60uniteforchildren.com is a website designed for the launch of the newly published Art Book. This 180 pages book gathers artworks created by 60 graphic artists across the globe and is dedicated to UNICEF. After some readings, I feel that the goal of this project is not only to profit UNICEF, but also to promote graphic arts. I’m personally interested in graphic arts, so I actually know about some of the artists involved in this project. Their individual work, if being published in prints, would easily cost over the price they are selling for this book.
APAG’s association (Association for the Promotion of Graphic Arts) is the non-profit organization behind this project and they’ve cut down on some of the prices on shipping so that this book can be even more affordable. The price of this book is at 35EURO and shipping to Canada is 19EURO. I checked the exchange rate to Canadian dollars and it came to a total at around $73 including shipping. I’m not really a big fan of collecting items, but I do feel that this is something worth keeping in my own hands. Not to mention it is for a good cause, but also the rare occasion of a book that is solely created by 60 united graphic artists for the purpose of raising awareness.
Just a quick mention: the book has just been launched for sale online on October 24, 2007. There are only 2000 copies produced and 1800 on stock.
60, Unite for Children: http://www.60uniteforchildren.com
Shop Online: http://www.shop.apag-editions.org/
UNICEF: http://www.unicef.org/
PS – Jeremy and I both ordered one! =D