You can order print on demand* directly
- in Seattle at Imagekind.com
- in Palo Alto at Zazzle.com (including T-shirts, ties, mugs, caps etc.)
- in Salt Lake City at ArtWanted.com
- in San Francisco at ArtistRising.com
- in New York City at FineArtAmerica.com (Asbjorn Lonvig)
- in New York City at FineArtAmerica.com (Lille Fejringhus Gallery)
- in Paris, France at Poosteers.com

*) Print on demand means:
You find the motif you want to buy on the internet,
you order it and you pay it with your creditcard,
the print in printed for you,
the print is sent to your address directly.

Why User Portals?
The short and simple answer is to serve my customers better and to seve customers that are not familiar with computers, with internet etc.

I’ll show you a User Portal.
I am building the Aarhus City Portal right now.
Aarhus City is the second largest city in Denmark.
Aarhus City has 225.000 inhabitants.
So, this user portal intends to serve 225.000 users.

The first thing to do is to create motifs that describe Aarhus City.
I went to Aarhus and found buildings and landmarks of Aarhus, that I could use.
The new museum, the city hall tower, the queen’s summer residence, the Theater, a house in the Old Town, the cathedral and finally the old cathedral office in St. Clemen’s Courtyard.

Today I finished these motifs:

I load large files of all the images to print on demand contracting parties in Salt Lake City, Seattle, and San Francisco Bay Area. The images are approved at once in Salt Lake City and Seattle. In San Francisco the images might wait for approval.

First of all I use a User Portal logo.

The logo is of course a portal. In a matter of fact it is a very specific portal. It is the Arch of Septimus Severus, which was erected in the Roman Forum in A.D. 203 by the Roman Emperor Septimus Severus.
You can’t study Roman history without visiting the Roman Forum once.
You can’t visit the Roman Forum without passing through the Arch of Septimus Severus.
In this logo a BETA will shown in the big arch. That is because the 40 different User Portals, that have been launched so far are being tested.
The Aarhus City Portal is marked with a BETA, too.


See the Aarhus City Portal.
The motifs are presented. Here 7 motifs. You might see an enlargement by clicking on an image.
Then there are 3 sections. 1, 2 and 3.

1. The user must have some free titbit. So I give him the possibility to download three Word documents of each motif. Word documents that can be printed on the user’s own printer.
I have to be aware of different formats in European and American standards. The European standard is A format and the American standard it is Letter format. The Aarhus City Portal probably will only be used by Europeans - therefore the A format is offered.

2. Here I guide the user to order print at print on demand contracting parties. One in Salt Lake City, one in Seattle and one in San Francisco Bay area.
By guiding to 3 print on demand contracting parties the users are offered a variety of sizes, prices, qualities and surfaces.
At the same time I keep track of what happens in this market.

The prices are kept low - the user only pays the base print price and internet costs. The user can order prints in sizes from 3.5 x 5” to 40 x 60” on paper and canvas – and some other funny surfaces like T-shirts, mugs, tote bags etc. etc. The print contracting party handles ordering and payment. The printing of course and the prints are sent directly to the user.

If the user wants to see some of the my other 750 images for print there is a link to the main pages in Salt Lake City, Seattle, and San Francisco Bay Area.

3. If the user wants something special. A painting. Limited edition prints. Signed prints. A huge print on canvas larger than 40 x 60″ - no problem, he just has to contact me.

A brochure is available to each User Portal.
The brochure is of course used for initial presentation of the portal.
You can download the brochure Aarhus City Portal from the portal.

Thoughts.
Now what is the most important to succeed with these User Portals.
Is it to do excellent motifs? No!
Is it to simplify the User Portal? No!
Is it to make an extremely eye catching brochure? No!

It is to communicate the User Portal Concept to people that are not familiar with computers, with internet etc.
I can not do it myself.
I know too much.
Or!!!!
You might as well say I know much too little.

But.
Journalists know how to present this kind of stuff to their readers.
This week Ny Hedensted Portal and Ny Vejle Portal will have press coverage.
Tomorrow I’ll translate the Aarhus City Portal into Danish and find a jounalist at the Aarhus newspaper Aarhus Stiftstidende.

You can click on a picture to enlage.

Dan Tanenbaum, President - Portfolios.com, Toronto, Canada has announced:

Based on the evaluation of our judges, you are a winner in the International Portfolios.com Award Show!

The Portfolios.com Award Show is an international awards competition that recognizes outstanding work in the communications field. Entries are judged by industry professionals who look for companies and individuals whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry. 
The Portfolios.com’s prestigious Award Winners will be posted on our website (www.portfolios.com) in the first week of July. 

Category: Graphic Design.
Award winning motif: Tall Charlie.
Artist/designer: Asbjorn Lonvig.

The jury:

Ron Kellum, Canada, graduated with a BFA from Louisiana State University and the School of Visual Arts in New York City
Carol King, United States, a New York City based graphic designer
Giorgio Davanzo, United States, graduated from the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, Italy
Terri Stone, United States, Editor in Chief of creativepro.com

Tall Charlie is available as: Painting, acrylic on canvas - Paper-cut collage - Serigraph - Poster and Fine Art Print - Huge Fine Art Print - Graphic Design - Print on your computer etc.

As poster he is available as Text Poster and several Fairy Tale Posters - all of them made ready for online ordering and print on demand.

Sincerely,
Asbjorn Lonvig artist, designer etc.
Lille Fejringhus Gallery
Hedensted
Denmark

http://www.lonvig.biz/

Available as acrylic on canvas - serigraph on canvas edition 100 - poster.
Colorful Simplicity motifs, colorful simplicity text and fairy tale posters:

Exhibition of 79 Asbjorn Lonvig art works at the online gallery TheFineArtOriginal.com in the Niagara Area, New York, United States. To be precise it is in Tonawanda. 1 Raintree Island, Tonawanda, NY 14150. Posters are ordered at ArtWanted.com.

See the Exhibition.

The Fairy Tale Poster lives side by side with the internet version
of the written fairy tale, which can be downloaded in a Word document and
form a tiny children’s book.

Tall Charlie is the name in English of the yellow giraffe.
Céline Maeder, Paris has done the translation into French.
Céline Maeder has made new French names to all my fairy tale characters.
Tall Charlie is called Sophie Moyenne.
Sophie Moyenne is a fairy tale character in “Au zoo avec Sam et Lucca”,
“In the Zoo with Sam and Lucca”.
See it ready to print on demand at ArtWanted.com.
See this Fairy Tale Poster enlarged.
See the written fairy tale on the internet.

The fairy tale “Happy Traffic” is about children’s safety in traffic.
This Fairy Tale Poster is in English.
A baby is the main character.
He is on 12 traffic signs in 12 different languages.
The traffic signs have the text “HI - Drive Carefully”.
The traffic sign in Danish “Hej - Kør Forsigtigt” has been tested
in 3 cities on more than 20 streets.
People have told me that they work according to the intention.
I write the fairy tales in English. My English is checked by Ann Watson, Florida and others.
See it ready to print on demand at ArtWanted.com.
See this Fairy Tale Poster enlarged.
See the written fairy tale on the internet.

This is the Hebrew translation of “Octo-Pus the Cuttlefish and
Crab-Mac-Claw the Crab”.
The Hebrew translation is done by Yochanan Dvir, who lives in the kibitz Lehavot Habashan in Northern Israel near the Lebanese border.
Yochanan Dvir translates the fairy tales and put them on his own site in Hebrew http://www.sefer-li.net/.
See it ready to print on demand at ArtWanted.com.
See this Fairy Tale Poster enlarged.
See the written fairy tale on the internet.

Francesca Fancini from Milan, Italy has translated
“Octo-Pus the Cuttlefish and Crab-Mac-Claw the Crab” into Italian.
The story is called “La Seppia e il Granchio” in Italian.
Green, white and red are the Italian colors.
See it ready to print on demand at ArtWanted.com.
See this Fairy Tale Poster enlarged.
See the written fairy tale on the internet.

The fairy tales are translated into Chinese by Ni Duan, Hangzhou, China.
Hangzhou is the capital of China’s Zhejiang Province 120 miles south west of Shanghai.
A small Chinese city of 7 million people!!!
Ni Duan and Jan Engberg, Shanghai are helping me to find a Chinese publisher.
See it ready to print on demand at ArtWanted.com.
See this Fairy Tale Poster enlarged.
See the written fairy tale on the internet.

I would like to ask your opinion.
Once an art work has been digitized you can print it.
Usually you print on paper.
Or cloth.
Or plastic.
Or….

This tiny close up photo of the print on canvas tells the whole story.
The close up is of a basement window.
And as you can see the texture of the canvas sure is there.

The visual differences between a painting and the print on canvas are:
In the painting you can see the brushstrokes.
You can see the painter’s shaking hand.
From a technical point of view you might prefer the print?
From an artistic point of view you might prefer the painting?
Of course there is a difference in price.
A unique painting is more expensive than a print.

See my efforts.
And - if you like - you might visit my new web site lonvig.biz with vision and prices.

And
I can’t resist this opportunity to show you my work from last week - text posters: