I want to thank everyone for the feedback, regarding the book idea. I'm extremely happy Andrea is cool with this idea too. Again, I know we're all busy and I'm hoping nobody feels pressured or anything. I think we all have a lot to offer, and maybe I'm being way too naive and optimistic, but I think we have a shot at a book. I just researched several publishers who I think would be into our work, including Chronicle, Phaidon, and Upper Playground, to name a few. At the end of the month I'll be e-mailing some people at Moleskine, to see if they can get behind us.
Some of these companies require about a three-to-six month wait for a reply, which is fine. In the meantime, we can still consider the online publishing route. I'm glad Jess has some contacts, and any help whatsoever is a good thing. We might want to consider doing a self-published book first then send it out to some of the pros afterwards even.
Again, I hope I don't seem to off-putting here, or gung-ho, but I don't want to see an opportunity for something good and let it pass on by, only to regret it later on. In the meantime, I hope everyone's doing well and enjoying the remainder of their summers, and thanks again for the feedback all!
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Very cool kids! What an interesting concept--and execution! LOL! I love these.
AS for the books, I think the idea is great and that the end product will be really nice. If any of mine make it, that will be an added bonus!
I think I've mentioned this, not sure, that I did some books of my art as Christmas gifts through Shutterfly and Snapfish and they came out looking FANTASTIC and very professional. I was really pleased, so it is easy to visualize how nice these would look! Whether we go professional or on-line.
Thanks Mary! Glad you like 'em.
Of course your art would be included. The idea is to include everyone involved. Anyhow, yes, Shutterfly and Snapfish are definitely other avenues to think about. Thanks for the input!
Shutterfly and Snapfish are fairly expensive though, so if a professional printer would take it, then that would be better of course.
But you can make the books and then people can order them themselves on those sites and also some of the others mentioned. I just wanted to say that I've tried the services and the results were quite magnificent. Well worth doing!
If anyone is interested you can see two of the artbooks I made (just for family) last year, here. Scroll to projects below. (Just below the iamges, not far.) These two are similar, I made a bunch of different ones with mostly the same images for different family members. These are all art pieces from last year. If yr not interested that's fine, but what IO wanted to say was, the books came out terrific, they looked just like what you see. Nice and glassy and brightly colored with good quality binding etc.
AK--if I could learn to type that would help--read images, glossy
Thanks Mary, you do some beautiful work! The books look very nice!
Let me know if you need anything from me, Steve. Unfortunately I have no good contacts ~ just will and determination!
Right on A!!
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