One of the best things about spending so much time at home is rediscovering lost passions or even developing new ones. If you have a strong creative streak and have found yourself painting, doodling, or sketching more than usual, you could start your brand and develop products with the help of Pixels.
Pixels is a business that's been helping out independent artists since 2006 — and it's one of the rare companies that's profitable without debt or investments and connections to Silicon Valley. Their mission has always been to help artists turn their creativity into businesses, transforming images into high quality, museum-worthy prints and products. Their print-on-demand service is one of the largest sites of its kind in the world and powers online sales for 500,000+ independent creatives and iconic brands (including Vanity Fair, GQ, Vogue, National Geographic, and more).
This massive online art marketplace is the world's largest — and you can join the hundreds of thousands of independent artists all over the world who use Pixels to sell everything from wall art to home decor and apparel to other printed products. You're pretty much only limited by your creativity. If you've already been dabbling into manufacturing options (like where you might print abstract T-shirts or cool mugs), you've probably run into issues with availability, quality, or cost. Pixels relies on a steady, pre-vetted base of 16 manufacturing centers located in five different countries that run 24/7. The orders you make will always be manufactured at the location closest to you, so if you're shipping from your own little headquarters (like your apartment), your order will always be manufactured at the location nearest to you in order to minimize delivery times and shipping costs.
All you need to do to sell art online is open an account, upload the images you want to use, select the products you'd like to sell — and that's pretty much it! You can set your own prices and even start selling directly through Pixels, so you get exposure to a massive audience located all over the world. In addition to the service of their online marketplace and fulfillment operations, Pixels also provides artists and photographers with the sales and marketing tools to give you a little clarity around gaining an audience and selling your work. You'll learn to accelerate your career and use those tools to set up branded web stores, sell prints on Facebook, create e-newsletters, and much more.
Here's a sample of the incredible products you could sell:
Apparel
Whether you want to make a cool matching sweat-suit out of your latest watercolor painting or print your favorite photo onto a t-shirt, Pixels is one of the largest e-commerce clothing retailers in the world. You can check out their massive collection of t-shirts with unique prints by artists like yourself. All are made using premium garments from Bella + Canvas, with thousands of different style, size, and color combinations perfect for women and kids alike.
While Pixels sets the base price for each garment, you are in control of the additional markup — meaning it can be as high or as low as you like. All clothing products ship from one of Pixel's global production facilities within one or two business days — see how you can create your own printed apparel here.
iPhone Cases
Most likely, you use an iPhone case to help protect your phone from drops and spills — but instead of the standard boring case, you could print your own with something you design (and sell it). Pixels has cases available for all iPhone models, including the latest iPhone 12. Each case is custom manufactured in two to three days and comes with a money-back guarantee — see how you can create your own custom iPhone case here.
Yoga Mats
Many people are working on getting fit while at home, and something that makes any mat workout a little less painful is seeing a beautiful design underneath you while you break a sweat. Pixels also sells custom printed yoga mats — each yoga mat is 24" x 72" x 0.25" and made of eco-friendly PVC. All the yoga mats are printed on-demand and available to ship to any destination in the world within two to three business days. Learn how you can create your own custom printed yoga mat here.
