Product Description

Includes nearly 2,000 markets that exhibit and/or buy artwork; each listing includes detailed contact information as well as specific guidelines for submission.

Articles and interviews offer valuable business tips and describe the best practices for submitting artwork as a professional.

Provides an abundance of resources for aspiring artists--professional organizations, grant programs, helpful Web sites, publications of interest, trade magazines, conferences and more.

The 2008 Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market is the best reference guide for emerging artists who want to establish a successful career in fine art, illustration, cartooning or graphic design. Readers will find complete, up-to-date contact and submission information for more than 1,900 art markets such as greeting card companies, magazine and book publishers, galleries, art fairs, ad agencies and more. Informative interviews with successful artists and art buyers offer advice on how to make contacts and succeed in the competitive art industry. Readers will also discover valuable resources for obtaining grants, marketing and promoting their work, and networking with fellow artists.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1756041 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-03
• Format: Bargain Price
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 608 pages

About the Author
Erika O'Connell is former assistant editor of Photographer’s Market and Poet’s Market, as well as an aspiring writer and artist.

Customer Reviews

DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK IF YOU HAVE ONE FROM PREVIOUS FOUR YEARS
Every year these rip-off artists (i.e., people who specialize in the business of ripping off other people), publish an "updated" book. The updated books supposedly have been "completely revised" and feature new entries. I am here to tell you that not only are there very few new entries, but many are out of date, no longer pertinent and/or simply give inaccurate information. What is most frustrating is the author's insistence on marking several entries as "new" that have appeared in many previous editions. Perhaps they think if an entry has not appeared since 2002 they can throw it in the 2008 edition and call it new. Some of these places aren't even doing business anymore. Bottom line: I am extremely disappointed with this edition. I also must report that I have found no leads from these books, yet I have been successful finding leads on the Internet and through other forms of research. If you feel you need this book, go to a bookstore and take a pen and notebook with you. Just don't waste your money on buying it!

is what it is
well, you get what you pay for. It's a good resource for someone starting out who isn't ready to dish out hundreds of dollars for a mailing list. But half the listings are obsolete, or old adresses, old art directors.

Also it hasn't really kept up with the times... most illustrators these days aren't looking to design flower patterns for dixie cups. 3/4 of that book is irrelevant to me. Of course it's probably targeted at part time crafters, flower pattern designers, and the mid life crisis "Im going to write and illustrate a children's book" rather than professional illustrators.

If somebody published a seriously updated & comprehensive illustrator's market book I would pay a lot more than $20 for it though.

2008 Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market
This book is a MUST read for anyone looking to earn money from their art. The information provided is invaluable and they answered questions I did not even know to ask! Will DEFINATELY purchase every year.