Calling all artists, illustrators, designers, and photographers!
License your designs, increase your exposure, and earn extra CASH!!
We’re looking for good artists, designers, illustrators, and photographers to feature their work on our new “Scrabble Pendants!” These unique accessories are hand-made from reclaimed wooden “Scrabble” tiles, and coated with a jewelry-grade, high-gloss resin. Each pendant measures approximately .75″ x .75″ square and features a unique design or miniature work of art. Since there are so many designs to choose from, customers can find that perfect gift for someone they love, or they can build their own collection. Pendants are easily added and removed from necklaces, so customers can choose the one that matches their mood, matches their outfit, or makes a statement!
If you’re a good artist, designer, illustrator, or photographer and would like to see your work worn and adored on our new jewelry line, and earn some extra money, then we welcome your designs! Most artwork can be miniaturized much better than you might believe, or cropped to highlight the most attractive elements of your work. All designs submitted to us will be reviewed and either rejected or accepted into our design library database. From there, we will choose designs for actual production and sales. If your design is selected for production, we’ll notify you right away by email and get to work!
By submitting your designs you give us the option of licensing your work for our jewelry, in return for royalty payments. We would get NON-exclusive rights to produce your fine designs on jewelry–this means you maintain ALL rights to your work! This is a perfect way to earn some “extra cash” for designs!
For each pendant sold with your design(s), you would receive $1.00 in royalties on retail sales, and $0.50 in royalties on wholesale transaction.
If you ever decide, for any reason, that you don’t want us to use your work anymore, you can cancel the agreement at any time. At that point we’ll have 6 months to sell off the remaining inventory containing your designs and, of course, send you your royalty payments.
Furthermore, if we like your art enough to license it, we also want to help promote you, the artist! Each licensed work of art will be listed in our online stores and catalogs along with a description, artist info, and a link back to your site or portfolio. Artists that we particularly favor, with designs on several pendants, will get additional exposure through our “Featured Artist Collections.”
This is the perfect opportunity for artists everywhere to increase their exposure, drive more traffic to their site, and make some extra cash from their work!
If you’re interested, please read our Submission Terms & Agreement before sending any designs.
Images should be at least 300×300 pixels at 150dpi or higher.
All submissions should be sent to:
art@bitesizejewelry.com
Please put “New Submission” in the subject line if this is your first submission
All submissions must contain the following information:
- First and Last Name
- Email Address for PayPal Payments: if different than the one you are contacting us from. If you don’t have a PayPal account don’t worry, we’ll send you an email that will guide you through it with ease.
- Artwork for Licensing on our Jewelry: please send as attachments
- Info About You/Your Work: or a link to the same. We use this to help us market your designs on our listings.
- (Optional) Derivative works: if you do not want any adjustments made to your work, such as color adjustments or adding text, then please write “no derivative works.” Size and cropping changes must be allowed, however, to format designs for use on jewelry.
Additional information is welcome, but not required. Your info is for our use only; we won’t share your information with any 3rd parties.
Do not send any artwork unless it is your own, and you own the copyright.
Don’t forget to attach your artwork before you send the email 
We may have many submissions to process, but we’ll get back to you as soon as possible!
We hope to cultivate many mutually profitable and long-lasting relationships with artists, designers, and photographers around the world! Perhaps yours will be next….
Thank you for your interest!
note: the above designs are not for sale but are provided as examples only
FEATURED ARTIST EXAMPLES IN OUR STORE:
FEATURED ARTIST EXAMPLES ON OUR BLOG:
Featured Artist: Brian Rubenacker
CUSTOMER COMMENTS AND TESTIMONIALS:
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July 31, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Brooke Medlin
What a great opportunity! I’ve submitted some photography.
August 1, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Andy Mathis
I would consider licensing artwork for scrabble tile pendants.
I would even take them to Atlanta wholesale gift show to promote them along with my original paintings.
you can find my store on Etsy, and on ecrater (linked through my blog).
and I have a licensing portfolio online if you wish to browse through there also.
August 8, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Valentina
I love the idea!
I’ll send some of my artwork
August 9, 2008 at 6:05 am
Ching
Hi, I had submited some photo of my artwork and I had also mentioned about this on my blog.
http://www.ching-teoh.blogspot.com
thank you
August 13, 2008 at 6:31 am
Marcia Baldwin
Terrific new venue. I have submitted new art for the bite size jewelry !!
Have a great day !!
http://www.mbaldwinfineart.com
August 13, 2008 at 4:51 pm
catherin mcmillan
sounds like a great idea. Ive just sent some images for consideration too.
looking forward to seeing your shop open.
catherin
August 15, 2008 at 12:10 am
jessicadoyle
Hi Bitesize!
I’m so happy you changed from exclusive to non exclusive rights. I will be submitting artwork to you momentarily.
Cheers! And by the way very nice to see you blogging on WordPress
August 16, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Andy Mathis
you are off to a great start, but can I make a few suggestions? Trust me, it will save you some headaches down the road.
I’ll post them in a comment, as others might be interested in general information too about licensing agreements. Please delete the comment if you feel that it isn’t anything that you want to share.
First off, you licensing agreement, should be written. It protects you as the manufacturer, explains key details for the artist.
It should state- what image, what item is it for, the royalties rate, and for the length of time. Most licensing contracts are for 3 years. If you want to discontinue a design, that’s fine to let someone out of their licensing contract early, so they can pursue other avenues, but you don’t want artists randomly pulling designs. If you go to the trouble of setting up a wholesale catalog, you should have access to the design.
It’s fine that your agree is non-exclusive, and artists are free to use their image or design on other products. For example, a design on a pendant can be licensed to a coaster manufacturer. BUT, it should be EXCLUSIVE for scrabble tile pendants, for the contracted length of time. You don’t want artists to make and sell their own pendants, with the design. They become your competition. Or you don’t want the artist to license the same design to other scrabble tile jewelry makers, at the same time. If the artists wants to sell scrabble tile pendants in their store, wholesale the pendants to the artist.
And lastly, your royalty should be a percentage. Not a dollar amount. For example, in 6 months time, you might find you need to adjust your wholesale or retail prices- either raising them or lowering them. A percentage keeps everything constant on your royalty scale.
That’s about it. Again, I hope you don’t mind the feedback this early in the game, but it really is in the best interest for you, as the jewelry maker, and for the artists.
August 20, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Jed & Brandy
Thanks for the feedback Andy! We want Bite Size Jewelry to be a huge success, so comments and criticisms are more than welcome.
Our initial licensing agreement was actually exclusive and more similar to what you’re describing. However, this limited the number and quality of submissions we received significantly. After receiving feedback from many artists, we adjusted the agreement accordingly and kept it more open and less risky for the artists. After all, we’re just getting started so it’s understandable that some artists are wary about exclusive rights this early on.
In the future however, we may update the agreement. We’ll see how things go from here.
Thanks again!
- Jed & Brandy Steen
Bite Size Jewelry
September 2, 2008 at 3:44 pm
catherin mcmillan
just read Andy’s comments and I agree a contract keeps it all above board for both you and the artists. listing which designs the artist has with you is also a plus as they will then know which style is selling well when the roylaties start arriving.
a 3 year contract is the norm. though some companies like to start off with a 1 year contract to see how the design will be received then if all is going well they will extend it.
Personally I think an exclusive contract for scrabble piece jewelry is a good thing.