KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 — Calling all arts, illustration, and eco-friendly product lovers!
Prepare for STIVE ASIA, South-east Asia’s main inventive hub that serves to attach proficient artists and people who love arts, sustainable items, and love making a distinction by way of purposeful artwork.
Working beneath the banner of creativity and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Company Governance), STIVE ASIA’s novel launch of its Artwork Print on Demand is not like another digital marketplaces on the market.
Right here’s the way it works: STIVE ASIA’s chosen artists will make accessible their masterpieces on the platform that permits patrons or people to pick out their desired design and even add their very own private parts or touches to the paintings.
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This could even be custom-printed onto finish merchandise like recycled plastic T-shirts, upcycled luggage in addition to a bunch of different merchandise together with jute luggage, cellphone circumstances, and leather-based lanyards.
Personalisation may be executed by way of STIVE ASIA’s on-line customisation software, giving prospects quick access to freely customise.
This isn’t all! The top-products will not be simply the standard off-the-shelf gadgets. Each merchandise ordered goes in direction of supporting an excellent trigger and driving constructive social change, the place proceeds are donated to the worldwide humanitarian NGO, World Imaginative and prescient.
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STIVE ASIA founder Jeff Fan mentioned this mission is very near his coronary heart because it achieves a three-in-one mission of empowering artists, elevating buyer expertise, paving the best way for constructive environmental and social affect with income-generating alternatives that assist livelihoods.
Whereas the merchandise are eco-friendly and sustainable, they’re additionally produced by marginalised native communities based mostly on the United Nation’s Sustainable Growth Targets that conform to moral manufacturing practices whereas assembly prospects’ demand for responsibly-created items.
“It makes me blissful to additionally give again to a worldwide trigger whereby a share from the gross sales proceeds is channelled in direction of World Imaginative and prescient, which helps kids and households overcome excessive poverty by way of numerous programmes,” mentioned Fan.
Protected to say, company corporations, small companies and even people needn’t look additional when sourcing the acquisition of significant, out-of-the-ordinary, and premium items made by underserved artisans — starting from upcycled beauty pouches to tote luggage — whereas carrying custom-print artworks.
Moreover, the Artwork Print On Demand additionally carries the excellence of being the first-and-only on-line to offline print-on-demand market that helps artists showcase their paintings each on-line and offline.
Venues of Artwork Print on Demand kiosk embody Kinokuniya KLCC, Stickerrific Jaya One, Bunkuya at Taiping, Taylor’s College and INTI College.
Prospects can go to these areas and expertise the bodily items, in addition to search assist from the employees on how they’ll customise their merchandise utilizing the web customisation software.
Slightly backgrounder on STIVE ASIA: In 2020, it began out as an all-in-one digital asset market that housed licensed and authentic IPs, then it steadily grew its fame because the go-to platform for manufacturers, SMEs, or for any collector to buy creations produced solely by authentic and real artists.
Past domestically, it has additionally made waves in South-east Asia as the primary ecosystem that permits creators or artists to monetise their creations as much as seven sorts of digital property beneath one roof.
“We’re grateful for the rising neighborhood of customers and creators who consider in STIVE ASIA. It has enabled us to unfold our wings farther from the place we first began out with digital IP, to this Artwork Print On Demand as our newest providing,” Fan added.
Each creators and customers can have entry to the digital IP market at STIVE ASIA for gratis.
For these fascinated about accessing extra options, the speed card for the completely different subscription plans for each creators and customers are as follows:
1. Artist Membership Subscription, from US$15/month2. Limitless IP subscription for customers, US$79/12 months
Moreover sourcing IP from STIVE ASIA, prospects may also crowdsource for creations by requesting submissions from artists based mostly on a inventive temporary and eventually choose one that matches their price range. The crowdsource mission begins from as little as US$199.
As a complete inventive answer platform, STIVE ASIA permits each customers and creators to purchase and promote Licensed Digital IP, design contests for {custom} tasks, and eco-friendly merchandise printed with digital IP. At present, the platform has registered over 1,000 creators, 50,000 IPs and counting, and an amassed 100,000 login classes until date.
It additionally achieved a milestone of efficiently signing Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with six greater academic establishments specifically TARUMT, Raffles School, Taylor’s College, INTI College, UCSI, and Nippon Designer College up to now. The intention is to introduce the thought of digital IP monetisation to over 2,000 arts and design college students in these campuses, which may be made easy by way of STIVE ASIA.
Fan mentioned it’s his hope that STIVE ASIA can contribute to the native economic system, stimulate digital entrepreneurship and nurture extra skills on the inventive entrance in the long term.
“My dream is to see the model take off efficiently past Malaysian shores, with a large and incremental uptake all through South-east Asia’s inventive neighborhood and customers,” he mentioned.
Artwork Print On Demand presents merchandise at a beginning value of US$19 per piece.
To study extra about STIVE ASIA’s Artwork Print on Demand and how one can additionally have fun artwork and champion sustainability and a aware change for the long run, go to www.apod.stive.asia.
It’s also possible to observe STIVE ASIA throughout its social media platforms — “Stive Asia Official” for Instagram, and “Stive Asia” for Fb, Tik Tok and Xiao Hong Shu.