HershelGibbs

“Art is not made to decorate rooms.” - Pablo Picasso. And I would add: it’s not made to live only on screens either. Today, we’re bringing Print on Demand back to DeviantArt - starting with T-shirts. DeviantArt has a long history of creators selling their art on physical products. For years, our legacy Print Shop was part of that experience. And whenever I meet longtime Deviants, I’m reminded how personal those products became. Someone will tell me about a print they still have on their wall, a mug they use every morning, or a calendar they still keep as a souvenir. That was always the magic of it: art leaving the screen and becoming part of someone’s everyday life. Eventually, we had to retire the old Print Shop. The technology was aging, it wasn’t built to scale, and fulfillment and shipping was too limited, too expensive, or simply unavailable in parts of the world. Sometimes, to build something properly for the future, you first have to let go of the old system. So when we