During 2011 blog page views across blur Group’s network more than doubled. We know that they’re a sought-out information source for those working in the creative industries, those using them and people looking for that different perspective on new startups, the latest art, marketing must-haves, design desires and a view on the latest trends. At the [...]

It’s no secret that social media is an effective marketing strategy for businesses to build brand awareness.  You set up a Twitter account, send out some messages and that should be enough, right? Unfortunately, no.  Successfully leveraging social media is a challenge, but if done right, it can be the linchpin for any business. Tom [...]

The b-uncut store is open for business. Buy art t-shirts, shirts, gadgets, cards, posters and more. This is a critical milestone for b-uncut – the worlds leading artists network. Because money made from selling b-uncut Store products goes direct to the artists and b-uncut’s emerging art programs including grants, shows and sponsorships. b-uncut is redefining [...]

The Portobello film festival kicks off tonight at our Westbourne Studios! Big piece on Street art, got talking to sickboy a leading street artist from Bristol. Turns out he was one of the first street artists to use a logo instead of a tag, known as the ‘Temple’ which can be seen on walls and [...]

Ricardo Cinalli, arguably the worlds greatest living painter has joined b-uncut. Leading art critics, including Brian Sewell, have called him the 21st Century Matisse. He’s a little shy – so we just recognize him as another cool artist that has joined the b-uncut movement. One of the reasons Ricardo joined b-uncut is to support the [...]

Your art, our store – a preview. The b-uncut Store opens its doors next week. Shhhh…

b-uncut, the leading crowdsourcing platform for artists, today launched a revolutionary artists’ store. It takes the already popular concept of a museum shop to a whole new dimension by offering hundreds of popular consumer goods products such as clothing, housewares, gadgets, cards, posters and more each designed with original art from b-uncut’s crowd of emerging, [...]

blur Designs has started work on b-uncut’s Merchandise store. Wearable, drinkable, usable art!

blur Group’s crowdsourcing platform for the art world has just launched a programme of art tours. Initially to Italy, these tours are for artists and art lovers and set in Rome, Florence and Le Marche. blur Group has spent the last 2 years building a sizable crowd of quality, emerging artists from around the world [...]

The definition of Fairtrade is clear: “Fairtrade is a strategy for poverty alleviation and sustainable development. Its purpose is to create opportunities for producers and workers who have been economically disadvantaged or marginalized by the conventional trading system. If fair access to markets under better trade conditions would help them to overcome barriers to development, [...]

Crowdsourcing has become an increasingly accepted term with examples bandied about such as Google using the analysis of Web links to crowdsource their search engine, Wikipedia crowdsourcing the planet to build the largest encyclopedia and Threadless crowdsourcing approaching a million people to design t-shirts. But what is the future of crowdsourcing? Well, we think it’s [...]

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/O1x5ujsIHEw" width="440" height="270" allowfullscreen="true" fvars="fs=1" /] The worlds leading artist community has just become the Webs hottest art market. Join us if you dare – www.b-uncut.com. FAIRTRADE for Artists.

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/jzLR4ibG4ug" width="440" height="270" allowfullscreen="true" fvars="fs=1" /] b-uncut – where the worlds living artists hang online. Join us if you dare. www.b-uncut.net.

As blur Group gets more of a following we increasingly get asked why what we are doing is important. It is both a fundamental and complex question to answer. I have spent the last ten years building large communities and marketplaces on the Web – consumer facing, business facing and some that mash both up. [...]

The new b-uncut.com is live. As one of the world’s most vibrant and energetic communities of contemporary artists it has today shifted to online art community AND art marketplace. How fitting that this happened right as b-uncut recruited its 500th artist. b-uncut is now attracting 2 new artists a day from all corners of the [...]