Minted Artists in the Press – October 2019

Congratulations to Minted artists who are featured in Real Simple Magazine, Domino, Vogue Online, and HGTV Magazine. Join the fun of spotting Minted artists in the press by uploading PR clips on your social media with the hashtag #mintiespotting.

Real Simple (October 2019) “At Home With Real Simple” featuring “Shes Blooming” by Theresa Bear, “Mousetrap” by Robert Deem, “Cadence” by Melanie Mikecz, “Pebbles” by Kelly Ventura, “Last Tuesday” by Jennifer Daily, “Three Chairs” by Michael Hovitch, “After the Storm” by Sue Prue, and “Le Passage” by Claire Abbiyesuku.

Domino (October 10, 2019) “12 Prints to Collect from Minted’s Class of Emerging Global Artists” featuring “Calm Forest No.18” and “Spring No. 16” by Cait Courneya, “Made in Heaven” and “Pink foliage” by Fernanda Martinez, “Surf’s Up” and “Two Sisters” by Elliot Stokes, “Linked” and “Plainful” by Bethania Lima, “Ocotillo IV” and “Whispered Rain” by Kamala Nahas, and “Experiments with Film 004” and “Experiments with Film 006” by Arash Fattahi Acosta.

HGTV Magazine (November 2019) Cover featuring “Sunshine Dots” by Alexandra Dzh

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Take A Bow Quickfire Holiday Wrapping Paper Challenge: Special Prizes

Announcing the Special Prize winners of our Take a Bow Quickfire Holiday Wrapping Paper Challenge! At Minted we believe that when giving holiday gifts, what’s outside the box matters almost as much as what’s inside. We looked to you, the Minted artist community, to design modern, unique, non-custom wrapping paper designs to make Minted customers’ gifts even more special this holiday season. Congratulations to all of our winners!

Out of the Box Award

For the most design-forward, innovative wrapping paper design that you would only find at Minted.
$500

Party On by Vivian Yiwing

Runners Up: Pink Confetti by Yeye62, Holiday Wave by Baumbirdy and Airstream Holidays by Baumbirdy

Silver Bells Award

We are very excited about sourcing foil-pressed gift wrap for the first time! This award is for the best non-custom gift wrap design featuring a foil element.
$250

Happy Reindeers by Susanne Kasielke

Runners Up: Snowy Night by heathered and Berry Fields by Elena Wilken

Timeless Tradition Award

This award goes to the best gift wrap design that has a classic and traditional holiday feel.
$250

gingham stars by Carolyn Nicks

Runner Up: Watercolor Sprigs by Lehan Veenker

Santa’s Little Helper Award

For the best fun and festive pattern design that appeals to children.
$250

Arctic by Genna Cowsert

Runners Up: Letter to Santa by Peetie Design and Favorite Winter Things by Anastasia Makarova

Classic Christmas Red Award

For the best wrapping paper design featuring a prominently red color palette.
$250

Painted Snow by Cass Loh

Runners Up: Floating Greenery by Jan Shepherd and Minimalist Trees by Mischief Monday

Non-Denominational Award

For the best wrapping paper design that is not specific to a certain holiday and could therefore be used for an array of winter celebrations.
$250

Festive Village by Iveta Angelova

Runners Up: Painterly Plaid by AK Graphics and Luxe Branches by Lucrecia

First-Time Winner Award

For the best design from a designer winning for the first time.
$250

Bottle Brush Forest by Janet Hirata Stall

Critique Award

For providing helpful critique during the challenge.
$150 towards art supplies or art classes

Congratulations, letterfix!

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Birthday and Anniversary Greeting Card Challenges: Special Prizes

Announcing the Special Prize winners of our Just for Her: Birthday and Anniversary Greeting Cards, Cue the Confetti: Children’s Birthday Greeting Cards, and Another Year, Another Adventure: Masculine Birthday and Anniversary Greeting Cards Challenges!

We looked to you, our community of artists, to create fresh, unique designs. We looked for innovative designs that shake up the existing market and that customers truly love. We were thrilled with the results!

Congratulations to all of our winners!

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Global artists unite for annual Camp Minted conference: Day 3 Recap

Photos by Jacob Loafman Photography.

Written by Julie Black

The joy continued through the third and final day of the Camp Minted 2019 conference in Las Vegas. Minted artists spent their mornings in the remaining workshops and sessions, before gathering in groups to discuss important topics in the community and Minted to wrap up an incredible few days. Take a peek into just a few of our favorite moments from the bittersweet finale below.

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GLOBAL ARTISTS UNITE FOR ANNUAL CAMP MINTED CONFERENCE: DAY 2 RECAP

Photos by Jacob Loafman

Written by Kelly Hird

The second day of Camp Minted started bright and early, with a flurry of excitement as artists geared up for a full day of sessions, our keynote speaker, and of course Camp Minted’s annual awards dinner and cocktail party.

Day 2: July 30, 2019

Whitney Ward, Senior Creative Lead at Pinterest, discusses social media strategies with Minted artist Patricia Vargas.

Neeraj Nandkeolyar, Product Manager at Adobe, shares productivity techniques in Illustrator, as well as a sneak peek at some new features being developed to gather artists’ feedback.

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How we surprised the top winner of Minted’s 2019 Holiday Photo Card Challenge

Written by the Minted Team

It was Wednesday, August 28 at 1:15pm when unsuspecting Minted employees and artists joined what they thought was a regular conference call. Fast forward thirteen and a half minutes to Canadian artist Eve Schultz surrounded by a life-size Elf on a Shelf, a giant check for $12,000, and nearly a hundred Minted employees applauding and waving Canadian flags. It wasn’t easy surprising the top prize winner of our 2019 Non-Foil-Pressed Holiday Photo Card Challenge, but we wouldn’t have had it any other way.

Minted team clapping Elf surprises winner

Minted Founder & CEO Mariam Naficy surprises Eve Schultz in front of the Minted team while our community of artists stream and chat in to the live broadcast. The first artist to congratulate Eve via chat? Last year’s winner, Slovenian artist Petra Kern.

Our original plans of surprising Eve at Camp Minted were thwarted when she declined our invitation because of a pre-planned family vacation. We then began plotting to unsuspiciously get Eve out to San Francisco. What was our cover story? We told Eve that we wanted to conduct a series of “in-person media interviews with Minted artists for local press opportunities.” Shortly after she agreed to participate, we cast a fake reporter and video crew, and organized a joint employee and community business meeting on the day of her arrival. Watch the video of Minted Founder & CEO Mariam Naficy surprising Eve in front of the entire Minted office below.

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2019 FOIL-PRESSED HOLIDAY PHOTO CARD CHALLENGE: 1ST PLACE WINNER

Written by Mariam Naficy, Founder & CEO at Minted

I’m thrilled to recognize Sweta Modi of Creo Study as the first-place winner of our 2019 So Very Merry Foil-Pressed Quickfire Photo Card Challenge! This is a major accomplishment as the Challenge was very competitive, with 2,091 submissions and nearly 500,000 votes. Sweta’s winning design, “Gilded Botanics” is minimalist and elegant with delicate, gold foil-pressed botanicals beautifully ornamenting the corners of the photo.

Sweta is from Mumbai, India and worked in the travel industry for 10 years before transitioning to a full-time freelance designer. She joined the Minted community in 2016 and coincidentally, her first Minted submission was to the Foil-Pressed Holiday Photo Card Challenge. Not only is Sweta a talented artist with 174 Minted Challenge wins under her belt, she pays it forward and helps other artists in the community improve their craft. She has given 922 critiques since she joined and was recently nominated by her peers for the 2019 Critique Award. We were thrilled that she travelled all the way from India to join us at Camp Minted! We have seen tremendous growth in her work over the past 3 years and she has even noted that she is “constantly learning and growing with every Challenge” and this is in many ways thanks to artists in the community who offer her “advice and words of encouragement.”

Congratulations, Sweta for winning the $3,000 top-voted prize in this Challenge!

Stay tuned! We’ll continue to announce Minted Holiday 2019 winners in the Minted Community > Winners section of Julep.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Mariam Naficy is the founder and CEO of Minted. She loves creating and managing the Minted brand, ensuring our products are the best in the world, and working with Minted’s talented community of independent artists, who inspire her every day. Mariam founded Minted to create a retailer that could stay fresh forever, using crowdsourcing and analytics to bring the best design to market faster than anyone. She has pioneered consumer Internet models since 1998, when she co-founded the first online cosmetics retailer, Eve.com, which was sold for over $100 million. Mariam sits on the Board of Yelp and Every Mother Counts. She is a Stanford Business School and Williams alumna.

*Please note that we will keep the Challenge page hidden until our final winners’ announcement. At that time, you will be able to see your final score and ranking on the Challenge page.

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2019 FOIL & NON-FOIL HOLIDAY PHOTO CARD CHALLENGES: 2ND PLACE WINNERS

Written by Katherine Philpot

It’s the most wonderful time of the year again! While it still feels like summer here in San Francisco (forecast calls for 75 today), we can almost hear the winter wind start to blow and hear sleigh bells jingle. As we near the end of the 2019 Holiday Photo Card challenges, I want to personally thank all the artists in our community for their beautiful work this year.

Today we announce the well-deserved 2nd place winners of the 2019 So Very Merry Non-Foil-Pressed Holiday Photo Card Challenge and the So Very Merry Quickfire Foil-Pressed Holiday Photo Card Challenge.

Please help me in congratulating Lauren Chism and Kristel Torralba!

2019 So Very Merry Non-Foil-Pressed Holiday Photo Card Challenge

2nd Place Winner

2019 So Very Merry Quickfire Foil-Pressed Holiday Photo Card Challenge

2nd Place Winner

Lauren Chism’s aptly titled card “Jubilantly” features a handsome pairing of elegant script and serif text that evokes the festive and joyful mood of the holiday season.

With its minimal typography and restrained white border, Kristel Torralba’s “Stardust Christmas” embodies modern minimalism, while the glittering stars dancing across the photo imbue the design with playful holiday joy.

Stay tuned! We’ll continue to announce Minted Holiday 2019 winners in the Minted Community > Winners section of Julep.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Katherine Philpot is Minted’s VP and General Manager, Holiday, overseeing the cross-functional effort to bring holiday cheer to all of Minted’s customers every year. She lives in San Francisco and comes from a family that (amazingly!) loves the holidays even more than she does.

*Please note that we will keep the Challenge page hidden until our final winners’ announcement. At that time, you will be able to see your final score and ranking on the Challenge page.

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2019 NON-FOIL & FOIL HOLIDAY PHOTO CARD CHALLENGES: 3RD PLACE WINNERS

Written by Annie Shapiro

With thousands of submissions to this year’s Non-Foil and Foil-Pressed Holiday Photo Card Challenges, it was as difficult as ever to narrow down the designs in our final Holiday Card assortment. We carefully review every single design, and we were so impressed by the quality and ingenuity of submissions this year. As always, the artist community surfaced emerging trends and displayed its continued ability to reinvent holiday card design.

We deeply value each and every submission from Minted’s community of independent artists and are so grateful for the time and creative energy you invest in your work. The depth and breadth of your craft are what infuse life into each and every Minted holiday card. I am thrilled to announce the third-place winners, as determined by voters, of Minted’s 2019 So Very Merry Non-Foil-Pressed and Foil-Pressed Holiday Card Challenges.

2019 So Very Merry Quickfire Foil-Pressed Holiday Photo Card Challenge

3rd Place Winner

2019 So Very Merry Non-Foil-Pressed Holiday Photo Card Challenge

3rd Place Winner

Congratulations, Morgan Ramberg and Oma N. Ramkhelawan!

Morgan’s whimsical winter wonderland illustrated in fresh watercolor feels like a breath of fresh air. “Winter Ice” features familiar winter animals offset against a pink-tinted backdrop, and evokes the spirit of the winter season.

Oma’s “Modern Gilded Joy” blends bold typography with delicate greenery. The cascading letters of “JOY” and elegant botanical photo frame come together for an elegant, modern design.

Stay tuned! We’ll continue to announce Minted Holiday 2019 winners in the Minted Community > Winners section of Julep.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Annie Shapiro is Minted’s Holiday Merchant and this is her third go-around at launching Minted’s Holiday Card collection.

*Please note that we will keep the Challenge page hidden until our final winners’ announcement. At that time, you will be able to see your final score and ranking on the Challenge page.

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All the Feels: Sympathy & Get Well and Let the Good Times Roll: Everyday Milestones Greeting Card Challenges: Special Prizes

Announcing the Special Prize winners of our All the Feels: Sympathy & Get Well and Let the Good Times Roll: Everyday Milestones Greeting Card Challenges!

We looked to you, our talented artist community, to continue to push the boundaries in these categories and design cards with a wide range of sentiments, from sincere and heartfelt to honest and imperfect.

Congratulations to all of our winners!

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