As the first successful Licensor in the unique Artwork-by-Kids product category, Kids-Did-It! Properties president, Glenn Abrams, says, “We're really excited to see there is growing consumer delight with merchandise featuring artwork created by kids – and the young kids are just as excited, especially when they see their artwork out there on store shelves!”

Kids-Did-It! has provided images for an expanding list of Licensees who have recognized the potential of this fresh new product category including Jeanmarie® Creations for Walgreens drugstores, office product giant MeadWestvaco, Deluxe subsidiary Checks Unlimited, Gibson/American Greetings, Papel Giftware™, manufacturers for Dollar Tree Stores, Prentice Hall and Houghton-Mifflin publishers and DayGlo® Color Corporation.

Recent Licensees include Leap Year Publishing who is distributing a line of Kids-Did-It! Designs® cards, gift bags and paper pads, Norwood Promotional Products offering imprintable calendars and medial planners, and Intergovernmental Philatelic Corporation offering a distinctive series of Kids-Did-It! Designs® postage stamps, with Deluxe subsidiary Checks Unlimited recently extending their licensing agreement as well.

Kids-Did-It! has also provided images for The Covenant House for homeless children, The NYC Funds for a Future campaign, as well as Audubon, KPBS-TV and the San Diego Hospice in support of their fund raising efforts.

Most of the artwork included in the Kids-Did-It! Designs® collection was created under the guidance of Glenn’s wife, California artist, art director and art teacher, Michelle Abrams. Throughout the summer young children, ages 5 to 14, have joined Michelle in her San Diego studio to study basic principles of art and design. Since 1989, her encouragement and contagious love for the arts has helped to bring out the best from her enthusiastic students. She often compares it to the classics, describing it as, "…quite colorful and strikingly beautiful – some worthy of being called 'fine art' in the tradition of Matisse, Picasso or Miro.” Michelle encourages parents and students to “take your artwork off the refrigerator, enlarge it, frame it – treat it as fine art and display it proudly around the house! That’s what we do!”

The artwork inspired Glenn, also a designer, to create Kids-Did-It! Properties™, an art-licensing and design studio that collects, represents and publishes the student artwork. Now, aside from the thrill and satisfaction of being published artists, the young artists can also earn royalties for the reproduction of their work. “What’s fun is now we can write royalty payments on our own Kids-Did-It! Designs® illustrated checks,” explains Glenn. Students often use the proceeds as extra allowance, or for college savings - some students still have framed copies of their first royalty check.

With its distinctive look and feel the Kids-Did-It! Designs® artwork collection is fresh, inspirational, very colorful and surprisingly beautiful. “The images are organized in seven categories and can be digitally adapted to a variety of materials including paper, textiles, toys, clothing, household and soft-goods, ceramics, melamine, plush toys, giftware - just let your imagination go!" says Glenn.

Kids-Did-It! Properties™ will, once again, be exhibiting their illustration collection at SURTEX and The L!CENSING Show at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center in NYC, actively seeking licensees for Housewares, Home Furnishings, Furniture, Home Accessories, Giftware, Stationary and other product categories.

“Strong retail sales combined with the enthusiastic response to our Artwork-by-Kids concept and the distinctive images in the Kids-Did-It! Designs® catalog, plus our story-telling logo and our promotional photos - all speak well for continued growth of the brand,” says Glenn.

Illustrated products, photos, news and background information, plus digitized thumbnails from the Kids-Did-It! Designs® illustration collection are available at: www.kidsdidit.com

Biographical Information

Glenn Abrams
President
Kids-Did-It! Properties™

Since graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1979, Glenn has produced, designed, directed or managed a wide variety of creative multi-media, marketing communication and entertainment projects - the most memorable include serving as Producer on Microsoft's Windows95 Launch Event/Expo and Broadcast with Bill Gates and Jay Leno; the introduction of the Lexus LS400 and the BMW 7Series automobiles; and traveling internationally in support of keynote presentations with Intel CEO, Craig Barrett.

In 1996, capitalizing on his marketing-communications and production experience Glenn partnered with his wife, Michelle, to create Kids-Did-It! Properties™, a San Diego design studio that licenses reproduction-rights to their growing Kids-Did-It! Designs® collection of fresh and colorful illustrations created by Michelle's young art students, ages 5 to 14. In addition to learning the fundamentals of art and design, each young artist also earns royalties for the reproduction of their artwork.


Michelle Abrams
Instructor
Abrams Art Studio

Art Director and Art Instructor, Michelle Abrams has a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University, and a broad range of experience in the creative arts, including animating for Sesame Street, serving as a Creative Director in Los Angeles, managing her own San Diego illustration, design and animation studio, producing her own unique watercolor paintings, and teaching fine art to adults and young children. Michelle’s professional experience, enthusiasm, and contagious love for the arts helps to bring out the best from her imaginative young art students.

For additional information, please contact Glenn Abrams:   g a b r a m s @ k i d s d i d i t . c o m   |   +1 (619) 523-5277
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