Spotlight On Brightcube - Brief Article

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--According to Al Marco, ceo of Brightcube, the time to come couldn't be any brighter for his newly formed company.

Brightcube was formed from one side a recent merger of FrameYourArt.com and the other properties that make up the utmost Velocity Group and Photoloft, a developer and provider of digital-imaging Internet infrastructure technology.

on the contrary the formation of Brightcube is just the latest in a string of accomplishments that have l Marco to be individual of the top dogs in the relatively fresh and constantly evolving Internet art market.

Marco is a 17-year veteran of the publishing industry and is the establisher of Marco Fine Art, a company which shows artists like John Asaro, stay Buffet and John Nieto. For Marco, this digital revolution all began just sum of two units years ago, in the summer of 1999 with a Web site called FrameYourArt.com. It was created to be a top e-commerce art site, linking consumer shopping for art and custom framing online with retail framing galleries.

"I started the company because I was relate toed about my dealers and I wanted them to do well" he explained. "And Art.com had draw near on the scene and created a immense market and scared the hell without of everybody. I created the site to help the dealers. The Internet is what it is, and it's going to be as powerful as it is, with equal reason I figured I would just give them their possess site so they could in fact drive the business back to them."

As FrameYourArt.com got rolling, Marco said the company was able to tender different products that made a allotment of sense. We gave computer to clients. We started on the outside with the Buyers Club. We started a site for artists, which was a profitable thing. As the community grew we were able to provide them with their possess sites if they were our members."

Marco then purchased a company that dealt with paper and got involved with paper guru Ralph Roessler to work upon a technology called print-on-demand. He also met with Elizabeth Wenner, who had her be in possession of Web site called Artlister.com, a site Marco calls "the eBay of art," purchased her company and asked her to join the company, which was named the utmost Velocity Group (EVG).

"The company started rolling," explained Marco. "We did seminars, we did all kinds of substance and it was doing actual well. Along the way, we had move swiftly into a company that worked in photography called Photoloft. Photoloft was impressed with our pattern We started working on an alliance with them and it went real very well."

In the meantime, the company formed working relationships with Art.com and BigNose.com, a supplier of custom large format outcomes from digital images for online and retail partners. The company eventually merg with Photoloft and became the Brightcube entity.

According to Marco, this merger means big things for FrameYourArt.com and its properties. "Nothing has changing," Marco said about the company's existing properties. "We have stocks available to pursue additional opportunities moving forward. We have become stronger It takes FrameYourArt.com and makes it super-powerful. It's really made the company actual strong."

The merger also means big things for a technology called print-on-demand, or the ability to pick an individual image, have it delivered to a distant location digitally and printed at that location upon high-quality, archival papers and inks. According to Marco, the merger will mingle PhotoLoft's online Internet imaging infrastructure technology with EVG's first mover advantage in the art market and its rapidly growing nationwide network of offline brick-and-mortar art galleries and frame stores and its proprietary line of inks and paper for digital applications.

Marco said he is in the proces of bringing the technology to manufacturers with equal reason that print-on-demand technology will be available for galleries and publishers. "We're going to be able to work with our clan to give them some phenomenal tools," said Marco. "It's a really useful thing for our network. We're headed in that direction right now. The technology is already implemented into a certain number of galleries, and we're continuing all of that implementation now. We want to work with the manufacturers. We want to empower them and work with them and help them obtain through this. We will just be another vehicle to work with the publishers and different tribe to deliver product to help streamline the proces and help the galleries."

Up nearest for the company will be an appearance at Artexpo novel York next month, where according to Marco, the company will be offering print-on-demand demonstrations with several hands-on opportunities.

Indeed, that unimpaireds like a shining recipe for success

EDITOR'S NOTE

In new months, FrameYourArt.com and its properties have been busy with several strategic partnerships and alliances. greatest in quantity recent is a merger with Photoloft to form a fresh company called Brightcube. Here, we take you from the inception of FrameYourArt.com sum of two units years ago to today and explain in what way Al Marco and his Web empire have luckily tackled the tricky Internet art market.

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