February 2011
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The Rad Dad Collective: Interview With Camilla... →
January 2011
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Adam Funn - It Deserves Your 5 Star Vote →
A good friend, and talented writer/film-maker Josh Wagner has a short film in a competition where he could win financing to make it full-length. It’s a totally awesome short film. Help him win!
“We are currently fighting a neck-and-neck battle to win a $500,000 financing contract to turn our short film, “Adam Funn” into a feature-length movie.
Our chances of winning...
[Exclusive Interview] A Little Bit On: Tony...
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Orlando-based Taiwanese artist and co-owner of the design brand Mai Hiro, Tony Nakanari takes the time chat with us about his super-slick painting technique, tight deadlines, his work for the lifestyle brand KusoPop, and he just might even drop a bit of news about a new artist series figure release on the way.
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Negotiation Advice →
My Way, Your Way, and This Way
We are all negotiators; with our customers, our vendors, our employees, and our families. Negotiation traditionally boils down to each party taking a firm stance on an issue. Each side states—and re-states—their position, until one side makes concessions, or they come to an impasse and give up. The problem with this is that the more we clarify our positions, the...
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Licensing Art Books
Here are a few books that are worth reading for anyone who wants to learn more about licensing your art, I recommend these books, which are the first books I bought and read several times as I navigated the waters of learning about art licensing:
Licensing Art 101 || Michael Woodward || a complete and handy overview, including a directory with names of agents, publishers, and resources
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The Girls and Animals of Camilla D'Errico Are... →
Continuations: Don't Compete - Change the Game →
A very similar theme to what was covered in Zag, and what I referenced in my post a few days ago. Very interesting!
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I know that “don’t compete - change the game” can easily be seen as kind of a trite slogan. But I still find myself in many meetings with startups where the strategy can be summed up by: our plan is to do this better than our competitors. While out-executing others...
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Li & Fung Acquires Beyonce's Company - Beyond... →
Is this a good thing or not? I’m impressed when companies can grow their brands to the point where the giants come in and buy them in order to ‘expand’ them globally. Similar thing happened with Saban Group buying Paul Frank Industries.
I see it as a sign of success - the ‘big guys’ want you because they think they can make more money from the brand and have the...
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Gene Simmons' Formula For Success →
He’s not just KISS’ base player. He’s an entrepreneur. And he’s the mastermind behind the KISS multi-million dollar merchandise and marketing machine.
Some of the tips he gave, as featured speaker at an event: LISTEN, SAVE, DIVERSIFY, CONDUCT PROPER DUE DILIGENCE and SPEND OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY TO MAKE IT TO THE TOP (if you wanna rock n’ roll).
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Camilla d'Errico Fan Art →
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Sales And Marketing: How To Generate Repeat... →
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Its easy to convince yourself that your customers will coming back with repeat business because they’re thinking of you when a problem or opportunity arises, but its just not so. Modern life presents us all with many daily challenges and we forget sometimes who we need to reach out…
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How The Principles in the Business Book "Zag"...
Zag is another great book by Marty Neumeier (I had read “The Brand Gap”) about brands, and what you can do to make your brand stand out and succeed long term.
Even though the book was written for ‘brands’, businesses and companies selling products or services, it is still very relevant for artists and creatives because at the end of the day, you are marketing yourselves as...
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Kamerakozo: My Favorite Artists →
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Camilla D’errico
Camilla D’errico is my favorite artist of all time. everything she does is beautiful and inspiring. most of her work involve girls with crazy things, mostly animals, on their head. I meant Camilla at the 2010 NYC comic con. I felt like such a stalker but it was worth it.
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Ron Nicolaysen - New York Photographer →
This is the website of my friend, Ron Nicolaysen. He’s a photographer in New York with a history that includes fashion photography in Milan and Paris for the major magazines, documentaries in Antarctica and even a project for the United Nations.
He does these workshops now where he takes people around New York, half as tour guide, half as photography instructor. How cool is THAT?!
I met...
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Being The Boss (a book) →
Article in the Harvard Business School “Working Knowledge” newsletter about a new book called “Being the Boss: 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader”. Looks good and applicable to my situation now. Will pick up a copy - on my shiny new e-reader!
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It's Official, I'm going to Toy Fair! →
Another one of my epic last minute trips has engrossed me these past couple of days. Looks like I’ll be in New York Feb 12-16th for Toy Fair. And I’m quite excited - will get to scope out the show floor, the companies, the products - and to see whether d’Errico Studios will have a booth there next year promoting Tanpopo and Helmetgirls!
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Tons of Comments for Camilla
Last Monday Dark Horse posted a press release announcing Camilla’s art book. They also had a blog post inviting people to submit comments about why they love Camilla’s work, with a chance to win a sketch that she had drawn just for this announcement.
The blog got over 120 comments! The Dark Horse PR team says they don’t get nearly this many for other posts. But it isn’t...
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dadomani - Works →
on my way to see the guys at Dadomani Studio! They are the first and best stop-motion animators in Italy. Can’t wait to see what they’ve been working on!
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Art Licensing Agents
Lots of people ask me if I’d consider taking on other artists: to manage, to rep and to be an agent, to help them get merchandise and licensing deals like I do with Camilla. How I would love to! There’s so much fun stuff we could do and build and promote. Alas, I cannot. There’s simply not enough of me to be able to give others what I am dedicating to Camilla.
So, for those...
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New Camilla d'Errico Merch on Artsprojekt
Posted some new merchandise to Camilla’s Artsprojekt this morning. Slowly but steadily creating collections based on certain images. There’s lots of great stuff on there! Like this new iPhone Case.
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Win an original piece of art by Camilla d'Errico!... →
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Classic Hardware : Spring 2011 →
Check out the new Classic Hardware collection, featuring new accessories with Camilla’s images: bracelets, lockets, and victorian oval pendants. Coming soon to the online store!
Alex Pardee Faces His Own Demons Through His Art -... →
Congrats to a great person, a fantastic artist and one of the nicest people I know! Alex totally deserves the props he’s getting for his solo show — and how great that he’s gotten so much big press coverage!
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The Province article about Camilla d'Errico & Dr.... →
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