E-shop - Great Masters and Asbjorn Lonvig postershttp://lonvig.squarespace.com/e-shop-selling-print-on-demand/en-US2009-12-03T10:53:56ZSquarespace Site Server v5.8.3 (http://www.squarespace.com/)To art galleries: Art Gallery Support now with Motifs to Children...http://lonvig.squarespace.com/e-shop-selling-print-on-demand/2007/2/22/to-art-galleries-art-gallery-support-now-with-motifs-to-children.htmlAsbjorn Lonvig2007-02-22T17:59:55ZArt Gallery Support

Now Motifs to Children have been added.
Art Gallery Support is a new tool based on new technologies brought to art galleries from a unique triumvirate:
ImageKind.com, Seattle - Zazzle.com, San Jose - Asbjorn Lonvig

Art Gallery Support supports art galleries with facilities that makes it easy to order
ready to resell Asbjorn Lonvig motifs.
Art Gallery Support makes a large range of merchandise products to each motif available to art galleries.
Art galleries can customize these merchandise products with their name, exhibition information etc.
Among the merchandise products is an easy to customize poster.
Additional merchandise products are easily made available upon request.
An easy to customize brochure in a Word Document can be downloaded.

Supported are the best and most popular Asbjorn Lonvig motifs.
General motifs AND motifs to children.

Here are the general motifs:

See www.lonvig.dk/art-gallery-support.htm
for further information on general motifs.
AND.
Here are the motifs to children:

See www.lonvig.dk/art-gallery-support-motifs-to-children.htm
for further information on motifs to children.

Sincerely,
Asbjorn Lonvig
"Lille Fejringhus"
43 Fejringhusvej
8722 Hedensted
Denmark

]]>To art galleries worldwide: Order and resell World of Art Award Winning artist Asbjorn Lonvig's art works...http://lonvig.squarespace.com/e-shop-selling-print-on-demand/2007/2/19/to-art-galleries-worldwide-order-and-resell-world-of-art-award-winning-artist-asbjorn-lonvigs-art-works.htmlAsbjorn Lonvig2007-02-19T10:06:55ZArt Gallery Support

A new tool based on new technologies brought to art galleries from a unique triumvirate:
ImageKind.com, Seattle - Zazzle.com, San Jose - Asbjorn Lonvig

Art Gallery Support supports art galleries with facilities that makes it easy to order
ready to resell Asbjorn Lonvig motifs.
Art Gallery Support makes a large range of merchandise products to each motif available to art galleries.
Art galleries can customize these merchandise products with their name, exhibition information etc.
Among the merchandise products is an easy to customize poster.
Additional merchandise products are easily made available upon request.
An easy to customize brochure in a Word Document can be downloaded.

Below are the best and most popular Asbjorn Lonvig motifs, which are supported
by Art Gallery Support.

See www.lonvig.dk/art-gallery-support.htm for further information.

Sincerely,
Asbjorn Lonvig
"Lille Fejringhus"
43 Fejringhusvej
8722 Hedensted
Denmark

]]>Have a nice cup of Coffee: Buy Mugs with Asbjorn Lonvig Surround Art Motifs...http://lonvig.squarespace.com/e-shop-selling-print-on-demand/2007/2/14/have-a-nice-cup-of-coffee-buy-mugs-with-asbjorn-lonvig-surround-art-motifs.htmlAsbjorn Lonvig2007-02-14T21:23:19Z

Buy Mugs with Asbjorn Lonvig Surround Art Motifs.
Buy the Mugs at Zazzle.com in San Jose, CA. There are more than 100 different Mugs.
Below I have selected a few - click on a Mug.

Have a nice day.

Sincerely,
Asbjorn Lonvig
artist, designer etc.
http://www.lonvig.dk/
http://www.lonvig.biz/

]]>To computer enthusiasts in Kathmandu and elswhere: Buy Mouse Pads with Asbjorn Lonvig Art Motifs...http://lonvig.squarespace.com/e-shop-selling-print-on-demand/2007/2/9/to-computer-enthusiasts-in-kathmandu-and-elswhere-buy-mouse-pads-with-asbjorn-lonvig-art-motifs.htmlAsbjorn Lonvig2007-02-09T13:57:52ZBuy Mouse Pads with Asbjorn Lonvig motifs.
Buy the Mouse Pads at Zazzle.com in San Jose, CA. There are more than 100 different Mouse Pads.
Below I have selected a few - click on a Mouse Pad.

Have a nice day.

Sincerely,
Asbjorn Lonvig
artist, designer etc.
http://www.lonvig.dk/
http://www.lonvig.dk/
http://www.lonvig.biz/

]]>To kids in Shanghai and Spain and...: Buy a fairy tale hat....or just a hat.http://lonvig.squarespace.com/e-shop-selling-print-on-demand/2007/2/9/to-kids-in-shanghai-and-spain-and-buy-a-fairy-tale-hator-just-a-hat.htmlAsbjorn Lonvig2007-02-09T07:55:53ZBuy Fairy Tale motifs printed on hats.
Motifs from my Fairy Tales.
Buy the hats at Zazzle.com in San Jose, CA - you can order more than 100 different hats.
Below I have selected a few - click on a hat.

Have a nice day.

Sincerely,
Asbjorn Lonvig
artist, designer etc.
http://www.lonvig.dk/
http://www.lonvig.dk/
http://www.lonvig.biz/

]]>To women and children only: Buy printed Asbjorn Lonvig motifs on shirts...http://lonvig.squarespace.com/e-shop-selling-print-on-demand/2007/2/8/to-women-and-children-only-buy-printed-asbjorn-lonvig-motifs-on-shirts.htmlAsbjorn Lonvig2007-02-08T11:31:42ZBuy Asbjorn Lonvig motifs printed on shirts.
You buy the shirts from Zazzle.com/lonvig* you can order more than 100 different motifs.
Below I have selected a few on which you can click and order directly.

Click on a motif!

You will find all my MERCHANDISE products on my web site or on Art Portals.
If you or your child want other of my motifs on shirts - just send me an e-mail.

Have a nice day.

Sincerely,
Asbjorn Lonvig
artist, designer etc.
http://www.lonvig.dk/
http://www.lonvig.dk/
http://www.lonvig.biz/

]]>To US citizens only: Buy US Postal stamps with Asbjorn Lonvig Art Motifs....http://lonvig.squarespace.com/e-shop-selling-print-on-demand/2007/2/7/to-us-citizens-only-buy-us-postal-stamps-with-asbjorn-lonvig-art-motifs.htmlAsbjorn Lonvig2007-02-07T14:00:48ZBuy Asbjorn Lonvig motifs on US Postal stamps that can be sent through standard U.S. Mail.
You buy the stamps from Zazzle.com/lonvig* - you can order more than 100 different motifs.
Below I have selected a few on which you can click and order in sheets of 20 directly.

Click on a motif!

You will find all my MERCHANDISE products on my web site or on Art Portals.
Find the Art Portals in English on lonvig.dk/portal-en.htm.

Sincerely,
Asbjorn Lonvig
artist, designer etc.
http://www.lonvig.dk/
http://www.lonvig.dk/
http://www.lonvig.biz/

Zazzle.com is an approved licenced vendor
of United States Postal Service costomized PC postage

]]>Ties, mugs, T-shirts, caps, mouse pads, stamps, posters, cards....http://lonvig.squarespace.com/e-shop-selling-print-on-demand/2007/2/6/ties-mugs-t-shirts-caps-mouse-pads-stamps-posters-cards.htmlAsbjorn Lonvig2007-02-06T21:47:28ZThe first phase of my Art Portal project was based on on-demand print.
This next phase is based on on-demand manufacturing.
It means that the mayor, the priest and ordinary people can do their own personal designs
in ties, mugs, T-shirts, caps, mouse pads, stamps, posters, postcards...
I have prepared MERCHANDISE products based on my own art works.
70 MERCHANDISE products for New Hedensted , 55 MERCHANDISE products for Aarhus City, 18 MERCHANDISE products for Guggenheim Museum, 7 MERCHANDISE products for Shanghai Chambers of Commerce etc.
So far I have done 1200 MERCHANDISE products.
I found the software I needed in Silicon Valley - where else.
The customer must be able to customize my MERCHANDISE products.
The mayor must be able to decide himself where my motif is placed on his tie.

Click on a motif above!

You will find the MERCHANDISE products on my web site or on Art Portals.
Find the Art Portals in English on lonvig.dk/portal-en.htm.
Customizing takes place in San Jose (Silicon Valley).
My friends in Silicon Valley are zazzle.com and my new name is zazzle.com/lonvig*.

My project is maybe very ambitious. I have difficulties explaining what it is all about.
I wrote an article in WWAR Art News the other day.
As I got not much response I thought: Shit!!!
Shit, now I was again not able to explain.
And I became so sad - so sad.
But.
Yesterday a reader of my article wrote to me from New York: You are a genius.
Today the world renowned Iconograpfer Ilina Filipova from Malta expressed her enthusiasm about my ideas.
And she even has used them on her web site.
Another artist from Phoenix, Arizona intend to use my ideas in teaching illustration and advertising...........

Sincerely,
Asbjorn Lonvig
artist, designer etc.
www.lonvig.dk
www.lonvig.dk
www.lonvig.biz

]]>Largest Art Event Ever...http://lonvig.squarespace.com/e-shop-selling-print-on-demand/2007/1/13/largest-art-event-ever.htmlAsbjorn Lonvig2007-01-13T11:08:12Z
A new Michelangelo has been born?
A new Rembrandt?
A new Van Gogh?
A new Picasso?
No.
Larger.

The internet revolutionized computer business.
By accident.
Art has not been revolutionized by the internet.
Yet.
For the last month I have eagerly tested ImageKind.com.
In the Beta test and after the launch some months ago.
I knew ImageKind.com was right for me.
You create your piece, you load it up, you set price, that's it.
I have created 500 new peaces in 25 Galleries.
People around me are sure I'm in sane.
I was pleased about ImageKind's ambitions: To build the largest and best platform for buying, creating, and selling art.
Easy to say.
But.
Very, very hard to accomplice.
This morning, however, I knew the Art world would be revolutionized.
The revolution is around the corner.
Talks are going on between ImageKind and Amazon.com.
Amazon.com has what ImageKind doesn't have.
And what ImageKind probably never will have.
A brand.
The place you go when you want to buy online.
And a dream comes through.
I create my pieces, I load it up, I set the price and a customer looks at it a few moments after.
No Mr. 25 %, no Mr. 10 %, no Mr. 50 %.
No galleries, no curators, no museums.
No intervention.

Just me, the artist and the customer.

]]>My User Portal Concept...http://lonvig.squarespace.com/e-shop-selling-print-on-demand/2006/12/11/my-user-portal-concept.htmlAsbjorn Lonvig2006-12-11T10:30:30Za country, a city, a municipality, a museum, a company etc.
It shows and it has links to those art works that might be relevant to that specific user.
The User Portal logo is the arch of Septimus Severus in Forum Romanum, Rome.

Why User Portals?
The short and simple answer is to serve my customers better and to seve customers that are not familiar with computers, with internet etc.

I'll show you a User Portal.
I am building the Aarhus City Portal right now.
Aarhus City is the second largest city in Denmark.
Aarhus City has 225.000 inhabitants.
So, this user portal intends to serve 225.000 users.

The first thing to do is to create motifs that describe Aarhus City.
I went to Aarhus and found buildings and landmarks of Aarhus, that I could use.
The new museum, the city hall tower, the queen's summer residence, the Theater, a house in the Old Town, the cathedral and finally the old cathedral office in St. Clemen's Courtyard.

Today I finished these motifs:
artblog-29-aarhus-aros-art-museum (14k image)

artblog-29-aarhus-aros-art-museum (14k image)

artblog-29-aarhus-arne-jacobsen-tower (16k image)

artblog-29-aarhus-marselisborg (8k image)

artblog-29-aarhus-the-theater (9k image)

artblog-29-aarhus-old-town-mansard (13k image)

I load large files of all the images to print on demand contracting parties in Salt Lake City, Seattle, and San Francisco Bay Area. The images are approved at once in Salt Lake City and Seattle. In San Francisco the images might wait for approval.

First of all I use a User Portal logo.

artblog-29-portal (14k image)

The logo is of course a portal. In a matter of fact it is a very specific portal. It is the Arch of Septimus Severus, which was erected in the Roman Forum in A.D. 203 by the Roman Emperor Septimus Severus.
You can't study Roman history without visiting the Roman Forum once.
You can't visit the Roman Forum without passing through the Arch of Septimus Severus.
In this logo a BETA will shown in the big arch. That is because the 40 different User Portals, that have been launched so far are being tested.
The Aarhus City Portal is marked with a BETA, too.

See the Aarhus City Portal.
The motifs are presented. Here 7 motifs. You might see an enlargement by clicking on an image.
Then there are 3 sections. 1, 2 and 3.

1. The user must have some free titbit. So I give him the possibility to download three Word documents of each motif. Word documents that can be printed on the user's own printer.
I have to be aware of different formats in European and American standards. The European standard is A format and the American standard it is Letter format. The Aarhus City Portal probably will only be used by Europeans - therefore the A format is offered.

2. Here I guide the user to order print at print on demand contracting parties. One in Salt Lake City, one in Seattle and one in San Francisco Bay area.
By guiding to 3 print on demand contracting parties the users are offered a variety of sizes, prices, qualities and surfaces.
At the same time I keep track of what happens in this market.

The prices are kept low - the user only pays the base print price and internet costs. The user can order prints in sizes from 3.5 x 5” to 40 x 60” on paper and canvas – and some other funny surfaces like T-shirts, mugs, tote bags etc. etc. The print contracting party handles ordering and payment. The printing of course and the prints are sent directly to the user.

If the user wants to see some of the my other 750 images for print there is a link to the main pages in Salt Lake City, Seattle, and San Francisco Bay Area.

3. If the user wants something special. A painting. Limited edition prints. Signed prints. A huge print on canvas larger than 40 x 60" - no problem, he just has to contact me.

A brochure is available to each User Portal.
The brochure is of course used for initial presentation of the portal.
You can download the brochure Aarhus City Portal from the portal.

Thoughts.
Now what is the most important to succeed with these User Portals.
Is it to do excellent motifs? No!
Is it to simplify the User Portal? No!
Is it to make an extremely eye catching brochure? No!

It is to communicate the User Portal Concept to people that are not familiar with computers, with internet etc.
I can not do it myself.
I know too much.
Or!!!!
You might as well say I know much too little.

But.
Journalists know how to present this kind of stuff to their readers.
This week Ny Hedensted Portal and Ny Vejle Portal will have press coverage.
Tomorrow I'll translate the Aarhus City Portal into Danish and find a jounalist at the Aarhus newspaper Aarhus Stiftstidende.
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