Now just what the heck is posterbored, mister?

1: artists come to posterbored and upload their poster designs into our competition.

2: the community of posterbored users casts votes, leaves comments for the artist, and picks the winners.

3: cool, unique posters that you can't find anywhere else show up in the shop!


Artists come to PosterBored and upload a design for a 12x18 inch poster, or 18x12 inch, if it's landscape oriented. Basically, picture a concert poster, and it's about the same size.

Once the design is uploaded, the design gets voted on for seven days. At this point, it's up to the artist to get their friends to sign up and give the design high scores.

Promote your poster! Users of PosterBored can leave comments or suggestions for the artist during this time, as well as score the design. A vote of 1 is the lowest score, and a vote of 'get this on my wall!' is the highest.

Twice a month, we'll look over all of the designs for which scoring/voting/commenting is complete. At that point, we'll choose a handful of the top scoring designs, have them printed up, and make them available for purchase in the PosterBored store.

Q: Who gets the copyrights when an artist uploads a poster design?

A: We don't want to take anyone's hard work away from them, so the copyright stays right where it belongs: With the artist who created the design. The only thing the artist is doing is giving PosterBored permission to sell the design as a poster!

Q: Do you pay your contest winners?

A: We want to reward artists who make art. Right now we're offering $50 and a copy of your design on a poster if you win. Once your design sells 50 copies, we'll send you $50. When your design sells 100 copies, you get $100! When your design sells 500 copies, you get $500!

It basically works out to a dollar for each poster sold.


Q: What are the printed posters like?

A: The posters will be printed on 12 x 18 inch sheets of 80# (that's a reference to the thickness of the paper, and 80# is pretty standard for posters) uncoated cover stock. The final product will have more of a matte finish (as opposed to a glossy finish). That way, when they're on your wall, you see the design as opposed to the glare of a nearby light reflecting off of the poster.
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Now just what the heck is posterbored, mister?

1: artists come to posterbored and upload their poster designs into our competition.

2: the community of posterbored users casts votes, leaves comments for the artist, and picks the winners.

3: cool, unique posters that you can't find anywhere else show up in the shop!


Artists come to PosterBored and upload a design for a 12x18 inch poster, or 18x12 inch, if it's landscape oriented. Basically, picture a concert poster, and it's about the sa... (read more)