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Sneak Preview – New Star Wars Canvas Prints
Here’s your chance for a sneak preview of the new Star Wars limited edition canvas prints from ID-WALL.com
The new hand numbered print collection is made up of 12 designs, available in ID-WALL’s signature ready-to-hang chunky style. All prints will be issued with an official Certificate of Authenticity and will be on sale towards the end of February.
ID050100 Darth Vader Enters Tantive IV
ID050110 Darth Vader v Luke Skywalker Lightsaber Battle
ID050120 Death Star Space Battle #4
ID050130 Death Star Construction
ID050140 Star Wars Trilogy Poster
ID050150 Boba Fett Profile Collage
ID050160 AT-AT Walkers Advance
ID050170 The Empire Strikes Back Art #2
ID050180 Death Star Space Battle #5
ID050190 Luke Skywalker
ID050200 Emperor Palpatine Darth Vader Royal Guard
ID050210 Death Star Space Battle #6
© 2010 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All rights reserved.
Tony Curtis Art to be published by ID-WALL
Tony Curtis Licensing Program Secures Partnership with ID-Wall
ID-Wall to offer limited edition gicleé canvas prints, wall murals, photo wallpaper, traditional framed art prints, acrylic prints and metal prints featuring Tony Curtis artworks and photographic images.
Las Vegas, NV, October 12, 2009 – “The Tony Curtis licensing program’s push beyond celebrity licensing and into art licensing gains tremendous momentum resulting from the newly secured partnership with ID-Wall,” says Michael Feder, CEO of Fame Farm licensing and marketing firm representing the Tony Curtis licensing program.
Tony Curtis & Marilyn Monroe on Couch
Tony Curtis’s spectacular body of screen work includes starring roles in Spartacus, Houdini, Operation Petticoat and Sweet Smell of Success. The actor may be best known for his role in Some Like It Hot, named by the American Film Institute as the funniest movie of the past 100 years. Tony Curtis received an Academy Award nomination for best actor in The Defiant Ones.
Also an internationally renowned visual artist, Tony Curtis creates brightly colored impressionistic paintings, drawings and assemblages reflecting the glamour of his movie-star status, his generous nature and his zest for life. The subject matter of his paintings include domestic still lifes featuring floral and cat motifs, landscapes, celebrity portraits and self portraits. Curtis’s artwork is featured in prominent galleries, private collections and distinguished museums including New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Considerable demand for Curtis’s artwork dictates a busy exhibition and personal appearance schedule with his original paintings commanding in excess of $50,000 per canvas.
Tony Curtis - Floral Tritych
“We are excited to partner with American screen icon and visual artist Tony Curtis,” says Tim Bennett, Managing Director, ID-Wall Limited. “Tony Curtis is an extraordinary and inspirational talent with a tremendous base of enduring admirers. We value his current worldwide promotional book tour (The Making of Some Like It Hot, My Memories of Marilyn Monroe and the Classic American Movie) and expect this significant marketing campaign to translate into increased visibility and reap high sales figures,” adds Mr. Bennett.
Tony Curtis & Marilyn Monroe - Del Coronado
ID-Wall, headquartered in the UK, offers exclusive licensed imagery from prominent brands, artists and photographers to the worldwide market. Their expertise is positioned with the presentation of iconic affordable art, produced on-demand, to suit individual and distinct size, media and volume needs. The firm will offer limited edition gicleé canvas prints, wall murals, photo wallpaper, traditional framed art prints, acrylic prints and metal prints featuring Tony Curtis artworks and photographic images.
The partnership was brokered by Fame Farm licensing and Marketing Firm representing the Tony Curtis licensing program.
To view the new collection, please visit :
http://www.id-wall.com/brands/67/0/1/tony-curtis-the-art-of-hollywood-prints
Terminator Salvation – NEW Limited Edition Art Prints
The Terminator Salvation Limited Edition Art Programme features the work of Martin Laing, Terminator Salvation’s Production Designer, focusing on his incredible landscapes and characters. The artwork is just stunning and offers a rare insight to the production process. The editions are a superb collectible for any fan.
Terminator XRay TS22 Limited Edition Art Print
Terminator Salvation is released in the UK on June 3rd, and promises to be a brilliant action film propelling one of the most successful film franchises of all time to new heights.
- Terminator Salvation Los Angeles Limited Edition Art Print
The year is 2018.
Judgment Day has come and gone, leveling modern civilization. An army of Terminators roams the post-apocalyptic landscape, killing or collecting humans where they hide in the desolate cities and deserts. But small groups of survivors have organized into a Resistance, hiding in underground bunkers and striking when they canagainst an enemy force that vastly outnumbers them.
Terminator Salvation Golden Gate Skynet Limited Edition Art Print
Controlling the Terminators is the artificial intelligence network Skynet, which became self-aware 14 years earlier and, in the blink of an eye, turned on its creators, unleashing nuclear annihilation on an unsuspecting world.
Terminator Salvation Marcus Endo Skeleton Limited Edition Art Print
Only one man saw Judgment Day coming. One man, whose destiny has always been intertwined with the fate of human existence: John Connor (Christian Bale). Now the world is on the brink of the future that Connor has been warned about all his life. But something totally new has shaken his belief that humanity stands a chance of winning this war: the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger from the past whose last memory is of being on death row before awakening in this strange, new world.
Terminator Salvation Moto Terminator Limited Edition Art Print
Connor must decide whether Marcus can be trusted. But as Skynet adapts new strategies to end the Resistance forever, Connor and Marcus must find common ground to take a stand against the onslaught—to infiltrate Skynet and meet the enemy head-on.
To view the full print collection go to :
Python Goes up the Wall!
Python Goes up the Wall!
Monty Python Features on New Range of Canvas Wall Art
PPC Enterprises has just announced details of a new deal that will see evergreen favourite Monty Python featuring on canvas wall art from ID-WALL.
Python is celebrating its 40th birthday this year and is just as well loved now as it was in its 1970s heyday. Classic catchphrases such as ‘And Now for Something Completely Different’ and ‘Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition’, have entered the lexicon, and cult Python films such as ‘The Life of Brian’ and ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ have legions of devoted followers, young and old.
Monty Python BUS STOP - Canvas Print
The creation of an official Monty Python channel on YouTube has led to Python becoming available to a whole new generation of fans. This has led to a surge of interest in this classic brand and PPCE have set up a series of Python licensing deals, including apparel, voice key chains, and dress-up whilst Forever Famous Clothing has been signed up to produce a range of Python branded T-shirts, which are now available across the High Street in big-name stores such as Next and ASOS.
Monty Python Lumberjack no1 - Canvas Print
ID-WALL already works with some of the biggest brands in the world, such as Star Wars™ and Universal Music Publishing, and the new deal will see the licensed imagery specialists creating canvas wall art featuring iconic Python characters and catchphrases. The first collection of limited edition prints will be made available on the licensee’s retail website in May – www.id-wall.com
Monty Python and The Holy Grail One Sheet - Canvas Print
Mark Hurry, legal and commercial director at PPC Enterprises, is delighted with the new deal: ‘Monty Python is in the enviable position of being a classic brand that appeals to all ages – it has an incredibly loyal fan base that is being constantly added to by people who weren’t even born when the first shows were aired. Licensees across a wide variety sectors are showing huge interest in the brand and the ID-WALL deal is further evidence of this. There is likely to be plenty more to come from Python!’
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Art – QUANTUM BRANDING JP TREVOR
JP Trevor - Leviathan
QUANTUM BRANDING JP TREVOR
By P. Scott
JP Trevor - Leviathan in the making
You’re an art student fresh out of a degree show and Saatchi wants to rep you and eventually brand you. Fine.
But what if you’re already an established artist with serious collectors’ critical praise, even having been bestowed with the title of creative ‘genius’, and you want to be branded – because until you are, nobody in the ‘Frieze’ contemporary art scene, where the stakes are highest – will take you seriously, nor will your work reach well-deserved branded prices, but people like Saatchi, Gagosian, Serota, Joplin, don’t want to know about you. What do you do?
Unless your Rolodex includes these ‘superstar’ dealers of the contemporary art world, you’re excluded from receiving the wave of their wand that can transform art like JP Trevor’s, into a multi million pound commodity. The solution is to wave your own wand, gather together a marketing and PR team and do it yourself like Jack Vettriano and Damien Hirst, the wealthiest living artist.
Some critics might wince at these two names together, but they both use the same tools: marketing and PR.
This paper is about branding A-list artist JP Trevor, also known as ‘Phoenix’, without the blessing or endorsement of the Gagosians and Guggenheims of the tightly controlled ‘members only’ elitist art world, who would like you to believe that traditional branding is a complex process, that only they understand it or have the power to make happen. In fact it’s a very simple equation; it’s a marketing exercise par excellence accessible by whoever wishes to carry it out.
The book, the $12 MILLION DOLLAR STUFFED SHARK, by Don Thompson, exposes contemporary art branding and the elaborate smoke and mirrors these people have a vested interest in to use, to manipulate the art market at the top end of the pyramid. So far they have kept the market small and opaque, and hugely profitable, through a strict control of supply and demand, showbiz tactics, ego, lashings of hype, fear, greed and even underpinning – tactics that are essential when considering that much of the art on the uber contemporary scene cannot stand on merit alone – but some of these tactics, when applied to great artists, magnify the economics.
With books like SEVEN DAYS IN THE ART WORLD by Sarah Thornton and the one above by Don Thompson, the veil of mystery is lifting off the branding process, revealing a gleaming template that in the hands of a crack marketing team can be very rewarding.
THE BRANDING TEMPLATE EXPOSED
Esquire 2008 – ‘THE ART OF THE MATTER’
An explanation from an ‘elite’ art panel interviewed by Esquire, of the benchmarks and factors that determine which works are good and which are not, that make a JPT more desirable than a work by X, are as follows: ‘The answer lies in a complicated and elaborate system of approval and endorsement by which an artist’s work has to be talked about, written about, sold, bought and selected for exhibition by a network of experts in both the public and private sectors. If a sufficient number of these individuals hold the same view, this consensus amounts to an endorsement and the quality of the artist’s work is assured’.
Sound familiar? It’s marketing.
JP Tevor - Blue God III - Stripes
These same principles, used with hype and Hollywood showbiz, are very powerful, so much so that they can sell coloured dots – that the artist did not even paint – for six figures, a couple of square metres of canvas painted in the same colour for £10M if painted by Yves Klein.
And they will insist that to be branded successfully, the artist’s work has to be in major public institutions, reputable collections of contemporary art, have an auction record, museum presence, and although some of this helps, it all sounds very worthy; they will deny that these pre-branding ethics are not nearly as pure as they appear – but at an auction at Sotheby’s Sept 15 2008, the sale was underpinned by the artist’s very own primary dealer, who bid on an estimated 44% of the multi-million pound lots in the big evening sale.
And they will probably not even answer your question; how did Jack Vettriano become branded without their blessing? His works are hardly in any of those ‘established’ places, and he is rejected by the ‘Frieze’ art world. So why is he a ‘brand’ nevertheless? Because of intelligent marketing that means one of his paintings recently sold for £700,000.
THE BRANDING SPARK OF LIFE
During my research into the ‘mysterious’ world of branding, I was determined to find someone ‘inside’ to confirm that branding depends on one thing initially. A pivotal moment of truth happened when I walked into a gallery in London’s West End on Feb 6 2009 and said to the director that a well known institution and general opinion had put a value of £1M on JP Trevor’s thirty foot painting LEVIATHAN. The director said, ‘I cannot see how X, who I have a great deal of respect for, can just put a value of £1M on it, I mean people will want to know why it’s a million, there’s a reason, what’s the reason?’ I said nothing and let the moment of resistance pass. Then he said, with great courage, ‘But then again, all it can take is someone to say ‘I love his painting, I love him, how much do you want for it, a million? OK, let me write a cheque’, and that does it (branding)’. The director’s three words, ‘that does it’, and admitting ‘there’s a lot of froth in the branding process’, blew the veil of mystery and the ‘rules’ outlined in SHARK clear out of the water. Quantum branding was born.
JP Trevor Canvas Print - Leviathan #2
Hang two paintings side by side at Frieze Art Fair. Apply the full branding hype outlined in SHARK, to one painting, but no buyer comes forward. Then X comes in, looks at the other painting, and writes a cheque for £1M. Which painting will get instant media interest, world coverage and offers to the artist of PR representation?
Therefore a high profile sale of a flagship work is essential to establish ‘branding’.
QUANTUM BRANDING
The dynamics are mostly the same as covered in SHARK, but more streamlined due to less self-serving politics, hence the term ‘quantum’. The primordial soup of the branding equation is ignited when X purchases a stunning work like LEVIATHAN, valued at say £1M. A publicist and marketing team takes it from there.
Post Branding Management:
SELL / PROMOTE / CURATE / ENDORSE.
JP Trevor Canvas Print - Gotham City
INVESTING IN JP TREVOR
JP Trevor, also known as ‘Phoenix’, is an artist who has exceeded the boundaries of excellence. He is a diamond in the rough; whoever cuts it stands to gain. His rich artistic history, body of work, and maîtrise in the purist sense makes branding essential. Not to do so would be a serious cultural and social faux pas, and an insult to the artist himself, when a pile of fortune cookies (Christies May 2003) sells for six figures and an actual pile of dirt sells for €17,000 – ‘Der Letzte Dreck’ ‘A pile of Dirt’, 2007 by Hans Schabus at Art Basel.
JP’s art is in collections all over the world including that of Florence Jay Gould. He’s considered by the film and design industry as one of America’s top ten artists. In 2001 Christies gave him a whole page to himself in their Film and Entertainment catalogue and sold one of his original ‘pre-production’ oils of GOTHAM CITY (BATMAN I). In 1998 he was flown to Russia by the ex-Soviet Union’s leading star to design a major rock musical next to the Kremlin. The Russian press dubbed it ‘Best Concert Design by a Foreign Designer’’. His awards include the coveted CCA and Lurzer Archiv for best TV commercial design.
JP Trevor is frustrated at being told he’s a ‘master’, that he should be ‘worth a fortune’, of receiving critical praise, and yet when he approaches Tate Modern and the Larry Gagosians of the art world, the door is shut, preventing branding, when it’s clearly obvious to his reputable collectors and serious critics this accolade is long overdue.
JP Trevor - Blue Gods
It’s a basic industry tenet that if the mammoth work LEVIATHAN by A-list artist JP Trevor, is bought by well known X for the magic seven figure, and exacting and intelligent marketing and PR management is in place, branding will occur and the post-branding harvest from his future works, especially considering his rich and controversial back story – a publicist’s dream in itself – stands to be very profitable to whoever carries his career forward. The momentum, the body of work, the credentials and the story are there.
JP Trevor, ‘I have the right stuff for this to happen. I want my life’s work so far, to be acknowledged and capitalised on; branding me makes sound financial sense. I’m not where I should be in the art arena and serious collectors and critics know it. I’m not yet branded because my speed-dial doesn’t have the right names in it. But I’m now better informed about the concept and process of branding – it’s marketing. I realise, like Sarah Thornton, that I can write my own branding rules, so I’m looking for a team’.
LEVIATHAN
This is modern art at its finest – in technique, skill, beauty and spirit – and was inspired by film design. The thirty-foot painting is meticulously fabricated by hand in fine draughtsmanship. It is a painting that’s pushed the boundaries of excellence, that was in itself a test of technical stamina and physical strength.
At the unveiling in 2004 of LEVIATHAN, an ‘unknown metropolis’, that took one hundred and ten days to create without a break, two hundred people, including disciples of Norman Foster and Richard Rodgers broke into spontaneous applause as the cloth came off.
Some who have only seen a large print of LEVIATHAN, refuse to believe it was created by hand, but Harrison Ellenshaw who trained ‘Phoenix’ in California and knows of his skills, said of LEVIATHAN “Very, very impressive’.
JP Trevor Canvas Print - Leviathan #1
INVESTING IN ART – A SAFER TANGIBLE CURRENCY
Even without the branding effect, ‘good’ art is an investment. Great art takes the stakes higher when adding branding.
‘AN’ 2008. ‘As record sales draw in more and more buyers of contemporary and modern art, more financial infrastructures get into place. Launching 1 July 2007, the London based organisation Artistic Investment Advisers (AIA) set up the Art Trading hedge fund – an investment fund charging a performance fee, open to a limited range of investors – signing up established artists and aiming for an annualised return of 30%, claiming to have found between ten and fifteen economic indicators and securities that make it profitable’.
‘Art is viewed more and more as an alternative asset class, an investment category compared to cash, property, bonds, shares’.
Owning top end art that you love also announces that you are cultured and refined; it becomes part of a positive identity. Savvy collectors buy not for always for display (showing only reproductions) but as negotiable assets to be locked away. With the crisis and with tangibles like gold on the rise, great art has never been a more solid investment.
Contact ID-WALL for more information : info@id-wall.com
JP Trevor - Blue God AH I Burst
Essential reading:
THE $12 MILLION DOLLAR STUFFED SHARK
Ideal Home Show – Alison Cork’s Bargain Hunter LIVE
ID-WALL have teamed up with Alison Cork’s Bargain Hunter LIVE at this year’s Ideal Home Show to showcase a handpicked collection of art prints and wall stickers.
Carles Gomila - Good Luck - Limited edition fine art print
We are also offering 10% off ID-WALL products for all Ideal Home Show visitors who register and shop online.
Online discount code = IDHSBHL10 (Just enter on your “Shopping Basket” page)
Standard delivery leadtime is 10-14 days – worldwide shipping. FREE UK Shipping on orders over £100.00 inc VAT.
http://www.id-wall.com/brands/61/0/1/bargain-hunter-live-ideal-home-show-09-prints
The War of The Worlds – Exclusive Fine Art Prints
Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of The Worlds
“The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, he said…….”
ID-WALL are delighted to announce the official launch of the new and exclusive Jeff Wayne’s The War of The Worlds fine art collection.
Thunder Child - The War of The Worlds - Limited Edition Print
Jeff Wayne’s musical adaptation of H.G. Wells’ classic novel The War of The Worlds is one of the best known and best selling musical works of all time.
Canvas Prints and Acrylic Wall Mounts are available in this stunning collection of original album artwork. ID-WALL ships these limited edition prints worldwide in 10-14 days.
Artists include Michael Trim, Peter Goodfellow, Geoff Taylor and Stephen Doig. The print collection consists of paintings and pencil drawings reproduced to Fine Art Trade Guild standards in two high quality numbered formats.
Brave New World - The War of The Worlds - Limited Edition Print
To date the Jeff Wayne album has sold over 15 million records around the world and has been adapted into several foreign language versions. It has charted in no less than 22 countries, been number 1 in 11 of them and achieved gold or platinum status in all but 5 of them including a staggering 10 times platinum in the UK, 10 times platinum in Australia and 13 times platinum in New Zealand.
The album has topped the charts in both English speaking and non-English speaking territories, has won two coveted Ivor Novello awards, and, significantly, remains today one of the consistently best selling albums. Three decades on, world-wide sales show no signs of faltering.
Handling Machine Designs - The War of The Worlds - Limited Edition Print
2009 sees the 30th Anniversary of the release celebrated by a worldwide tour of the musical. For ticket information and more details visit the official website : www.thewaroftheworlds.com
© Copyright Ollie Record Productions 2006. All Rights Reserved.
Soundtrack :
Jeff Wayne\’s Musical Version of The War of The Worlds
For prints go to the website :
http://www.id-wall.com/brands/48/0/1/the-war-of-the-worlds-prints
Star Wars – Aren’t you a little short to be a Stormtrooper
As official Lucasfilm licensee since 2005, ID-WALL has continued to develop the unique Star Wars classic saga canvas print collection. Featuring limited and open edition canvas prints, each hand-crafted piece is manufactured to order in UK with painstaking attention to detail and issued with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Stormtroopers Blasters : Star Wars Canvas Print - From £44.99
The Empire Strikes Back Art 1 : OVERSIZE Canvas Print - £89.99
Stormtrooper training stressed complete indoctrination in the tenets of the New Order, and individuals would obey their officers without question, without regard to the rights of others or even to their own safety.
These aren't the droids : Star Wars Canvas Print - From £54.99
Stormtroopers abandoned individuality in exchange for their loyalty. They are completely encased in a white armored spacesuit shell, and are armed with blaster pistols or blaster rifles. Their helmets contain comlinks for long-range communications. Officers were denoted with colored shoulder pauldrons. Specific environments called for specially trained and equipped stormtroopers, such as the snowtroopers that besieged the ice world of Hoth and the lightly-armored scout troopers that patrolled the forests of Endor. (Source – www.starwars.com )
Stormtrooper Blaster - Art #2 : Star Wars Canvas Print - From £42.99
View the full Star Wars canvas print collection here :
http://www.id-wall.com/brands/1/0/1/star-wars-episodes-i-ii-iii-iv-v-vi-prints
© 2009 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All rights reserved.
TADO – Edgar’s Meadow : Limited edition canvas prints
Edgar’s Meadow is an exclusive limited edition print available from ID-WALL. The UK-made fine art giclee canvases are available in 8 different sizes and crops, and you can even have Edgar printed up HUGE as a wallpaper!
Edgar & Bubble Smiler - Limited edition print - From £54.99
Mike and Katie are TADO, two very hard working people who do graphic design, illustration, animation, toy design, and a bit of everything in between. They are based in Sheffield, UK, enjoy ice cream and playing with their daft dogs.
Bubble Smiler - TADO - Limited edition print - From £49.99
Their distinctive style is applied across a wide range of mediums, from logos, animation and web design to customized cars, designer toys and home-ware! TADO’s diverse client-base includes MTV International, Daimler Chrysler (Smart Car), Pioneer, World Wildlife Fund, Sony, Honda, Habitat, and British Airways alongside companies such as Flying Cat Toys, Kidrobot, Mathmos, Colette and Playlounge.
Little Shepherd - TADO - Limited edition print - From £49.99
TADO are also well known amongst collectors of designer toys for their work with internationally acclaimed toy company Flying Cat. Their ‘Fortune Pork’ series of mini-plushes was released in 2005 with their ‘Ryoko and The SissyFists’ set of mini figures launched in 2006.
Check out more at : www.tado.co.uk
View all TADO prints here :
http://www.id-wall.com/brands/29/0/1/tado-prints
Apple & Pear - TADO - Limited edition print - From £49.99
Death Star : Last few remaining limited edition canvas prints
Voted the world’s coolest canvas by Loaded Magazine, The Death Star fine art Gilclee canvas print has been a best seller in the ID-WALL.com Star Wars official print collection.
With only a few of remaining limited edition prints available this collectors item will sell out fast. Hand numbered (of 325) and issued with a Certificate of Authenticity, the 700 x 700 mm (27.5 x 27.5 inches) print is priced at £124.99 with free UK shipping.
Death Star : Star Wars Canvas Print - Limited edition : £124.99
The Death Star was the code name of an unspeakably powerful and horrific weapon developed by the Empire. The immense space station carried a weapon capable of destroying entire planets. The Death Star was to be an instrument of terror, meant to cow treasonous worlds with the threat of annihilation. While the massive station is evidence of the evil that was the Galactic Empire, it was also proof of the New Order’s greatest weakness — the belief that technology and terror were superior to the will of oppressed beings fighting for freedom.
The Death Star was a battle station the size of a small moon. It had a formidable array of turbolasers and tractor beam projectors, giving it the firepower of greater than half the Imperial starfleet. Within its cavernous interior were legions of Imperial troops and fightercraft, as well as all manner of detention blocks and interrogation cells. The Death Star was spherical, and dark gray in color. Located on the Death Star’s northern hemisphere was a concave disk housing the station’s main laser weapon. (Source : www.starwars.com )
Dave Prowse - Darth Vader - ID-WALL Star Wars Canvas Prints
As official Lucasfilm licensee since 2005, ID-WALL has continued to develop the unique Star Wars classic saga canvas print collection. Featuring limited and open edition canvas prints, each hand-crafted piece is manufactured to order in UK with painstaking attention to detail and issued with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Dave Prowse (Darth Vader) said: “…the prints themselves look amazing. Star Wars fans and collectors are in for a real treat.”
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