ABOUT VCE INDUSTRIES
What is VCE INDUSTRIES?
VCE Industries is an artist-focused sticker printing project that collaborates closely with artists and local small businesses. The goal is to provide a reliable storefront, streamlined distribution of ethical artwork, and widely accessible pricing for artists and small businesses.
With this, the goal is also very much to create and foster a community of artists whose audiences have the opportunity to discover more local art, know that what they're buying is quality and what they're supporting is fueling growth.
All in all, its reducing the headache and overhead for artists. The goal is to put the fun part of making art back into the hands of artists. The goal is to make sure that people are having the opportunity to support the things they care about.
When you see the VCE logo on the peel-away border of a sticker, you know what you're buying is not some mass-printed ripped-off design made by and artist who doesn't even know their design is being sold, or some AI Slop somebody put together in the hopes to drop-ship adhesive paper products on Amazon.
DITCH THE LOCKS, KEEP THE KEYS.
Who is VCE?
My name is Hadley. I'm a dude who has a tendency to jump in head-first and all-the-way into projects. At some point I basically had what felt like an odd opportunity brush past me, and I decided to seize it. Months later, I've purchased a giant industrial vinyl printer/cutter (it's massive) from a business that was upgrading their equipment (and kind of switching directions/not working with vinyl anymore).
Initially this was meant for doing fleet graphics/decals. But stickers sounded like so much fun. The issue though - was artwork, where do I get it? I could just... buy the rights to stuff online and then what, print it and sell it? That legitimately sounded boring as hell. Like at that point I'm just a middle-man in a production process doing the same thing that anyone else on digital storefronts is doing. I wanted to collaborate with people, offer unique stuff, build something cool and creative.
So I met some people, we started talking, crafting a new project, new ideas. And oh boy, here we are. Still very much in the infancy but this shit is fucking rad. Legitimately an opportunity to build something new and awesome and invite tons of new artists and supporters in to be a part of something great.
Especially now, in a time where media is in excess, and concerns of AI art generators, dropshipping, mass-produced meh, it feels more important than ever to create something that offers a guarantee of ethical artwork sourcing - in one of the best mediums ever - STICKERS!
That's the idea. I think this section was supposed to be about me but it looks like I made it about the project again. The project is just so much cooler. Um... I uh... yeah I like print stickers and I like making stuff. I'm based in Salem. You can reach out and talk to me or ask me questions - my favorite part of this project is being able to meet and work with cool people so, let's connect! Reach out or join the discord or something! :)
WHAT IS VCE INDUSTRIES?
FROM FARM TO... STICKER... OR SOMETHING
Hey, artist! You're good at making art. But are you good at making merch? Do you have enough time to source high quality materials? Enough resources to buy bulk quantities of stickers from an online service that may or may not be good - just to hope you can sell them and maybe make your money back? Are you good at marketing? Do you have a plan to get your stickers sold in stores? Do you like managing a website and fulfilling orders? If you didn't have to worry about any of these things, would you have more time for art?
Well, if you don't do all of those things, you're probably not going to be making much money doing what you love. So, you don't really have much of a choice.
REALLY MAKES YOU THINK
"DITCH THE LOCKS, KEEP THE KEYS"
This is where VCE INDUSTRIES comes in. Artists maintain full ownership of their art, yet also don't have to buy bulk stickers. Partnered artists simply allow VCE to print their art into exceptional quality vinyl stickers, artists get to rest easy knowing damn well that the person printing their art cares just as much about it as they do (maybe even more, I'm a bit of a fuckin' nerd). VCE handles the rest. Order fulfillment through the online sticker shop, distribution to local businesses via the Stickerbox Project - and an even 50/50 profit split between VCE and the Artist on every single sticker sold via the Shop or the Stickerbox.
Nobody is going to tell you what to make. You don't need to worry about inventory or funding. You don't need to race against deadlines or sell the rights to your art. You can experiment, you can take risks, you can make YOUR art on YOUR terms, and I'll help make sure it gets into the hands of more people to enjoy it :)
Someone once said, "so it's like ethical redbubble, but high quality?" And while that's a bit corny, it's not wrong.
THE HEART AND SOUL OF VCE INDUSTRIES
Truly an artist-focused project, through and through. Fundamentally what we've built here is a ship that can ONLY rise together. In every fiber of how this works, it's not just meant to support artists - it's meant FOR artists, it's built FOR artists.
Less than a year ago I met Cyn and Savannah, and since then we have begun building out something so rad, that we're all so proud of, and we're all so excited for other artists and the rest of the world to get to enjoy it. Oh and we're all gonna make some money doing what we love doing. :)
ARTISTS GET PAID - IN REAL MONEY - NOT "EXPOSURE"
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Enough about VCE, check out the super rad artists at the core of the project