INSPIRED Art Book by ArtOrder

Jon Schindehette from The ArtOrder has just announced their first artbook called INSPIRED

It's a juried artbook that features artworks from various artist.

Unlike other juried artbooks where artists have to trade their art for exposure or a chance to win some prizes, INSPIRED actually pays the featured artists if the book sells well. I think that's a great business model because in addition to the exposure you'll get, you're actually getting paid for your hard work.

The jury are

• Irene Gallo - Associate Publisher, Tor.Com
• Julie Bell - Illustrator
• Lauren Panepinto - Creative Director, Orbit Books
• Rebecca Guay - Illustrator, founder of Illustration Master Class & smArt School
• Terese Nielsen - Illustrator
• Terryl Whitlatch - Illustrator and Creature Designer

And the artists included are

1. Alice Cao
2. Anthony Schmidt
3. Ashley Stewart
4. Bram “Boco” Sels
5. Brenda Lyons
6. Cole Marchetti
7. Cristina Bencina
8. Dave Lebow
9. David Brasgalla
10. Elizabeth Leggett
11. Filippo "onez" Vanzo
12. Gabriella Liv Eriksson
13. Herman Lau
14. Inaya Hodeib
15. Jason Cheeseman-Meyer
16. Jim Zaccaria
17. John Picacio
18. Julia Metzger
19. Julian Hayduk
20. Kelley McMorris
21. Kip Ayers
22. Kiri Østergaard Leonard
23. Kristina Carroll
24. Marc Scheff
25. Paul Pederson
26. Rebecca Yanovskaya
27. Rich Klink
28. Sam Guay
29. Sybiline
30. Tara Larsen Chang
31. Tav Kong
32. Terese Nielsen
33. Terryl Whitlatch
34. Wylie Beckert

The book's still in the printing process but will be in March 2015.

It will to be a 8x8 inch paperback with 132 pages, limited at 1000 copies only, priced at USD $24.95 each.

Also available for sale is a high resolution PDF ebook at USD $5.95. Those who pre-order the artbook will get the PDF free.

Check out more details of the book at https://the-artorder-store.myshopify.com/collections/publications/produ…

I've already seen the book in its entirety and the artworks are great. The only downside is the artworks are presented only on one side of the spread, and the other page is either the artist profile and interview with quite a bit of unused white space.

The page previews below are cropped versions of the spreads so as to make the pictures larger for you to see. The last two pictures shows you the actual format you can expect. It's a square format book and the artworks do not cross the page gutter.

You can get the book at https://the-artorder-store.myshopify.com/collections/publications/produ…