November 13, 2014

ArtCorgi created a collection of custom artist commissions featuring Silicon Valley CEOs + Founders, and personally delivered them as custom ArtCling wall art!

If you live in Palo Alto, it sounds like you’ll get a chance to see an ArtCling up close, because over the next few weeks, Simone and Malcolm have plans for a promotional stunt — they’re going to create portraits of startup CEOs, then stick them on their office doorways…

Tech Crunch

We decided to have some fun at the end of October and commissioned a series of art commissions featuring the CEOs and founders of startups in our local area to say hello and give ourselves another excuse to commission awesome art. We tried to give each portrait a theme inspired by the founder/CEO’s respective company. For example, we put Alex Karp of Palantir in a Lord of the Rings-inspired outfit with a palantír (a magical object from the LOTR series) in his hand. Once the commissions were finished, we had them printed on life-sized ArtClings and delivered each piece of art, along with some ArtCorgi stickers and homemade snickerdoodles, to the startups’ offices…

Simone Collins / Founder, Art Corgi

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ArtCorgi Artist Portraits of Palo Alto Startup Founders + CEOs:

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ArtCling Launches Custom Wall Art and On-Demand Artist Murals:

ArtClings are created on demand at the Walls 360 wall graphics factory in Las Vegas and shipped globally. “When creating ArtCling we wanted something new, not just a vinyl decal or an old fashioned wall graphic,” says ArtCorgi CEO Malcolm Collins. “Walls360 is the only company in the world that could provide the quality we needed and the final product is truly astounding. It has to be seen and felt to be believed”. The team knew they were onto something hot when guests couldn’t walk by the prototypes in their office without stopping and reaching out to touch them, searching for brush strokes. “We can’t wait to see what ArtCorgi artists and customers are going to create as custom ArtClings,” says Tavia Campbell, Founder and COO of Walls360…

Tech Cocktail

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ArtCorgi co-founders Malcolm (CEO) and Simone (COO) Collins (yes, they’re a couple — Malcolm proposed to Simone using commissioned art) created ArtCling in partnership with Walls360, a company that prints images on adhesive, non-damaging fabric. Basically, “ArtClings” are sturdy-looking posters that you can stick straight on your walls and peel off again without any damage…these pieces are more affordable than most print-and-frame services — pricing starts at $15, and the company estimates that a mural, which can be assembled from multiple ArtClings, won’t cost more than $1,500. Put another way, Simone said that on ArtCorgi, the artist’s fee was usually lower than the cost of printing and framing the art, something that didn’t sit well with her given the company’s aim to “democratize art.” Malcolm added that most printing processes were created for “the old world” of physical art, while this approach, with its affordability and flexibility, “really makes digital art producible in a way that’s almost native to it.”

Tech Crunch

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An ArtCling is a poster-like printed fabric that you can stick to any wall without damaging anything using Walls360 technology. You can then reuse it or move it to another room whenever you need to. The clings are so sturdy that you can crumple it up in a ball and the wrinkles will disappear once it’s smoothed onto the wall again. Pricing starts around $15, but larger custom murals could be up to $1,500 (still much less than a painted mural commission). You can order everything from illustrated family portraits to abstract designs to beautiful photography, though most featured have a cartoon-like quality…

Brit + Co