We want to help you find new leads beyond your current mailing list. We want to get more eyeballs on you and your work. We want to give you're the benefits of HTML email format.
Membership is by invitation only and offers four opportunities to promote your work to art directors. Reach prospects in North America, the UK and Europe with weekly email promotions for the Collective.
Sign on for the Premium Memberships and receive individualized custom lists specific to your interests along with HTML designed emails and reports. And with a Premium Plus membership we’ll promote your work every six weeks.
Now in our fourth year, we’re seeing ever increasing interest in our Collective as a valuable resource. And this year, a new category and three payment options.
Your page in our online gallery includes a brief bio, list of clients and contact information. We’ll promote the gallery weekly to a select group of art directors in editorial, advertising and publishing. You receive quarterly reports of all activity.
Example: Our emails bring as many as 8,000 visitors to our 3x3 Collective website each week.
Includes all the benefits of the Standard Membership plus you’ll be able to select categories you’re most interested in, ones you want to expand and new ones you wish to explore. We’ll create a minimum of three individualized HTML emails; identify the audience we feel will be receptive to your work from our extensive list of contacts in North America, the United Kingdom and Europe.
With our experience in advertising, design and publishing we know which contacts will be the decision-makers, and which won’t. Check out our list of categories (Editorial & Magazines, Publishers, Ad Agencies & Design Firms).
Includes all the benefits of the Standard and Premium Membership with the added bonus of a minimum of six HTML emails. We will promote commissioned and non-commissioned work throughout the year.
Most illustrators use plain text emails; we want to upgrade you to HTML emails like the examples here. We’ll develop a subject line that we feel will get opened. The “3x3 Recommends” banner is followed by praise for your work by our founder and former creative director, Charles Hively. We’ll help select a single image from your site and add a positive quote from an art director you’ve worked with along with contact links.
We’ve found this approach has been successful in getting through to art directors. And we’ll track the response on our end after each email and share those results with you.
Example: Smaller lists nets between 500–750 clicks to a website with an additional number to Instagram and LinkedIn. Larger lists result in between 1,250–4,200 clicks to a website*. In addition, we also have a link to your page on the Collective which has links to your website and Instagram.
New to the field? We’ll substitute a brief paragraph about your work, accolades and how you approach assignments in lieu of the art director quote.
*Analytics provided by SendGrid, a email marketing company, and verified by each illustrator.
Basic Membership: Post five images with the opportunity to update during the year. Have the advantage of weekly promotions of the Collective to a select list of art directors in editorial, advertising and publishing. Quarterly reports will be shared. $360
Standard Membership: Post ten images and with the opportunity update during the year. We may select one of your images for our weekly emails promoting the Collective. Quarterly reports will be shared. $480
Premium Membership: In addition to the Standard Membership, we’ll develop individualized prospect lists, HTML designed emails to be delivered in a minimum of three email blasts over the course of the year. Plus enjoy the benefits of weekly promotions of our Collective where your work will also be shown. Email analytics provided. $600
Premium Plus Membership: Like the Premium Membership, we’ll develop individualized prospect lists, HTML designed emails but in this case delivered in six email blasts over the course of the year. Plus enjoy the benefits of weekly promotions of our Collective where you’re work will also be shown. Email analytics provided. $840
Monthly and 3-Month Payment plans are available.
Registration Deadline: December 1, 2026
Materials Deadline: December 11, 2026
Campaign Dates: January 13–December 15, 2027*
We will be limiting the number of illustrators in our collective, so be sure to take advantage of this unique offer now.
*Not including major US holidays.
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