These days, there are endless gifts to choose from for your
partner, online and offline: from funk clothing to wacky joke gifts --
you can really find anything you want out there.
But you know what is very hard to find as a gift for your partner? Art.
Most
art out there is either too expensive or too cheesy. And almost NONE of
it is designed for a couple. It's generic paintings that make you feel
like you are your grandparents.
Recently, however, a new breed of websites has been
born: websites selling art designed for a couple and as a gift for your
partner. Something that is meaningful for you two, that represents you
two as a couple -- that is beautiful and unique and you can hang on your
wall and look at it every day and remember your love!
Our favorite such website is... Art for Lovers: Wedding and Anniversary Art Gifts for Couples.
The concept is quite interesting. Rather than sell
expensive art or cheap reprints, and rather than sell generic art for
everyone... what if, you could get original art prints, at a reasonable
price -- of art aimed only at couples!
And even better: what if you could inscribe a
message on it, or have a section of it where it could be signed by, say,
all the attendees of a wedding?
What's interesting about this is that, it ties into a few trends that are making everything cooler and better:
* The trend to give more creative gifts
* The trend to have signing boards at events
* The trend to incorporate art and design into more aspects of your life, and your special events.
This last trend is particularly interesting and
noteworthy. Our ancestors, for thousands of years, lived in a universe
of scarcity: barely enough food, and only a tiny elite could afford
luxuries like, traveling more than a few miles from where you were born.
But in today's new universe -- for all of our
complaints and challenges -- is an era of luxury as compared to the
thousands of years of known history that proceeded it.
And
we see that represented in our newfold interest in decorating our homes
and our special events. Today, more than just something that "looks
good", we want something "personal" and meaningful for us.
And art -- unique art for you -- goes to the depths of the human experience.
But
here's the best part: if you give art as a gift, then, every time the
couple or your partner looks at the art on the wall, they will think of
you! It's okay if your gift satisfies just a touch of egoism, as well.
All gifts do, to varying degrees, so we may as well acknowledge it! The
key here, is that the couple loves it, of course.
