COLLECTION OF THE ARTIST’S REQUIREMENTS FOR THE IART PLATFORM
QUESTIONNAIRE
Date:
Artist coordinates
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Name:
Mail address:
Country:
Gender: female ☐
male ☐
Website or Facebook account:
Community/association:
Art techniques and topics used:
Upload artwork
8. To photograph your art work you need a camera with a resolution
of 72 dots/inch and at least 1000 pixels on its longest side
(1000x450 display).
yes ☐
Do you own such camera ?
no, I will buy ☐
Comment:
9. May the artist edit the uploaded picture from his/her work (using
photoshop), for example repeat patterns ?
No, all art works should be authentic
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Yes if it is mentioned (labeled Altered Design)
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Comment:
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10. For the shirt print to be identical to and of the same size as the
original art work, this latter should measure 1.5 x 1.8 m. Do you
agree these designs being labeled Fashion Driven Design ?
Yes ☐
No ☐
Comment:
11. Do you agree to publish the photograph of your art work for free
configuration by the consumers against the payment of a fee ?
Yes ☐
No ☐
12. Would you give free access to the iART platform and all its
services so that any artist can register and upload for free her/his
art work ?
Yes ☐
No
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New apparel items
13. Would you like to extend the catalog to clothing accessories
fitting with the shirts ? If so which ones?
No
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Neck scarves
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Ties
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Bowties
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Pocket handkerchiefs ☐
Headscarves
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Boxer shorts
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Other:
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14. Do you advice fabrics other than cotton, like silk, to be made
available? Silk-made shirts will be shown with a shiny layer.
No
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Yes
☐ following materials:
Advanced rendering and visualization
15. Do you require an embedded placement toolkit enabling to
adapt at best the art work to the garment ? See figure. Note that
with such tool each shirt is no longer unique.
Yes, I would like to freely drape the garment with parts of my
work using such tool
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No, my artwork should be displayed at random on the shirt
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Comment:
16. If you answered yes to Q15, go to Q17. If you didn’t ( no
placement toolkit) would you need a set of tools and rules
defining what can or cannot, in order to have (partial) control
over the overall representation of the art work on the shirt ?
No
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Yes
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If yes, which rules and tools could be appropriate:
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17. Do you require that different combinations of shirts and
accessories can be visualized together, for example shirt and
neckwear (integrated layered display possibilities) ?
Absolutely
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Why not
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No
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Comment:
18. How important is real-time fabric rendering enabling instant
visualization of the art work on the fabric ?
Very ☐
Little
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Comment:
19. How important are shadowing features enabling to perfectly
view wrinkles and creases on the shirts and accessories like
scarves ? Very ☐
Little ☐
Comment:
20. How useful are rotating features ?
Useful ☐
Not so useful ☐
21. How important is automatic creation of correct pixel resolution
for desktop and mobile application?
Very ☐
Little
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Comment:
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Voting and printing (see figure)
22. Do you agree that a design is activated (printed) for sale only
after it has collected a minimum number of votes in a public
voting gallery? No ☐
If yes, may this number be 50 ?
Yes ☐
No ☐
Comment:
Pricing
23. The cost structure of a truly bespoke arty shirt is approximately
3 times higher than a standard shirt, so the market price would
also be 3 times higher, about 130 € incl a 7% fee for the artist.
Does this seem a fair price?
No
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Yes
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Comment:
24. Do you agree with a fixed % for the artist’s royalty or do you
prefer to set and increase the mark-up by yourself, resulting in
shirt prices of up to 140/150 € ?
Fixed mark-up ☐
Artist free to set mark-up ☐
Comment:
25. The cost of the first 50 m of a new artwork digital printed fabrics
being around 600 €, it is proposed that this single cost is shared
by the artist and Bivolino. The artist will be refunded by the first
shirt sales.
OK
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Not OK
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Comment:
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Sizing
26. Which sizing options should be made available ?
Standard sizing (S/M/L/XL/XXL/XXXL)
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Bivolino’s patented biometric sizing
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Full tailored sizing (11 measures)
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Additional options: sleeve length, fit (slim/loose/..), .. ☐
Comment:
Artist’s cockpit (see figure)
27. Would you like to customize the voting and shopping galleries?
No
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, if Yes:
Description and display of art techniques and topics used ☐
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CV and self portrait of the artist
Comment:
28. Do you want to name the garment designs shown and add
explanatory notes?
No
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Yes
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Comment:
29. Which information should be made available on your cockpit
dashboard to enable you to monitor your offer and sales?
Number of visitors and votes (voting gallery)
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Number of visitors and purchases (shopping gallery)
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Details of purchases
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Comments posted by the visitors/customers
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Personal data of visitors, their history, their configurations ☐
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Pricing and earnings
Other, specify:
E-marketing
30. Do you request e-marketing tools (plug-ins, APP’s, buttons)
embedded in your iART cockpit platform in order to share,
configure and edit your Arty shirts and other content over the
web from the cockpit?
☐ No
If yes, which other platforms should be considered?
☐ Social media (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram,
Pinterest)
☐ Open a Facebook shop
☐ Artist’s websites and blogs
☐ Arts e-community forums, e-galleries, fairs, blogs and web
shops
☐ Fashion e-community forums, blogs, e-galleries, fairs and eshops
☐ YouTube (video marketing)
☐ Price comparison websites (with CPC features)
☐ Other:
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Other requirements
31. Which other tools and features should be made available to
facilitate the whole process and make it easy and flexible to use ?
These are open questions – be creative !
☐ Design functionalities for easy creation – which:
☐ Publishing features – which:
☐ Quality Visualization functionalities – which:
☐ Embedded Search Engine Optimization features
☐ Chat and other tools to make the website more responsive –
which:
☐ Functionalities addressing the mobile users – which:
☐ Other embedded e-marketing tools – which:
☐ Other requirements, proposals, solutions, remarks – which:
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Embedded placement toolkit
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Artist’s iART cockpit
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