Comments on: fine art prints update

By: Jon Husband

Jon Husband — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 13:04:51 +0000

Why not borrow a leaf,or a page, or a dogbert or something, from Scott Adams ? .. we’re about ready for a new workplace meme .. with Hughtrain characters in the interconnected, interlinked, hughtrain vs. lovemarks, hierarchy vs. linkarchy world o’ work we’re all learning to live and love.
He made millions and millions .. probably still is. Your stuff is just as sarcastically, sardonically and pertinently to the point(s) as Dibert et al was 10 years ago.

By: J.P.

J.P. — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 02:54:08 +0000

Although I really do like your fine art prints idea, howabout something more accessible to the average reader of your page– something they would be willing to buy impulsively because they like your webpage and they are only looking at 20– 30 bucks on the purchase?
I was thinking maybe offering posters (as suggested by above commentator) in the 20–30 dollar range. I realize not as chic or glamorous as fine art print thing, but I can guarantee you I’d buy a poster…fine art print, I’d have to think a lot harder about that.

By: Kathy Sierra

Kathy Sierra — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 02:49:33 +0000

"Yeah, I'm thinking of Hughtrain-inspired work posters." Oh my god -- I would buy those in a heartbeat! The perfect antidote to all those mind-numbingly horrible corporate motivational things about "There's no 'I' in Team". (But there's definitely a "U" in "Suck"). They'd have to sell them here: http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/posters/ do it do it do it PLEASE

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 02:09:23 +0000

Thanks, Nathan. Duly noted and fixed =)

By: Nathan Dornbrook

Nathan Dornbrook — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 01:28:08 +0000

The link to Alan’s site is broken.

By: mamagiggle

mamagiggle — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 00:44:36 +0000

sometime would you post “blobs of Chaos that follow me around” again, I totally dig that one

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 00:08:27 +0000

Yeah, I’m thinking of Hughtrain-inspired work posters. I’m thinking all sorts of things.

By: john t unger

john t unger — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 00:01:56 +0000

I like Alan’s take on it… Actually, after thinking about it a bit I think I would be more inclined to buy fine art prints that were actual business card size than big posters. I don’t feel making the cards bigger really improves them. And art being art, it seems you could charge the same amount for business card size prints as you could for the big ones. Just make it part of the gig.
Printing them at 1:1 scale kind of preserves the intimacy, and god knows, Hugh, you’ve certainly got intimacy down. heh.
Another plus for the 1:1 size is that it makes it easier to find space to hang them…(oh, practicality!) I mean, yeah, it *would* be fun to hang one of the more aggressively hughtrain cards where it dominates dinner conversation or one of the more cruelly truthful NYC cards where it can just plain mock any attempt at pillow talk. But I can also see people buying a collection of their favorites to hang in a nice grid arrangement…
(aside: Do you have any of the relationship cards hanging over your bed? I used to have an antique metal sign from a standard service station that I used for a headboard. It may not have impressed the chicks much, but a buddy of mine wrote a pretty kick ass blues around the idea…)
What I’d *really* like to see is a movement to replace all those insipid workplace posters (you know, kittens in a tree with the slogan “hang in there”) with hugh posters. I can think of a half dozen jobs I might not have quit if it had been your poster instead of the kitten.