print on things that people actually use and reuse – mouse pads, mugs, tote bags, stuff like that. cafe press has a huge selection and should be followed. but they have a terrible interface which you have to do heavy coding yourself to get it set up.

as a buyer of stuff – this is still my review of the site - not enough choices for prints. the prints are still random sizes, i want small posters, and maybe even a proof sheet that can be bought and shared over the people that were chosen.

i still want to know how many outside people buy from here. cafe press comes up fast in the search. and while bubble is getting there – i know for one i havn’t made any sales. yet those with work that really isn’t up to par in my opinion – sales… from who – who knows…. the art section is randomly chosen – half of it is old – its not a great advertising tool.

plus there should be bulk prices, and the option to print for something that can hang outdoors.

—-Mike Savad

i also think there are too many steps involved to buy something. every option for each type of things being sold should be on the screen. under each item – canvas, poster, etc, there should be sizing and price info, turn on the things you want to buy, and bubble in the sizes you want. it adds it up on the side. the current system is still actually confusing. restricted to a large screen (not everyone has a large screen). the sizing box is actually off the screen on small screens. that ain’t good. it should be super easy to buy something. i’ve been here a while and it still confuses me. it still confuses me why i can’t buy a poster (8×12) for example on each product. even if its less quality. most printers aren’t printed at 300dpi, they can be printed at less. i have no room for huge posters…

—-Mike Savad

i also want the option to not get mail from all the group leaders – ever notice that the Minimilist group not only mails the most, but has the most text??? weird? if i get mail i want it to be about me, and not the new avatar they have… can that be a feature to turn off? or to turn off journal entries as a watch list item – except for the bubble stuff (which should have the big red dot as an avatar), it gets lost with all the other silly avatars.

—-Mike Savad

Brilliant, cannot wait!

More choices in print sizes would be good and mat color choices too. I notice that where I can print a 13×19 photo from one of my pictures you say the format is too small even for a card. I guess my question is why is that? If I can print it why can`t you? Comes out great on my Pixma pro 9000 printer. As for shipping maybe using plexy instead of glass. I know plexy can scratch easily but it is much lighter. I don`t know how you ship out your product, if it comes from one location or if you have more then one place it comes from. If you have choice ship the product from the closest office you have. If you don`t have that option yet find places to open. Just some thoughts from a new person. Good luck in all your work. And thank you for what you do offer at this moment.

lol RB! Mooks is not a term we use for mags/books here! this is funny! we (or maybe us isolated west Cumbrians!) as a term for hooded youths (usually up to no good!) will take some getting used to, hey if it works for you! he he he …

another note, this site needs its own unique niche – how about emroidery on demand? sell hats, tshirts, etc, with your own option to include a pattern chosen from my folder, with their words then print that? - little Billies birthday, a train, on a white background on a train striped hat – that would be a cute party favor.

—-Mike Savad

while i’m at it, i’d like to have the ability to sort my own pictures into catagories. not just a private search (which would be good too), but to place each thing under stills, hdr, animals, etc. hard to go through that many pictures.

the same goes for the groups – nearly impossible to view through. can’t really find the new ones. and the search strictly relies on the keywords they chose for that group. i’ve typed in the name of the group in the search box – and it didn’t come up at all.

—-Mike Savad

I have an idea. Images on magnetic film so you can stick them on your fridge at home, or your office furniture. I am not talking piddly little fridge magnets, but A5 and up. Worth a try?
Chris

Sounds intense and exciting, Peter and Justin. Good to hear promising news for the writers. Great all round vision for the rb community.

I like your ideas – especially around the “mook” to book ideas – (www.blurb.com is a fine example of a high quality, low cost way to go) I would also like to put my penny in for more tools to create groups and organize my pics in general.
I hope this helps! I am already so pleased with RB; happy to hear your roadmap to more!
Cheers,
Linda

Photobooks and business cards would be great!

It just gets better and better.

This is all very exciting stuff! Can’t wait to see how it all progresses. btw any word on who all will have their work published in the “In The Moment” book? I’ve seen the top prize winners so far.

Cheers!
Scott

This is exciting!! The site is improving by the bubble!! Thanks to you RB, (or Peter and Justin) for keeping us informed. Love your ideas and the way you keep looking to expand rb in the future!
I can’t say enough about RedBubble team. Keep on with the excellent work!

SOUNDS LIKE ALOT OF FUN THANKS FOR THE OPPURTUNITY OF THIS WONDERFUL SITE LOVE YA

Stickers??

Ooooh it all sounds good

Excellent …. gets better week on week :))

Hmm, maybe calendars? Customers can pick 12 images they love from an artist and arrange it the way they want in a RedBubble calendar. :)

Great ideas.
Well, how about Bookazine, so it would be different from any other stuff that’s already established?

it all sounds wonderful!!! i look forward to participating and seeing all of this come to fruition! red bubble-—you rock!!! :)

Gr8 idea , that!.................. calendars
Also: the interaction is a great thing..not offered at the other 2 international art sites I belong to.

Suggestion re: Calendars: Would it be possible for another size? For example the Slimline size? Measurements I believe are 420mm x 140mm and Image size is 140mm x 140mm

all your ideas are great! i feel good to have a partner…or rather, partners, in my art venture who are sincerely hoping and working towards THE BEST.
thank you all…

think we can already do that megan… and WOW MOOKS WOW WOOW that rules. i want a mook. and… a kitten. and some chocolate. mebbe.

This site is the best site i’ve ever put my work on.
I can’t figure one thing out though, how to get your work on the featured section?

Yes I can understand the problem of sending oversized (4 Aus post ) ..I ended up having to take a large 120×60cms painting off the frame and rolling it up ..Still cost around $50 to send to Spain …

Agree with Chris, this is a wonderful site. And i am especially happy about the new clothing ideas, all over printing, and new styles and colors. One thing i would like to put out is that it would be really nice to have an organic option, whether AA or another brand. Alternative Apparel has a very nice line called Alternative Earth.

Can’t wait to see this stuff in action! :)

All your plans sound great…I’m most excited about the books, can’t wait…”You guys rock”

something else i would love to see is boxed sets of notecards, greeting cards, and postcards. But i am very excited about the new apparel and printing options!

fantastic..you folks are on the ball..thinking wise…mook..how cool is that….you all deserve a pat on the back..you listen to the artists and move forward..you rock

Thanks so much for all your wonderful work. All the plans sound fantastic. I have been making book marks with the RB log on it as I work in a coffee shop/book store and the propieter has been giving them away with every book he sells. Just hoping to help the cause. I’m very appreciative of the work you guys do on this site. Thank you so much.

Great job, redbubble! Keep it coming! I am so glad I found redbubble. You are the best! I wouldn’t be able to sell my artwork if it wasn’t for you. Thank you very much.

It sounds as if you guys are really doing some thinking and it all soun ds good to me. Keep up the great work. And thanks for being there for us.

Thank you for keeping us updated! They are all excellent goals and I hope we see most if not all of them achieved in 2008!

Hey guys – great ideas here – ever thought of giving artists the option in their upload screen to offer their images as stock – where RB control the higher res versions and take a cut of the payment. You know what I mean?

That’s cool…!!!

Sounds great. I like these ideas, but my 2 cents would be adding the ability to set up galleries (or series) more easily.

Awesome plans!!

Thats a very good idea… collections/groupings of work would be another fantastic addition.

Other forms of top (eg: hoodies, shirts etc), or maybe even trousers (might be a little difficult) would (in the more distant future) be a really welcome addition too.

If you guys get all those additions made “in the next few months” I think you will be able to safely say your one of the best arts and gallery site around!

I look forward to it all!

it is great to see how this wonderful site is evolving…brilliant work…and if you need a Scotland corrispondant let me know!!

Great ideas all. I’m new to the BUBBLE & I’ve seen a few changes made since joining & I have all the confidence in the world that you are doing the right things to help members get their art out there. I haven’t sold anything yet but I’ve got a feeling that will change due largely to your new plans for the future. Keep up the great work & thanks a lot for the opportunity to be a member of such a wonderful company.

Yes, postcards and calendars will be brilliant sellers.
Thank you!

I really love the idea of photobooks – I do some wedding photography and to be able to buy a photobook for the client instead of putting and album together would be fabulous

since you can put art on tee shirts…how about mugs??? we gotta drink, right??? (hope this want alreadt stated in any above comment…too many to read!)

wasnt there a ‘mook battle’ on Iron Chef the other night ? MAN ALIVE !

Volume discounts on cards and postcards.
I know it’s been said, just adding another voice.
I already have these printed elsewhere in 100’s and would love for RB to take care of printing them for me but based on the single unit price on RB, I’ll have to leave it with the existing printer.
Keep up the great work.

it would be really great to make/sell photobooks here…. please! :)

Great ideas coming through guys – like the sound of mooks.
The biggest complaint I hear from people on the Bubble is the fact that members of the public – buyers – can read the comments.

I’ve also been known to describe ideas as ‘ace’.

I reckon calendars with images from all ones favourites, rather than just ones own portfolio would be a winner too.

The mooks sound marvelous!! Love the free-flowing creative ideas here_~

Sounds good. Don’t feel pressured to deliver it all in one go. Make sure all the bugs are ironed out before making massive changes! I feel we could do with more competitions, any more lined up?

Mooks. Hmmm, how very exciting for those whose work will be included in such publications.

Honestly, lol, mooks very much sounds close to a number of derogatory slang terms for different cultures used by people during WWII… frighteningly similar, in fact…

This is the best site I have ever had the pleasure joining, you all are great. I am a newbie her, now all of about a week and half, and there is so much to do and more to get to know, but all in all, I am SO excited to be a part of RB. Any comments,remarks,recomendations, or suggestions would be so helpful for me and
be greatfully appreciated, Thank you, Melissa

hi i think you could get a lot of help from http://greenpostcards.com/
he uses green poducts and he uses wind power for electricity and he is a great person..he has quality postcards and cards…green
i love redbubble!!!!...love tami rush

Love the new ideas guys – especially the books. I’d also like an easy way to sort my work into series.

huh?

At least it is not an idea anymore! Something good eh?

Good ideas. My two cents worth is echoing a couple of others’. I feel the price of the greetings cards is too expensive (except for a one of special purchase). I know the price point reflects the quality, however I think you could print on a different stock & still have superior quality. I found that when displaying my Christmas cards (that arrived from a few RB friends) they buckled & fell over because of the weight. Selling cards in larger quantities would certainly be very viable with a good quality, less expensive model. A thought to ponder. Cheers

I’m new here, please could you explain why ‘buying’ and ‘selling’ Art is the focus of RedBubble? Is it to financially support the hosting/running costs of RedBubble as well as support cash-strapped Artists, (the first answer being, of course, a possible necessity, and the latter being a matter of choice), or is it because the commercialism of Art is a core philosophy of RedBubble’s Staff and the Artists who reside here? I by no means intend my queries to be offensive in any way, I’m just trying to guage whether or not RedBubble is an environment I will ‘fit into’ in the long term. For instance, if I don’t support the commercialism of Art and choose not to participate in the buying/selling of ArtWork, will I be perceived as being a less favourable member? This being said, I’d be more than prepared to make a donation to RedBubble for the hosting costs should it ever be asked for, as I’m continually inspired by many of the Artist’s creations here and appreciate the service.

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All sounds good to me…Good job RedBubble in keeping us informed…I’d just feel happier if I sold a couple of items…Love the creative freedom & chatting with different people from all over the world..>Thanks & buy me buy me lol ;) Bev, Cumbria, Uk.

Wall art needs to be big and we still haven’t been able to find a way to economically ship big wall art around the globe, so this is high on our list (still).

would love to see HUGE mounted prints – but with a mat finish please….

Mooks? oh yeah… sounds interesting

Tshirts… hmm, wasn’t impressed by the introduction of the long sleeved one with the same restrictive fit. Will wait and see….

Make it more buyer friendly – oh yes please

great news!

All Awesome – Cheers!!

It is great to be part of such an enthusiastic group. The new developments sound great, and I am looking forward to being able to customise the dates on my calendars.
Now I just have to get some fantastic stuff onto my page so that when it is so easy to buy someone will want to buy mine!

carisma,im in the same boat.lets see whats happening.have to run now.got a mook in the oven!

I stongly feel that more artistic work(poems and drawings ),should be permitted to be uploaded.The current quota,I think,is far too limiting…

Thanks for the clarification RedBubble. This is an inspiring community of writers and artists, you’re all doing a great job.

I agree with Sharon about the cards. It would be nice to be able to offer a more affordable card. I have bought HUNDREDS of cards & they do buckle & fall over. I can see the public buying them from me once, but not coming back for more when they find out their purchase falls over & buckles.

I also find the ladies tees to be very thin (the mens tees are thicker) & of a poor quality make, and they are way too long! I also had a tee of mine done & it is the most revolting thing I have ever seen – the colours are all wrong. Due to the above, I won’t be buying any more tees :(

I also found that some of the images on my calendar were too dark (my monitor has been calibrated). I ordered it Jan after this issue had come to light, & I did not expect the calendar to be printed & shipped until the issue had been resolved.

I don’t know anything about the printing process, but one of my images I have orderd as a mounted print, a pic in the calendar & as a card, and the colours are all somewhat different on each item, which to me seems to be a bit of a issue where consistency is concerned.

Other than these issues all is well, and keep up the good work :)

jesus loves you.

I am very pleased with RB, especially with the community spirit.
One suggestions: you provide html to run RB slide shows on other web sites, why not on RB itself? If somebody is looking at a bunch of photos, it is much easier to see them as a slide show. This should be working in any context – whenever I have several thumbnails on the screen, I should be able to see them by individual clicks or as a slide show.

Keep up the good work!

Bring on the MOOKS!!!!

would like to see a longer word count though….

Revised wall art products
1. Is the matted print a product that you’d be interested in? Yes.
2. Is the interchangeable frame something you’d be interested in? Yes
3. Do you want the want glass/perspex in the interchangeable frame (or nothing in front of the print)? Depends on the photo.
4. Would you be happy to sell your art as a matted print? Yes, with glass in front.
5. Do you want other sizes for matted prints? Yes – from small to large photos.
6. What other questions do we need to answer? Why are you asking such a small amount of money to the buyer? I dislike your front frame samples. Plus with the photo being 10”X15” the matting is too wide at 17”X23”. A buyer doesn’t wish to purchase a blah frame with over-sized matting. Increase the price and offer buyers a choice of frames and matting.
1. A. Are you offering canvas prints in various sizes? They are very popular now. Many people like the look of an oil painting without glass in front of the terrific looking frame.

Post cards
Our greeting cards still need some attention, but we’re also really keen to do post cards and some other printed promotional stuff that helps the artist sell their work and promote themselves. Selling multiple good quality post cards should be very easy if displayed properly keeping the quantity to a minimum of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25.

I suggest you include greeting cards. Do not low-ball the price, but give buyers a choice of phrases for the inside (like a Birthday card) or leave the inside blank to allow the buyer to write what pleases them.
Photo books
Calendars were a roaring success (and they weren’t even publicly available for sale), so we’re pretty keen to get a photo book product out there for everyone to buy. This is a wonderful idea, but what prices will the seller receive and the buyer pay?
More T-shirt options
We’re keen to have more colors and styles available to the buyers, as well as more options for the artist (like front and back printing, shifting the print area around on the tee, etc).
Better selling tools
As Pete recently discussed in the year ahead, we feel we’re in a partnership with the artists, and we need their help to promote their work and sell it. So we want to give you tools to do that. Business cards and post cards will help, but so will some technical stuff like allowing you to have a more product-oriented profile page and some more widgets to embed in other websites.
Personally, I’d really like to help other artists sell their stuff by promoting it, so that’s something we’re going to explore as well. I agree. However, Redbubble seems like a bubble gummer site (a high school or grammar school site, not professional), were your artists say, “Wow” or make an incomplete sentence. The members should tell what is good and bad, and how to improve the skills per piece of art/photo – If this took place, the seller will sell more. This will afford Rebubble to earn more money too.
Better buying tools
Not everyone is a buyer, but for those who come to RedBubble (or to your profile) with cash in their hand looking to buy something, we want to make it really easy. Before you consider better buying tools, you truly need to look at critiquing tools, so put marks in different colors where they need to improve.
Mooks and publications
In addition to In The Moment (on sale in a few days) and our current competition Gaia, Fran is working hard to introduce more periodical publications in the form of Mooks (not a magazine, not quite a book, get it?) to get more of your fantastic writing and art published. 1. Wikipedia is like an encyclopedia and no help to only artist. 2. I am a photographer and a journal photographer. 3. The photographer in me will post photos to websites. 4. The journal photographer will go to a magazine publishers by passing the middle man.
Redbubble is okay now, but it could be great for seller, buyer and Rebubble with some major changes. Please reread the above.

I would like to see a number count for photos in groups. Eg, “you have 5 of 10, you have 4 of 4” to be listed in ones groups list. It would make it easier to control which groups one can upload photos to. Otherwise this site is great.

Glad to hear that postcards are in the pipeline, also like the idea of photobooks.

I am new to this site, but I have already sensed an effort by the “Head people” trying to help any artist get the best they can out to the public and are looking for more improvements. I appreciate all you are doing and will be implementing in the future. May we all have a good year. Thanks, redhawk

Would be interested to see how many artists are selling at local markets. I’m one those photographers who sell at the markets with a range of products but have started promoting redbubble as a destination for my clients to go to purchase a great variety of good.
One thing I would like is promotional products I can use to help promote redbubble at my stall. E.g vinyl banners with redbubble and my details to hang at the front of my stall.
Would be interested to see if other artists could benefit from such products.
Just an idea.

This is all very exciting! I have been waiting for the busines cards so that when I take photographs and people want to know what I am doing? It would be much easier to give them one of these little beauties!

Whewwwww--are you tired yet-it all sounds AWESOME to me! If the plans turn out like your office-—we all will be okayyyy! Take a nap—and go at it!

We never stop thinking, that is what gives you success. I am proud of all you guys because I wouldn’t be here. It’s a privilage to watch your new ideas come true. Nice little hut you guys have too. I love the redbubble.

I’m glad you’re looking at larger wall art sizes, because I actually have to buy some from a local canvas printer. Not to say that RedBubble isn’t in my locale anyway, but …. it’d be nice to have access to larger sizes.

Ditto to business cards. Love this place … (although it’s relegated my own personal web site to second place, even though I’ve just had it redesigned. Sigh …)

I’m disappointed to see no mention in the road map of creating an option for sellers wanting to make use of the RB sales engine only in conjunction with their own website, or some kind of isolated RB hosted gallery that does not include links to the rest of RB community and is very configurable in terms of it’s look and feel.

For example, a web user should be able to arrive at my website, look at my photos (hosted on my site, not RB), decide to purchase and simply click a link (or operate within a small frame) that then sends them on a round trip to RB and back, just for the processing of the sale, without the end user ever being aware they left my website.

Alternatively, as mentioned, make the public view of “My Bubble” totally configurable so I can remove all headers and footers, delete all links to the rest of RB, change colours, possibly even change the domain name, etc. Basically strip away everything except the RB hosted gallery of my photos and the ability to purchase.

I like the community feel of RB personally, but it just does not seem appropriate for presenting my work in an exclusive, dare I say professional manner. The one thing I do love about RB is that it’s local. Dollars are in AUD with shipping from Oz. That’s the big, big advantage it has for me over it’s competitors. But at present I can’t make use of it as I would like to.

RB if you are listening, there could be an annual fee (to the seller) perhaps associated with this isolated sales only concept. That would perhaps offset its development.

Michael, we absolutely want to do that stuff. You obviously understand it’s a lot of work, but we’re headed in that direction for sure.

Yey! It all sounds very exciting.

Oh I can’t waaaait for the post cards!!!!!! They are such awesome things to send all around the globe!!
The greeting cards are so awesome already!!

sounds like some awesome things are in the works. cant wait to see how it all pans out.

Sweet Guys! I cannot wait!

Excellent… I want to sell…. and enjoy… MOOKS…. fun….

Some great new things on the way! Good news there!

I would also love to see a setup as Michael suggested, so users can setup RedBubble as only the sales engine, and running our ‘store’ off our own website. An annual fee for this would also be justifiable and worth it for me.
Glad to hear that we are headed in that direction Justin, the sooner the better…

Very refreshing to hear you folks openly discuss your stats and plans with your artist community. As an artist I am more than happy to point my links at this site because you clearly value the artist contributors.

At this moment I think this site is the best there is for artists..

Wishing you every success

If there were postcards I would buy hundreds!

Postcards would be great, I would by loads.

Selling callendars wasn’t specifically mentioned here and that is what I was looking for in the road map.

Also, I’m not looking forward to going through all the artwork to enable the new selling options … how about a button to add all the new options to all the existing artwork, then going through dissabling the ones I don’t want to have it would be easier.

How about when postcards are introduced, automatically enabling all cards to be postcards as well?

So does this roadmap mean that RB is content with their tshirt print quality? Because I know a lot of people who aren’t.

Is the fact that they’re printed overseas the hurdle or is it just going to remain in the ‘too hard basket’.