Applying to sell your art here: what we look for

Why three pieces

One piece can be luck. Three show how you work — whether there is a consistent hand behind them, whether you can hold a style across subjects, whether the quality is repeatable.

They do not have to be your three most impressive. They should be three that look like the work you want to be asked for.

Send work that suits what is printed here

This is a print shop. Work that survives being printed on fabric, ceramic and vinyl is what sells, which means bold, legible and confident rather than intricate.

A beautiful piece that turns to mud at mug size is a bad application even though it is a good drawing.

• Bold shapes over fine detail
• Consider dark and light backgrounds
• Send the largest file you have

Say which products each piece belongs on

You know your work better than we do. A piece that only works large should say so, and a piece that was drawn for a sticker should say that.

This is not a formality. It stops a customer buying your design on something it was never meant for, which reflects on you rather than on them.

Write the about section like a person

A few honest sentences about what you make and why beat a paragraph of art-speak. It goes on your public page in your own words, and it is what makes somebody read further.

What happens next

Somebody looks at the work properly and writes back either way. If we take you on, those three pieces go live as your first listings and your studio switches on so you can upload more.

If we do not, you are told why and the files you sent are deleted.

What tends to make an application easy to accept

Three pieces that clearly belong together, a sentence that says plainly what you make, and product choices that show you understand what printing does to a design. None of that requires a reputation.

What makes one hard is inconsistency — three pieces that look like three different people, or work whose quality cannot be judged because the files are too small.

Send the files you actually made

A piece exported for social media has been compressed and resized for a screen. Judged on that file, good work can look soft, and nobody can tell whether the original was better.

Send the largest version you have, even if it feels excessive. It is the only way the work is seen as you made it.

How to start

Everything runs through one place. Artists sign in at the artist studio, upload work, choose which products each piece suits, and see what they have earned. Customers browse the artwork, pick a design, and choose what to put it on.

Nothing about it is exclusive. You can sell the same work elsewhere at the same time, and there is no listing fee and no minimum.

• Apply with three pieces so we can see how you work
• Choose which products each design belongs on
• Get paid by bank transfer on what sells

Common questions