Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz gave a verbal thumbs-up to Instagram and printing services that bring the app's images to life during a recent New York City gallery event held for winners of his Instagram contest.
Photo by Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
Mraz challenged fans to visually translate his latest single, "I Won't Give Up," into one photograph. He hand-picked 25 winners out of thousands of entries and met many of them Thursday at Animazing Gallery, where the top submissions -- printed on CanvasPop large-format canvas -- were on display.
Photo by Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
"Phones make us all be radical photographers," Mraz, who is one the most-followed users on Instagram, told Mashable at the event. "Instagram and CanvasPop bring a lost art form back to the real world."
Photo by Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
Amanda Prasuhn submitted one of the nearly 10,000 entries into the #iwontgiveup contest.
Photo by Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
Prasuhn, a 22-year-old University of Missouri student, says her picture was taken at the 9/11 Memorial in New York City.
Photo by Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
Nineteen-year-old Ryan Carl from Lynchburg, Va., says the contest was "completely brilliant" for both the Instagram community and Mraz, whose fourth album Love Is A Four-Letter Word drops April 17.
"We're not all professionals, but Instagram enables anybody to share on a national level," says Carl, who co-created the funny "Stuff Instagrammers Say" video that has garnered more than 90,000 views on YouTube since Feb. 26.
Photo by Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
Photo by Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
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Mraz's fourth studio album Love Is A Four-Letter Word drops April 17.
Photo by Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz gave a verbal thumbs-up to Instagram and printing services that bring the app's images to life during a recent New York City gallery event held for winners of his Instagram contest.
Photo by Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
Mraz challenged fans to visually translate his latest single, "I Won't Give Up," into one photograph. He hand-picked 25 winners out of thousands of entries and met many of them Thursday at Animazing Gallery, where the top submissions -- printed on CanvasPop large-format canvas -- were on display.
Photo by Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
"Phones make us all be radical photographers," Mraz, who is one the most-followed users on Instagram, told Mashable at the event. "Instagram and CanvasPop bring a lost art form back to the real world."
Photo by Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
Amanda Prasuhn submitted one of the nearly 10,000 entries into the #iwontgiveup contest.
Photo by Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
Prasuhn, a 22-year-old University of Missouri student, says her picture was taken at the 9/11 Memorial in New York City.
Photo by Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
Nineteen-year-old Ryan Carl from Lynchburg, Va., says the contest was "completely brilliant" for both the Instagram community and Mraz, whose fourth album Love Is A Four-Letter Word drops April 17.
"We're not all professionals, but Instagram enables anybody to share on a national level," says Carl, who co-created the funny "Stuff Instagrammers Say" video that has garnered more than 90,000 views on YouTube since Feb. 26.
Photo by Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
Photo by Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
Photo by Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
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Photo by Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
Photo by Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
Photo by Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
Photo by Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
Photo by Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
Photo by Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
Mraz's fourth studio album Love Is A Four-Letter Word drops April 17.
Photo by Mashable's Stephanie Haberman
Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz gave a verbal thumbs-up to Instagram and printing services that bring the app's images to life during a recent New York City gallery event held for winners of his Instagram contest.
Mraz challenged fans to visually translate his latest single, "I Won't Give Up," into one photograph. He hand-picked 25 winners out of thousands of entries and met many of them Thursday at Animazing Gallery, where the top submissions — printed on CanvasPop large-format canvas — were on display.
"Phones make us all be radical photographers," Mraz, who is one the most-followed users on Instagram, told Mashable at the event. "Instagram and CanvasPop bring a lost art form back to the real world."
Nineteen-year-old Ryan Carl from Lynchburg, Va., submitted one of the nearly 10,000 entries into the #iwontgiveup contest. He made small talk with Mraz as the singer signed his 20×20 wall art (see image on left).
"We're not all professionals, but Instagram enables anybody to share on a national level," says Carl, who co-created the funny "Stuff Instagrammers Say" video that has garnered more than 90,000 views on YouTube since Feb. 26.
Carl, a business marketing student, says the contest was "completely brilliant" for both the Instagram community and Mraz, whose fourth album Love Is A Four-Letter Word drops April 17. Mraz's contest likely will give him a sales boost as the song associated with the competition is the lead single from his forthcoming album.
The contest hashtag also gained plenty of traction on Twitter as most people tweeted their photos, including pop star Selena Gomez andAmerican Idol judge Randy Jackson even joined in on the contest:
This is my #iwontgiveup photo. Hana is so beautiful and one of the most incredible people I've met. Love you instagr.am/p/GsCcPYRuws/
— Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) February 7, 2012
Yo @jason_mraz #iwontgiveup instagr.am/p/Guq6yWltTA/
— Randy Jackson (@YO_RANDYJACKSON) February 8, 2012
"The event was a spectacular success — seeing Jason interact with his fans and have them share the inspiration behind their Instagram canvas prints was amazing," says CanvasPop director of marketing Spencer Callaghan.
Instagram, an iOS app that has been downloaded 27 million times, announced Sunday at South by Southwest that an Android version of the app will be released "very soon." Apple also dubbed Instagram its App of the Year in 2011, and company founder Kevin Systrom appeared in Best Buy's Super Bowl ad.
BONUS: 13 Products You Can Make From Your Instagram Pics
This Instagram'd bangle on Etsy is made by BuyMyCrap.
"We fell in love with the Instagram process and how it allows you to create pieces representative of yesteryear with different tones, filters and effects," says Lainey Bard, who's affectionately known by her customers as Mrs. Crap. "Since we create wearable works of art, we decided to include Instagram inspired pieces in our shop."
The Craps access the Instagram API via iPod to pull photos. Bangles are sold for $40.
If you're on Instagram, odds are you have an iPhone 4 or 4S -- create a custom iPhone case on Casetagram to protect it.
Photos can be laid out in various ways — in small square, in squares of varying sizes (left), within bubbles or honeycombs and in shapes, like a heart.
The cases offer a fun way to show off your favorite things, and they're always a conversation starter. The shell background can be white, black or transparent, and the cases sell for $34.95 a pop.
These coasters are made by Allison Kaye and sold on Etsy. Kaye prints pictures with her high quality photo professional printer to make sure they are crisp and vivid.
"I have been a user of Instagram since it started, and have just always loved the photos," Kaye says. "I wanted a way to show them off and had seen someone who used decorative paper to make coasters and thought, 'I'd love to show off my Instagram photos in the same way!'"
Kaye says she's had a huge influx of customers, especially during the holidays. While you can choose photos from a friend's feed through Gramfeed or Statigr.am — making it more personal — her city collections for Chicago and New York have been the most popular item. "The city ones seem to be a good base for gifts," she says.
With an API and a printer, the possibilities are endless. Kaye says she plans to "add more 'basic' packages to my coaster collection, such as nature, more cities and possibly bar-related themes."
ImageSnap (formerly TeenyTile) creates ceramic tiles from your Instagram pics. As Teeny Tiles, the company focused on 2" by 2" tiles, but now there are various sizes, up to 12" square, and you can choose a glossy or matte finish.
Depending on the size, you can use them as magnets (they come with an adhesive magnet), paperweights, wall decor and even create an artsy mosaic. The 2" tiles are $4 a pop.
Whether you're decorating your home, your laptop, your school notebooks or your cube, you might have use for Instagram stickers. Printstagram offers 252 stickers for $10, and each sticker is 20mm square.
(ArtFlakes is another great sticker option, but the company is improving the design for the ArtStickers, so you won't be able to get Instagram stickers for a few weeks.)
StickyGram is a London-based company that turns your Instagrams into magnets that are the size of the Instagrams on your phone. You can order a batch of nine magnets for $14.99 with free shipping.
Kejia Zhu came up with StickyGram in February 2011 — he had been playing around with Instagram, and when the API was announced, "printing magnets seemed like a cool way to use it." He threw up a landing page and had 1,400 signups within a week.
Thus far, "the response has been astounding," he says. From day one, StickyGrams has offered free shipping, but Zhu says it's paid off. "To date, StickyGrams have been sent to over 80 different countries. It's still a bit of a shock to see orders from places like Azerbaijan and Peru, but it goes to show how global the Instagram community is."
We've bought StickyGrams of our own, and we're a big fan.
CanvasPop created special technology so that Instagram pics could be blown up to 12" ($39.95) or 20" ($59.95) squares on stretched canvas.
CanvasPop co-founder Adrian Salamunovic has been a huge fan of Instagram from day one, so he experimented using his own Instagram photos until CanvasPop "cracked the code" on how to make Instagram pictures hi-res enough for canvas. Launched just a few months ago, the Instagram prints now comprise around 15% of the orders, says Salamunovic.
"Instagram users tend to be artistic, creative hyper-connected influencers and the Instagram aesthetic translates remarkably well onto canvas," he adds. "We learned a lot from Kodak's failure to innovate in an ever-changing market -- and we want to make sure we never stop listening to the market and taking advantage of new exciting opportunities in the marketplace."
And the reception has been great -- an ongoing contest to win a free Instagram CanvasPop has garnered 4,000 entries.
A year never looked so good. Keepsy lets you make a calendar from your Instagram pics with a dead-simple, drag-and-drop interface (left). The final product is 11" by 8.5" and starts at $19.99.
There's also Calendagram, a mobile app that lets you pick 12 Instagram photos for a customized calendar. It's a great last-minute gift idea, especially if you're on the go.
Postagram lets you send a postcard from your phone for $0.99 each (the app is free). The postcard comes with a pop-out Instagram photo for the recipient to hold on to. It's a great message to send home if you're traveling, and a fun twist on snail mail, especially for birthday cards.
Photo albums don't just belong on Facebook anymore. Self-publishing platform Blurb lets you create your own photo book, chock full of Instagrams. A softcover book with 20 pages of Instagrams costs $10.95, and you can also get a hardcover and go up to 240 pages, if you have a lot of pics to flaunt.
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