The Greeting Card Business: Design and Sell Your Own Cards

Course details

This class is for the artist, cartoonist, photographer or crafter who wants to learn about the greeting card business. Whether you want to sell cards into stores, sell online, license to publishers, or work at a company, this course will cover the fundamentals of how to get started in the greeting card business.Topics of this course include the professional card design such as themes, colors, patterns, text, and sizes, and how to get your cards into the marketplace through stores, apps and licensing. There is a final project to create six cards and the option to post them in an online community gallery. This class is taught by Kate Harper, a designer who has worked in the card industry for 20 years and has published over a 1,000 cards. She writes a blog on new trends in the greeting card business and does interviews and industry research on the market. She also moderates a greeting card design community group.