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We're excited to announce that we have just launched a new help center designed to help you help yourself! Now it's faster than ever to resolve issues, track or cancel orders from any device (it's mobile-friendly!) on your own without having to email customer service. As long as you have an account, you can use our self help features. As always, our customer service team is here to help you with whatever you need but now we've made it easier to access these features on your own. So, what are those things?

Australia Painted Map Exciting news for our Australian and New Zealand friends: we now have an Australian manufacturing partner to make shopping on Society6 easier than ever. Our Australian partner currently prints: art prints, canvas…

We're super excited to announce our redesigned Collections! This is particularly awesome for artists, curators and members. Your Collections now appear on your Profile homepage with added features, cleaner feel and smoother functionality. Here's how it'll help ya... Artists : Categorize your work with greater ease. Provide context for collections or a series of work with a short…

As a community of artists, our team shares in the profound sadness left in the wake of events unfolding in Paris. We send every ounce of love to the friends and families of those fallen and affected by the Charlie Hebdo attacks. We recognize art as a powerful agent for change. Particularly satire. Unfortunately, this became a very sobering truth on Wednesday.

Today, we are excited to announce that we have joined Demand Media www.demandmedia.com to take Society6 to the next level.

On March 23, 2009 at 9:06pm Justin, Lucas and myself set our intent to create opportunity for the world’s artists by launching Society6. By October 15, 2009 at 12:32pm we officially published our mission: Empower the World's Artists to profit from the sale of their artwork, without giving up control of their rights!

With the news of this acquisition we commit to you the following:

- The sanctity and spirit of the Society6 community will be fully preserved.

- All work posted on Society6 will continue to belong to the individual artist who posted it.

- The entire Society6 team will remain intact and will continue to run the show here in Los Angeles, including all 3 co-founders, only we will have many more creative and brilliant people with incredible resources helping us advance our mission.

- The quality of our products will not be compromised.

- We will continue our relentless focus to improve and refine the Society6 experience.

- We will continue to expand the range of products that we offer, and the features and resources that we provide to help you be more successful.

- Demand Media’s massive reach will mean more people buying your products.


Not only does Demand share our core values, but they respect and understand the importance of creative people. In just a few years, both through their own fully integrated creative studio and in collaboration with other Demand Media companies like IndieClick and Creativebug they have grown to the #14 largest web property with more than 100 Million people visiting their sites every month.

Over the last four years we’ve been inspired by the countless Society6 artists that we have met, and those that will always be remembered and celebrated as part of the Society6 family.

We are incredibly humbled by this journey and grateful to everyone that has entrusted us with their work. This is one of many big moments for Society6, so from the bottom of our hearts thank you all very much for taking part and look forward to your continued participation.

Congrats to Karien Deroo for her recent feature on BlackBook http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/m...eroo/24293

Very well deserved coming out of our recent collaboration with BlackBook http://www.society6.com/collab/BlackB...New_Regime

View more of Karien's work here:
http://www.society6.com/studio/karienderoo

As part of our recent collaboration with Vans and Color magazine http://www.society6.com/collab/Vans_a...ne_Customs a big thank you to Sandro, Linda and the Color magazine crew for the 2-page feature spread in the Fall 2010 issue.

Featuring all six contributors to the Vans Artist shoe project:

Trevor Nicholls
http://www.society6.com/trevornicholls

Matthew Billington
http://www.society6.com/studio/matthewb

Joe Castro
http://www.society6.com/studio/joecastro

Roger Allen aka "Crooked Walker"
http://www.society6.com/studio/crookedwalker

Sarah Ramirez
http://www.society6.com/studio/sarahramirez

Lidia Garcia de Lamo
http://www.society6.com/studio/lidiag

Online feature from Color mag
http://www.colormagazine.ca/features/...oe-project

Thanks to all of the 363 Society6 members who applied for this collaboration. Please join our friends at BlackBook magazine (a special thanks to Chris Mohney) in congratulating Ruben Ireland for being selected for the feature spot in their fourth annual New Regime Portfolio issue http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/t...gime/23789, on shelves now.

View more work from Ruben Ireland:
http://www.society6.com/studio/ruben_...lustration

We couldn't be more excited to announce that Blik http://www.whatisblik.com has joined the Society6 Retail Partner network!

This means that every time you Post your artwork for sale as a Society6 product, it is automatically eligible to also be sold through the "Blik Shop x Society6" http://society6.whatisblik.com/ where you'll find a Blik-curated selection of iPhone, iPod, iPad and laptop skins as well as art prints and stretched canvases from your favorite Society6 artists.

Look for Blik artist collaborations coming in the New Year!

As you may have noticed we've been busy over here making some tweaks and adjustments to key areas of Society6.

The Homepage has been redesigned to showcase more posts. We combined this with the Discover page format and moved that feature into the homepage so you can now check out random cool stuff without leaving the homepage, just hit Discover nestled in between Popular and New.

When our next Collab goes live you will see this in the top right corner of the Homepage. You can still check up on closed collabs by accessing it via the footer.

Studios got tidied up a bit and by getting rid of the Endorsements altogether. We removed it because it was redundant since you can follow people and Following does the same + more. In the next few days we will be moving all your Endorsement into your list of Following so it is all combined into one simple list.

My Society got some touch ups too. We increased the thumbnail sizes on the right and left columns so you can more easily see the cool content coming from people in your Society. Let us know what you think, as always we will keep tightening up the experience to showcase your artwork and make it easier for you to get inspired by the work of others.