A lot of our focus in recent weeks has been on the processes and the benefits of using the Creative Services Exchange™ from a brand perspective. I don’t want to repeat them in detail here, but just in case you’ve been in the parallel universe where the only way to get creative work done is by [...]

The term Crowdsourcing was coined in 2006 by Jeff Howe. But it’s roots go way back. Its early beginnings are collectives. Particularly the artist collective which was a way for a bunch of folk to get together and succeed better as a group than as individuals. Hey, it worked for the impressionists.

The concept of ‘agency’ or the role of ‘agent’ has not changed much in 100 years. Particularly when it comes to the creative agency. But there’s something a brewing in agency land.

b-uncut is fast emerging as the worlds leading artist Crowdsourcing platform. The beginning of Art Market 2.0. Here are some examples. Find more photos like this on b-uncut.net

People have been commissioning artists for a thousand years. It is one of the earliest forms of trade. Kings, Queens, Lords then industrialists, pioneers, even pirates took artists in and fed, housed and paid them to make great art. The artist commission is as old as time.

A quiet revolution is under way in the art world. One that few expected and most missed. Because it’s on the Web; called b-uncut. It was started in 2007 by a group of contemporary artists, led by Philip Letts, as a new kind of collective. One without borders. One bound by the Web. They’re vision [...]

The b-uncut Store is doing for the art world what Loudclothing.com does for the music industry (which is why EMI bought them yesterday!). And art lovers are buying in, snapping up the latest contemporary art accessories – t-shirts, posters, coasters, mousepads and more. Here’s a few we like. Go to the b-uncut Store today and [...]

Museum shops at Moma and the Tate do a roaring trade – even in the current climate. People just love having a nifty product with cool art on it. After all who can afford that original Van Gogh these days. The problem is that Museums are hard to get to and only promote dead or [...]

In 2007 a handful of pioneering artists had an idea. They thought that if they could use the Internet to unite and organize artists from around the world then together they could redefine the concept of art market. You see, they understood that world artists had had enough. Enough of making no money. Enough of [...]

P Diddy speaks out about artists need to develop and control their personal brands on and offline – inc social media. “Before, it was just at live shows, now you have to be able to do a great live show, you have to be able to do a great online interview, you need to have [...]

blur Group’s crowd of artists at b-uncut keeps breaking new ground. Today it surpassed 10,000 artworks loaded. b-uncut.net, where the artists hang, attracts over 5,500 unique visitors per month and over 40,000 page views making it by far the most ‘active’ artist site on the Web. In the mean time b-uncut.com, aimed at art buyers [...]

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 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 [...]

[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.