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The power of storytelling while selling your art

Brands have known this since the 70s, governments since, well, more or less forever. You don’t get your message across by stating facts, but by evoking emotions. And the best way to do so is by telling stories that captivate…

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What we say to others we also say to ourselves

Imagine the last time you had a conversation with someone about a topic you understood better than him or her. It may have been in the form of advice or as a casual interesting conversation about a topic they were…

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Things are empty without beliefs

All the things we cherish so much are in the end nothing but stuff. The wristwatch I had gotten from my grandfather, who got it as a parting gift from the Yugoslavian airforce after serving almost 40 years, is nothing…

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Do you need a portfolio website if you’re already active on social media?

About 20 years ago almost nobody had a website, let alone a personal web portfolio of his or her work, but with WordPress and Squarespace came the era of portfolio Websites. While having one is much cheaper now than it…

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Visual communication in the age of Instagram, VR and Purple Cows

More than 50% of people worldwide now use phones to do their surfing and by looking at the statistics, the trend is only getting stronger. But to have a mobile ready webpage that can deliver the same experience on a…

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Why be an artist?

Some see more than others, even though looking in the same direction. It’s not so much being an artist — everyone is an artist, not by choice, but by nature. Ideally a person becomes a carpenter by profession because he…

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What if Edison taught the art of grant applications

Since our first day in school we are taught that we only get a few chances to prove ourselves, only a few times that we can take that test that will determine if we are worthy and capable or if…

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Emotion vs. Fact: The Persuasive Powers of Art

We all know more about how we should live our lives than we do in actuality, be it knowing not to eat fast food, drink the 6th cup of coffee or smoke that cigarette, we know almost for certain that…

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What does bad conceptualism have to do with art sales?

Where I come from, we haven’t really seen any upward movement from the private art market since the 90s (not even when almost everywhere else art sales boomed) and as a result there is now not only a high percentage…

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Borrow like an artist, it’s not that great getting sued

Many of us may be familiar wit the book Steal Like an Artist by written by Austin Kleon. In this book he describes how countless famous artists have been “stealing” other artists styles, ideas and just about anything else that they deemed…

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