Showing posts with label designer info.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label designer info.. Show all posts

Thursday, November 18, 2010

how to apply for A Handmade Christmas.

Applications for Handmade Canberra's second book will be out some time in 2011. Watch this blog for more information.

Friday, October 22, 2010

High Tea Event at Dalton's in Canberra

Dear Designers,

If you haven't received an email outlining our fabulous line up of events for the launch of handmade living, please email Louise to have it resent.

One of the main events we're hosting is a gorgeous high tea at Dalton's bookstore on Sunday 12 December at 10:30am. W're inviting 10 designers to be part of this exclusive event, by hosting thir own card-sized table, showcasing their wares.

This will be display-only and although items can't be sold, you're welcome to do up order forms and provide cards and all your contact details to prospective buyers.

This will be a casual 90-minute event - you won't be required to stand at a table all the time - we'd love you to mingle with guests, have a cup of tea and sign books!

There's only 2 spots left - so get in quick if you want to be part of this glorious high tea. Contact Tania now.

And don't forget, we also have a book signing at Paperchain bookstore in Manuka on that same day - at 2.30pm. We'd love you to come along and sign books - bring your friends and family!

Monday, September 6, 2010

Organising a handmade living party or launch?

Hi all!

We are getting closer and closer to book launch time and some of you are expressing interest in hosting or organising a launch event of your own, in your own home town. If you are interested in connecting with other handmade living designers from your area or state, please email Tania - who will be happy to put you in touch with other designers.

We will be holding several book signing events here in Canberra, too, and will soon be inviting you to participate - more news soon!

The Handmade Team

Friday, August 27, 2010

Complimentary Copies and Wholesaling

Hello gorgeous designers!

We've had a query from a designer over the wholesale price for copies she wishes to buy for personal use. Good question!

Remember, as outlined in the Designer Info pack and also on this website, every designer who appears in the book receives one complimentary copy. These copies will be available for pick up in Canberra from 4 December or by mail (in which case the designer pays postage).

Orders for books via the Handmade Canberra website or in stores or at the Shop or Market won't be offered at a wholesale price. The wholesale price of handmade living is for onselling only. This is for designers who wish to sell the book. We worked hard to strike this deal with Dennis Jones & Associates so that designers could make a nice little profit by onselling – and also, of course, so the book reaches a further audience.

Wholesale price therefore isn’t available unless you wish to onsell the book. Obviously, it's important this is adhered to.

Do be in touch if you have any more questions about this.

Only a few months now until handmade living is born!

Warmest wishes,

The Team

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Book Launch Parties

Have you all read through and absorbed your media kits? Already we have had several designers begin to talk about creating a fabulous launch party - in their own town, and it's all very exciting.

How much fun would it be to have simultaneous launch parties all over Australia? Our launch party here in Canberra will be on Friday 10 December - in the early evening. Maybe you, too, could organise your launch party for that time, and we could feature photos from your parties on the blog.

Think about inviting your local media, facebooking about it and getting loads of people to come along. Some designers are organising demonstrations of their products in the book, too - such great ideas are coming to the fore.

Make sure you email us with your plans so we can help you promote!

The Handmade Team

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Media Kit

Hello everyone!

We have just sent you all a media kit by email, outlining ways you can promote yourself in handmade living. We've also included a suggested timeline to help you whip the next few months into a publicity frenzy that should bring plenty of attention to your business.

If you didn't receive the email or need more info, please contact us. Have fun!

The Handmade Living Team

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Book has gone to print!

Hello everyone!

Well, our book files have today left for the printer and now begins the long process of to-ing and fro-ing with proofs and having the book printed and assembled. It's a very exciting time and we are soooo thrilled with how the book is looking; we can't wait for you to see it!

Very soon we will be providing you with information on how you can wholesale handmade living, and will also be providing you a media pack that will allow you to begin your own promotional quest - highlighting your involvement in this book will be a phenomenal way to bring attention to your own business.

We'll also provide you with a timeline that will allow you to make the most of the book's launch, and of course - you are all invited to the launch party in Canberra on 10 December! Why not think about having your own book launch party where you live?

More soon...

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Promoting yourself!

Well everyone, we are moments from finalising your GLORIOUS pages. I cannot even begin to tell you how stunning this book is looking and it's all thanks to YOU! We are just thrilled.

Very soon we'll be sending files to print, then the long, agonising wait begins... BUT in the meantime, we will be very busy starting the handmade living. promotional train - departing from Canberra and travelling the entire country (and New Zealand!) with news on this incredibly beautiful and totally unique book.

Can you believe you're part of such a beautiful, unique Australian book!?

Very soon we'll be getting you some information on how you can jump on that promotional train and use handmade living. as a way to promote and bring nation-wide attention to your business. When this information arrives, read through it carefully and if you have further questions, don't hesitate to contact us.

We'll also soon be releasing information on how you can wholesale and onsell copies of handmade living. - not only to make yourself some extra dollars, but to use the book as an incredibly effective marketing tool for your own business.

Coming soon!

Tania

x

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Yes, you can start promoting!

Dear Designers,

The Handmade Canberra website has received an unprecedented amount of hits in the hours after revealing the handmade living. cover. We've already received a heap of pre-orders and one of the country's major magazines has even requested a review copy!!!

Some of you are asking if you can use the cover on your blogs and websites - yes please - do it! Promote and celebrate as much as you can - tell everyone you're inside this luscious book (although don't reveal exactly what! that's a surprise!).

Your friends and family can pre-order copies on the Handmade Canberra website now and we'll let you know soon how you can organise any wholesale copies, if you wish to onsell the book.

It's still early days - but boy are they amazing ones!!!

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Address for Posting

Some of you are scouring the website looking for an address to send submissions to... please check your initial instructional email (with your invoice attached), which outlined exactly where to send everything(!).

The address is also at the end of every email we've sent you - in the email signature. It's NOT the PO Box.

:)

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Less than One Week til Submission Deadline!

Less than one week 'til submission deadline!

We are so excited about your glorious work coming in - keep it coming! The quality and presentation has been just gorgeous and we are thrilled to compile and put all this together for you. The hours are incredibly long but we are loving it!

Remember, work cannot be late or it will miss the production boat (quite literally). If you are going to have trouble getting work in on Friday, please be in touch with Tania asap. You don't want to risk having your work cut from the book.

We're so looking forward to having all your work in hand by Friday and prepping your pages beautifully for printing.

We'll keep you posted!

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Photographer Credits

Hello fabulous designers!

All is going wonderfully with book production - we are well underway and your pieces are looking amazing! Thank you to everyone who has already sent in their work - and if you do not have a feature, you should have everything to us by now, or on the way.

Don't forget to send us any photographer credits. We will not be chasing these, so make sure your photographer gets the credit they're due, if this applies to you.

Hope you're having fun!

Tania

Friday, June 4, 2010

Copyright Confusion

A small handful of you are still confused about copyright.

We do not and will never own copyright to your products or ideas. It is the feature in handmade living. that we own copyright to. Text, layout, design, photos if we took them for you.

The handmade living feature we create with you is exclusive to us, for use in the book. Its appearance in the book is under embargo until publication date, essentially meaning you can't announce to the world "Look at my gorgeous product I've been making for 20 years and will continue to make for another 20 years - it will be featured in handmade living!" This is why we've asked you to keep your product's appearance in the book to yourself.

This doesn't mean you can't sell your product, promote your product, talk about your product, blog about your product, use photos of your product. We just ask that you don't reveal what you are having featured in handmade living until after publication date.

You have and always will retain copyright to your item, to its marketing, sale, promotion and intellectual property, now, whilst in the book and forever more. It's just the printed feature that handmade living owns copyright to (as with every publication ever created).

Please do contact us if this still isn't clear.

Sunday, May 30, 2010

In Production

handmade living. is now well under production, with items starting to come in - there's some gorgeous projects in-hand right now!

A few housekeeping notes...

Remember, the deadline for receiving all submissions is Friday 25 June. This is only a few short weeks away and we regret that any late submissions risk being pulled (with full refund). We need to strictly adhere to production schedules if we want to get this book printed on time. If you think your submission will be even a day late, you must let us know NOW.

If you only have to send in a product for us to photograph, or a product photo and short blurb, please get these in asap; we do expect these simple items well before the deadline.

There will be no business logos or relevant fonts printed in handmade living.

The quarter page and half page features are not 'advertisements'. They are editorials and will be written to reflect this.

A reminder that the handmade living. team has full editorial control over photographs, text, layout and design of your piece. We are experts with a lot of experience and are aiming to make the most of your work, whilst still fitting the style and theme of the book. Your work will never, in the least, be compromised, however, we remind you to let go of all expectations or preconceived ideas on how your work will appear in handmade living. If you are concerned about this, please email Tania.

In parallel with publications of all genres, no pre-publication drafts, photographs, proofs or layouts are shared outside the production team.

As pages come together, we have to say, the book is looking stunning. Hang in there... the book's launch in December will be here before we know it!

Happy creating, everyone.

the handmade living. team

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Using Product Photos After Publication

Good morning all,

Some of you have queries on utilising photos of your products post-book-publication.

We hope the following answers your questions, but please don't hesitate to contact us if are still unsure.

If you are sending us a photo that you took, the copyright remains yours and you are giving us permission to print the photo in the book, royalty-free. We do ask that you refrain from posting this exact photo online or anywhere else until the book is published. If this photo has already appeared on your website or elsewhere, that's fine so long as you don't mention it will be in handmade living.

If you are sending a photo that your friend or a photographer took, the copyright remains to that person, and they are giving us permission to print the photo in the book, royalty-free. We do ask that you refrain from posting this exact photo online or anywhere else until the book is published. If this photo has already appeared on your website or elsewhere, that's fine so long as you don't mention it will be in handmade living.

If we are photographing your item for you, the photo will remain copyright of handmade living. and cannot be used anywhere else except in the book.

If you would like to promote your product by referencing your article in handmade living., this would be wonderful - so long as you utilise the ENTIRE ARTICLE - that is, photograph and any text, scanned and copied directly from the book. You can use this anywhere you like, so long as you always reference handmade living. each time you do so.

If you wanted to gain access to any photos we have taken of your product, you can purchase copyright from the photographer, and the cost will vary, depending on who takes the photo. You can purchase similar photos but not the actual ones used in the book. If you purchase these photos, you will obtain ownership and copyright.

As already stated on this blog and in your designer info pack, you have full rights to the work that appears in handmade living. and can sell it, use it or promote it any way you like, now, yesterday or tomorrow. We just ask that you do not mention that particular product will be featured in handmade living. until after publication.

Any more questions, please ask.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Parcels Are Arriving!

So much fun to have parcels arriving in the mail - boxes and packages filled with designer treasure! It's like Christmas and birthdays all rolled into one and it's so fabulous to see the talent unfolding before us. Photographs are being taken and pages are being assembled... it's so exciting.

Just a reminder when you send your parcel in, please remember to write Tania McCartney or Tina Snerling - whomever you're sending it to - on the package. Having no name makes it very difficult when receiving a registered parcel.

Keep 'em coming!

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Regarding Sneak Peeks and Copyright Issues

Hi again all,

There's a teensy bit of confusion over your copyrighted work for handmade living.

Your Products

Your products are not copyrighted to us - their appearance in handmade living. is. In the designer info pack, we stated that any of your products appearing in handmade living. are completely owned retained by you - of course, you can continue to make and market and sell and these products without any commitment to us - in the future or even right now.

If you have photos of your product being featured in handmade living. on your website or blog, either now or in the future, that's perfectly okay. If you mention alongside that product, however - "this is going to be featured in handmade living!" that is giving away our content! and so we'd ask that you don't mention this until post-publication. After the book is published, please feel free to mention this anywhere and everywhere (in fact, we encourage it!).

Photos

Any photos you provide us do not become copyright to handmade living. They are retained by you or your photographer. We are only printing them with your (or your photographer's) permission.

Any photos we take of your products are copyright to handmade living, and are retained by us. You can't use these photos at all, anywhere else. Once the book is published and if you want to use the book as a marketing tool for your business (we hope you do!), you are asked to use your entire piece in its entirety - with both photo and text, so long as you mention the book each time.

If you would like to obtain copyright and ownership of some of the photos taken by us, you are more than welcome to talk with the relevant photographer, and we can put you in touch with them. They will offer some heavily discounted prices on any similar photos (that are not used in the book). You will gain copyright and ownership of these photos and you also won't pay a shooting fee! So please let us know if you'd like to take advantage of this.

Thank you to all of you who have sent back your copyright confirmation emails. Remember, you need to state in writing that the work submitted to handmade living. is your own, in its entirety. Apologies for these extra asks, but these things are a publication requirement.

Hope this clears things up - please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or concerns about any copyright issues.

Friday, May 21, 2010

Please Don't Give 'Sneak Peeks' Of Your Work

As book enters its production stage, we realise designers are really thrilled and excited about their place in handmade living.

Although we know it's very tempting to show friends, family and even your blog readers (!) a little peek at the work going in handmade living. - and we know how utterly excited you are to share - please remember that the work you're creating is copyrighted to handmade living. and it's not ok to showcase even a teensy peek at the work going into the book.

This kind of 'secrecy' applies to all publications - so please remember to keep all images, ideas, text and even in-process parts of your beautiful application to yourself.

If you have posted a peek on your blog or website, we'd be enormously grateful if you could remove it.

Thanks everyone for your understanding!

Julie, Tania and Tina

x

See Regarding Sneak Peeks and Copyright Issues for more info.

Monday, May 17, 2010

Deadlines for Publications

Deadlines for Handmade Canberra publications must be strictly adhered to.

Due to the monumental task of compiling these amazing books and the fact that there are only a handful of us, any late applications, feature submissions or payments will automatically lose their placing and will have to rejoin the queue.

Any late arrivals will NOT be chased by us, and your place will automatically be offered to the next designer in the queue. We apologise in advance for this, but we take pride in offering plenty of time for designers to apply, submit and pay.

Please do NOT apply for our publications if you cannot apply, submit or pay on time.

Deadlines for A Handmade Christmas will be posted mid-January.

Friday, May 14, 2010

Book is Almost Full!

Dear Designers,

What an exciting time it is for the handmade living team - we are busily compiling your design ideas into our pages and it's going to be amazing!

Since offering two new packages, we've been inundated and the book is almost full. From early next week, we are going to have to unofficially close any extra applications, as we need to get started on book production, and in order to do this, we need all pages cemented in.

If you are still interested in submitting something, you will really need to get it to us asap. You are welcome to send in your application next week, but please be aware it's very unlikely it will be accepted from Monday onwards.

Great work, everyone! We can't wait to show you this book!

Julie, Tania and Tina