20 Steps to Art Licensing: How to Sell Your Designs to

20 Steps to Art Licensing: How to Sell Your Designs to Greeting Card and Gift Companies

(Updated December 2013) A booklet on how to license your art to companies that publish greeting cards, and manufacture coffee mugs, magnets, wall hangings, kitchen items, and dozens of other gift items. This booklet covers 20 basic steps from how to prepare your art, to what companies to contact. It includes topics on: How to find agents, classes and what trade shows to attend. There are extensive resources on social media, licensing community groups, copyrights, and lists of interviews with professional designers ( 6,700 Words).

Author Kate Harper has worked in the gift and greeting card industry for twenty years and has designed over 700 cards and gifts. She started her own handmade card business and serviced over 2,000 accounts including Barnes and Noble, Whole Foods Markets and Papyrus. She then transitioned into designing products for other companies and her cards are currently sold throughout the United States and Canada. She also writes a blog for Greeting Card Designers and Writers.
Country USA
Binding Kindle Edition
IsAdultProduct
ReleaseDate 2010-12-01

20 Steps to Art Licensing: How to Sell Your Designs to Greeting Card and Gift Companies