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Binned Art — Collect works by young & early career artists.
Binned Art is a curated art platform that makes art buying more affordable and less elitist. Today, great art is plentiful, yet most of us end up with the same pathetic IKEA prints on our walls. This is an attempt to bring real art back into people’s homes.
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@calum thank you, appreciate it!
We ship worldwide and, in fact, most of the paintings sold to date were shipped to UK customers 🙂As soon as you make a purchase, we inform the artist and then he/she prepares the artwork for shipping. You should receive the painting within a week, together with a Certificate of Authenticity, signed by the painter.
@calum @ad31mar I really like the idea for this, good luck with the project.
I do have a query though - if the paintings are being sold anonymously or under a pseudonym then what value is the certificate of authenticity signed by the painter?
Presumbably for this to have any value it would need to be in their real name and not a made up one?
@calum @alan_smith4 IMHO, the certificate should work fine for pseudonymous artists (think of Banksy - personally, I would not turn back a certificate from him 😆). But for anonymous artists, I'll have to agree with you...
Hello Product Hunters! 👋
As a fellow painter, I kept on cluttering my studio with unsold works. While I worked on refining my style and finding my artistic voice, I wished I could sell some paintings under a pseudonym to make room for more (and restock on supplies - they are pricy). This is when the idea of Binned Art was born.
Binned Art is a curated art platform that aims to make great art affordable to all. It’s a win-win opportunity: artists are free to sell their works anonymously to recoup the cost of art supplies, while letting you purchase their works at a bargain price.
Here’s a highlight of what makes Binned Art different:
- Anybody can submit artworks on the website by filling in brief form. No more sending out CVs to galleries and chasing them endlessly.
- The prices are based exclusively on the size of the painting. Artists can calculate the price using the inbuilt calculator, saving them days of understanding how to fairly price their work.
- Artists can submit their art under a pseudonym. This way they can experiment more, whilst keeping their public pricing unhurt.
I really hope Binned Art helps artists grow their careers and makes original paintings affordable to more art lovers.
Dying to hear your feedback! 🙏
~ Dani
@owenfar1 Thank you Owen! I'll work to make the 3D view more user friendly. As for the newsletter button, it's "Subscribe" placed in the bottom left corner. Would you recommend renaming it to "Newsletter" instead?
@ad31mar This is SO dope! My fiance and I just moved into a new place and we were literally talking about how we wanted to start collecting art but don't know where to start (and also have limited budget). Seeing this pop up on ProductHunt was truly one of those wonderful, existential moments. We've already discovered quite a few pieces that we want to buy, and for pieces we wanted that were sold it led to us discovering those artists on their primary mediums!
I also love love love the way you made browsing into an experience. We mirrored this onto our TV and browsed all the pieces together. Magical!
1 - Filters. I don't want to browse paintings that are sold or not the right size.
2 - CTA for newsletter. I'm not going to remember your URL, and now I have closed your page. The LFV went from something to zero right there.
3 - Add more information on the paintings and/or artists. I understand the concept won't nessecarily allow for the same amount of info as a standard gallery, but a short blurb would add value to the painting.
@casinobonustip thank you for the tips!
1. Absolutely agree, working on filters as we speak.
2. The newsletter is set up to pop up after 15 sec spent on the site, I thought that's the most direct CTA there is :)
3. Artists have the option to set an additional description for their artworks, and some of them do. E.g. https://binnedart.com/art/collag...
@casinobonustip @ad31mar Also, something's up with the way the artwork loads. I have to scroll, then wait for the images to load, then scroll and wait for the images to load.
@rossdcurrie @ad31mar when I click on a piece of art I'd love for it to open in a new tab or when I click back it would be great if I wasn't put back at the top of the page it's a little prohibitive but completely worth the trouble as far as I can see. This is very impressive.
@rossdcurrie @jessicagottlieb Thanks so much for your kind words, Jessica! 🤲 Valid point, I will try to fix it!
As someone who wants to get into buying some art this is a really appealing concept. My only issue is being in the UK and everything seeming to be in US prices the delivery/import costs aren't very clear. I understand it's a pain but would be good to have a clear system of signing up and providing your region to maybe find work local to you or a system outlining what costs will be involved etc.
@slyfirefox Thank you for the feedback, Peter. I'm now working on building localized currency and measurements that will update based on viewers' location. Hopefully it will help clear the confusion.
Really great idea and I think the pieces are top notch. That said a few things could be improved.
- Filters by size and sold/not sold. It was incredibly frustrating to find a piece I like only to find out it's already been sold.
- The ability to search by styles, colors, etc. would be very useful when it comes to finding particular pieces.
@kylegalbraith Thanks for the improvement suggestions, Kyle. All valid, working on it 💪
Love the concept. A few comments:
-I know this is just the beginning and you intend to build out your collection, but something about it being focused and not overwhelming with options is a plus. Don't want another society6 where you browse for hours and end up overwhelmed and leaving.
-The pop up did not pop up for me after 15 seconds (pop ups are allowed on my browser)
-Load time was a little slow. Also I would enjoy scrolling down a little "less" to see the next option.
Congrats!!!
@rania_el_ghezzaoui Thank you! Having used society6 and Saatchi Art, I know very well what you're talking about, hence I'm trying to keep it as clean as possible 😊Will work on the load times 🙌
@anavilar Really happy you liked it and hope you'll soon find a piece you'll love 🙏
Great idea! It just needs category search. Landscape, abstract, impressionism, etc
@wolfywolf thanks for the feedback Jack! Just finished "hide sold" and pushing the "size" filter (which also happens to be my price filter thanks to the pricing policy tomorrow! 🙂
I'd like to be able to click on an artist's name so that I could see other works from that artist.
@christopher_rhodes thanks for the suggestion, will go through my 🍝 spaghetti code asap 😊
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