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Veaux – Bridging the Gap Between Creatives and Buyers

Posted on | April 14, 2009 | No Comments

veaux_adc3Let’s say you’re an artist. How do you get your work into the hands of the people who need and appreciate it? You are talented, commited and…unknown.

Now let’s say you’re a creative director or buyer. How do you find the art that you’re looking for? With a vision and a deadline, you need to find the perfect thing to bring your project together.

In a sea of creative noise, how do these people connect?

Enter Veaux. As a creative market, Veaux has realized the common ground where the mutually dependent artist and buyer can meet. Created as an online portfolio site, Veaux connects buyers with creatives in a practical fashion by having artists tag or categorize their work, allowing buyers to browse and bookmark within styles rather than by artist with the insight that “creative buyers are looking for style and a specific visual direction, but not specific artists.”

CEO and Creative Director Savannah Spirit’s motivation for starting Veaux was “to create a space for emerging artists to co-mingle, collaborate and meet each other, but specifically to work and sell themselves. I see emerging artists struggle all the time. I saw it in friends who are extremely talented but just didn’t know how to market themselves. Being an artist (photographer) myself I understood the frustration.”

Spirit continued “The emerging artists and designers who are truly passionate will take Veaux seriously and run with it, meaning they constantly post new work, keep posting blogs on their profile and reach out to other artists on the site.”

Creatives of all types (fine artists, illustrators, web and graphic designers, fashion and hair stylists, product designers, photographers etc.) can create and maintain an online portfolio by uploading and tagging images. Veaux offers three packages to choose from based on the amount of storage space and tags per image that you desire.

Taste Package: Free, 3 tags per image and 1MB of space (~10 images)

Choice Package: $5 per month, 5 tags per image and 10MB of space (~100 images)

Deluxe Package: $12 per month, 9 tags per image and 100MB of space (~1000 images)

Setting up a Buyer Account is always free, and gives you the capability to search and bookmark favorites.

veauxgallery_logoThe Veaux team recently opened Veaux Gallery in Chelsea, NYC as a showcase for emerging artists from the Veaux website, upping their visibility, credibility and cool factor big time.

Savannah Spirit expands on the gallery’s role in bringing together creatives and buyers saying “In the long run I see Veaux becoming a sort of artist collective. That is why the gallery is now relevant. It’s the very first step to the the bigger goal. I’d love to open a huge space somewhere in the city or Brooklyn where our members can come and work, hang out, drink coffee, meet and get charged up about their projects all the while art buyers, reps and collectors come and meet them, see their work and hopefully hire or discover them.”

veux2“Eventually I would love for Veaux studios to pop up in every major city across the globe over the next 10 years. That would be really amazing! A leisure world for artists everywhere.”

Check out www.veaux.org, get in touch with them and make something happen.

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