For the past 2-3 years most print on demand companies have been tightening the belt, giving the axe to many products in their catalogue only keeping their sure fire best sellers in their catalogue, to the point that NONE seems to have any unique selling points items like they once did in the past. So imagine my surprise the other day when I realised Threadless launched new products, and not just one or two, but a WHOLE range of them! I spent all of yesterday enabling my art on their brand new...

We all remember Society6 introducing paid subscription tiers only to cancel them after a year to move to a fully curated platform where they veto every designs. We also remember Redbubble adding fees on certain account tiers. The wind of change on PoD (Print on Demand) platforms has been blowing steady since 2023 and I did say it back then : AI is going to force some unpleasant changes for artists in that industry, and I don't think it's ever going to stop. Spoonflower seemed to have gone...

We are in the last stretch of a long grueling, unbearably hot summer over here. The monsoon is late, the threat of a super El Niño is becoming more real and daunting with each days passing and Mumbai has about 40 days left of water supply. Throw in a never ending series of heatwaves mixed with perimenopause and it makes for a very exhausted Cyn with almost no creative juice left. The problem is that when you are a commercial artist and sell on print-on-demand platform, you've got to keep...