Archive for December, 2005

Thumbtack Press 2005 Year in Review

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

Dear Executive Officers of Thumbtack Press,

As your President and CEO let me welcome you to our first year-end recap of how Thumbtack Press is doing and where we see ourselvcs in the coming years. First off, our first year consists of 2.5 months since we launched in mid-October, and secondly, we have no Executive [...]

William Schaff

Friday, December 30th, 2005

Thumbtack Press is proud to welcome William Schaff to our tackboard. William’s work speaks volumes as you can see by the above print “This is War,” if you are squeamish his work is not for you, but then again Thumbtack Press isn’t for a lot of people. I am blown away not only by his [...]

Merry Christmas!

Sunday, December 25th, 2005

From Tony, Sandy and Shane. www.thumbtackpress.com

Stop! Do not buy our prints!*

Sunday, December 18th, 2005

If a waiter at a fancy restaurant decided what you were going to eat without letting you order for yourself you’d walk out of the restaurant, right? That’s why nobody buys art *as a gift, it’s presumptuous.

Let’s face it, your taste in art is as varied as your taste in music, film, cuisine, travel (sometimes [...]

“Why are your frames so expensive?”

Sunday, December 18th, 2005

I get this question a lot. The short answer is they’re not that expensive, and here’s why:

  1. We don’t sell a single print that is a standard frame size . . . meaning you can’t go to your local frame chain store (which I wouldn’t recommend anyway) and buy a cheap ‘off-the-shelf’ frame for a [...]

Hey, that’s a cool logo!

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Thumbtack Press participant Josh Sears has a banner linked to us, great. But he designed it in his own unique way . . . I love it! I’ve never been wild for our current logo, maybe I should have a contest? Hmmmmmm. www.thumbtackpress.com