Designers and illustrators require a newsletter. Email is a necessity because it provides designers and illustrators ways to:
- Connect with subscribers
- Share project updates
- Market their services or products
- Grow their subscriber base
Designers and illustrators need to build meaningful connections with their clients and fan base. Newsletters allow artists to foster a community and build an active community around their art. Buttondown's built-in comments appear right at the bottom of your newsletter archive, giving subscribers a place to react, discuss, and connect.
Buttondown enables you to do more with your emails. Highlight the best best-seller you illustrated using our Bookshop.org integration. Manage your commissions and bookings using surveys. Track and monitor performance and growth with detailed analytics. Our analytics are tailored for artists' needs by providing valuable insights such as subscriber device and browser metrics.
Designers and illustrators love to use automation tools for email personalization. Buttondown's tag and segmentation features assist with email personalization, organization, and subscriber management, ensuring your artful emails are sent to the intended group. All while keeping your list nice and neat.
For many designers and illustrators, email is an important marketing channel. Buttondown's extensive, artist-friendly, features like attachments, integrations,surveys, paid subscriptions, and archives make marketing your art or services a breeze.
To extract the most value from their newsletter, designers and illustrators need an email platform with a powerful archive tool. We designed our archive feature with this need in mind by making it as robust as possible. Buttondown has multiple time-saving minimalistic templates for you to build upon. Our announcement bar feature is perfect for increasing revenue. You can promote your online shop sales, merch drops, and upcoming projects in an instant!
We are constantly improving our design and customization options so that you have all the tools needed to create visually stunning and compelling archive pages.
What are the long term outcomes of email newsletters as a designer or illustrator?
A lot of designers and illustrators are die-hard newsletter-ers (we're making this a thing) because of the impact it has on their careers. They are able to grow their base and clientele, market their work, and build a thriving community revolving around their artwork.
Another great long-term benefit of newsletters is the option to turn your newsletter into a meaningful source of income. Buttondown's multi-tiered paid subscription feature is perfect for designers and illustrators because we do not charge fees. You'll keep all of the revenue that you make.
If your goal is to quickly scale your newsletter with ease, then you're right where you need to be (reading this article)!
The market is full of email newsletter platforms choosing the best platform for your needs can be difficult. So, why should you choose Buttondown to send your newsletters over one of the big guys? Glad you asked!
What Buttondown brings to the table:
In comparison to other companies, Buttondown is an affordable option for boot-strapped designers and illustrators. Our pricing plans start at just $9/mo. We've thoughtfully designed our editor to be intuitive and easy to use. We made sure to craft robust tools with artists like you in mind. Buttondown is also a privacy first company. We don't collect any data about you or your subscribers by default.
Furthermore, Buttondown is proudly a customer-centric company, you are always speaking to real people who are ready to help––no bots here! Unlike other companies, everyone receives the VIP treatment, not just the highest paid tier.
Buttondown's goal is to provide you with the most powerful features that make the act of writing great emails, showcasing your beautiful art, and managing a subscriber list as enjoyable and effortless as possible. A simple, powerful, and long-lasting email platform with no gimmicks, just fun. That's our promise to you.
Designers and illustrators choose our platform because we stick to what we're best at: sending emails and helping folks succeed.
Buttondown is trusted by multiple designers and illustrators, including:
- Jessi Eoin (they/them), A comic artist, illustrator, and writer whose work focuses on uplifting fat, disabled, queer, and trans people. Their work has been published in Just Femme & Dandy, Wizards in Space Literary Magazine, carte blanche, PeachFuzz Magazine, Rebel Mountain Press’s Disabled Voices Anthology, and elsewhere. They have also exhibited with the Feminist Art Collective’s Feminist Art Fest.
- Tommy Parker, A UK-based illustrator and an Associate Lecturer at the University of Plymouth. Tommy’s illustrations are both character and color-driven. Whilst graphic, they retain a tactile warmth and quirkiness. They aim to show intimate moments in accessible worlds. His work has been featured in editorials, book covers, branding, and advertising campaigns.
- Sarah Becan, A comics artist, author, illustrator, and designer based in Chicago. She is the creator of the food-centric autobiographical webcomic, I Think You’re Sauceome. She's illustrated the cookbook The Adventures of Fat Rice and is the author/co-author and illustrator of the super fun Let's Make Series. Her work has appeared in various acclaimed publications, including Saveur, Eater, Organic Life, StarChefs, and Tasting Table. She also has an adorable cat, Toki, who is frequently featured in her newsletter.