Website design and production | Prices vary; packages available
Our primary mission is to provide artists and creative professionals with an attractive, engaging web presence that promotes their work and contributes to their success. We offer full-service site planning, webdesign and web production for artists at all career stages and with diverse needs, and work in HTML with Cascading Style Sheets, PHP, MySQL, Javascript and Flash. Website plans come with a cost and hours estimate broken into multiple design and feedback stages to ensure that clients can have their websites produced within budget and without unnecessary cost overruns. Sophisticated project management software keeps our team and our clients in continuous contact throughout the process.
Image scanning and treatment | $5-10 each; bulk prices available
Artzaad scans negatives, slides, photographic prints, and works on paper, and can retouch, resize, and produce web- and print-ready files of your work.
Copywriting and editing | $35 an hour
With over 10 years' experience in arts publishing, our founder has written articles for magazine, newspaper and web publication, served as arts and entertainment editor at a mid-sized newspaper, spent three years co-editing a San Francisco literary journal, and moonlighted as a contributing editor at a major independent music magazine. Our team of working artists and writers brings that experience to bear in writing web copy for client websites, editing resumes and artist statements, and conceiving and writing press releases that will catch the interest of reporters and editors and help bring valuable publicity to our clients.
Promotional materials | $60 and up; package prices available
We design business cards, postcards, brochures, letterhead, promotional packets, CDs, and more.
Photographing of artwork | Prices vary
We are developing a network of photographers who photograph artwork throughout the country. If you are in need of high-quality photography of your work, ask us if we are currently working with a photographer in your area.
Video conversion for web | Prices vary
We can convert VHS video or high-bandwidth digital video to clean, web-friendly clips that can easily be viewed online.
Website maintenance | $15 per half-hour
Simple edits to your website's content can be completed rapidly and at low cost.
Consulting services | $45 per hour
We are happy to advise independent artists on any projects they would like to undertake themselves, and provide paid consultation on webdesign, site architecture, marketing, online advertising and webhosting. Best of all, any paid consultation can be applied to artzaad design or promotional work if you hire Artzaad within six months of your paid consultation.
