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Back to school
Today marks the start of the school term, a bittersweet time where the kids head back to a new year of learning and parents readjust to having no children around. 2016/17 was a great holiday but after...
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Print sales to the UK & US markets changed over Xmas 2016
Our analytics maven pointed out something interesting to us recently. NZ Fine Prints' revenue from sales into two traditionally strong markets - the United States and the United Kingdom - dropped over...
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Who is Milton Springsteen?
Street art's profile rises in NZ Back in 2009 street art wasn't an art movement that NZers were particularly familiar with, we knew about graffiti (and that in general this was a bad thing) and I...
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Reuben Price's NZ Flora photographic prints
Pohutukawa Portrait Flora PrintNew prints just released by Auckland photographer Reuben Price are truly breathtaking. His game changing new series of "NZ Flora" art prints have an incredibly life-like...
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Yesteryear Prints - A Christchurch landmark
Christchurch picture framer and art print retailer Yesteryear Prints is to close its doors after 35 years.This suburban print gallery in Beckenham was very well known in Christchurch both for their...
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2018 NZ Fine Prints Catalogue coming out this week
Glimpse of NZ Fine Prints 2018 catalogue - (artists "A"...)This was going to be called the New Zealand Fine Prints "50th Anniversary" catalogue but we chickened out due to our anniversary actually...
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Lindauer print found in US antique shop with background story about this...
One of the interesting aspects of working at a business with a high profile online is the "unpaid helpdesk" kind of enquiries that flow in via email, over the phone and increasingly through Facebook...
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Ends of lines - endangered prints about to sell out
"Boat at the Wharf" by Stanley Palmer(4 prints left today)I'm writing about our "endangered prints" collection this month because we have had an unusually high number of prints going into this ends of...
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Artist Submissions
Please note this article is regarding artists submitting reproduction prints of their paintings to NZ Fine Prints, not multiple originals (editions) which are not copies of another artwork. We...
View ArticleMailing dates for Xmas gifts 2017
From now until Christmas is the busiest time of the year sales wise for NZ Fine Prints. Art prints are perennially popular Xmas gifts and making sure we deliver on time for Xmas around the world and...
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End of an era for controversial printmaker Lester Hall
It took a while for the message to get through as we initially didn't believe that printmaker Lester Hall was going to take nearly all of his prints off the market because he wanted to get away from...
View Article2017, Year in review for NZ art market
Like many retailers a big story for us in 2017 was the great election pause, the spending hiatus between September's election and the coalition's formation of a new government several weeks later. Why...
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Fine Art Print vs Fine Art Printing
Can a print of fine art not be a fine art print?I've never really liked the fine print part of our businesses name because it's meaning can be lost in a different context, ie the agreement sounds...
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Inventory management system at NZ Fine Prints
We've had our share of business misfortune over the years.Our office in the late 1960s was abandoned after a fire in the National Party offices below it, there was another fire which destroyed our...
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Island series a breath of fresh air
A decade ago artist Barry Ross Smith created a series of artworks that were hailed by critics as "hymns to rural New Zealand", there followed a collection of top selling prints that sold to city and...
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Gallery Prints Closure
Last week saw the unexpected demise of Gallery Prints' in gallery kiosks and their online store. They closed for the Xmas/New Year holiday at the end of 2017 but the update "Sorry, orders are now...
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The New Zealand Association Lithographs
1837 NZ Association Advert selling"Prints of NZ scenes, landscapes & portraits"On page 79 of Early Prints of New Zealand this advertisement for "A series of Landscapes, Scenes and Portraits,...
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New Zealand Illustrated by E. Wakefield
Cover of New Zealand IllustratedThis book of sixteen chromolithographic views is more commonly known as "Potts and Willis", to distinguish it from the E . J . Wakefield work, Illustrations to...
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Early Artists of the Colony
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Store re-design for New Zealand Fine Prints
Last day for our old storefront designAfter two years of customer research, user testing, design & development the fifth generation of New Zealand Fine Prints' online store went live on Thursday...
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