The Institute of Questionable Art
Preparing the room.
Nigel is straightening the frames and clearing his throat...
Dimming the lights to a flattering, faintly judgemental level...
Uncorking something he cannot pronounce but insists is correct...
Adjusting the velvet rope around nothing in particular...
Rehearsing an opinion he will deliver as though it were always obvious...
Free Digital E-Cards
A birthday, apology, thank-you, or faintly formal ambush: create the artwork in the Commissioned Wing, keep the variation that survives review, then email it to someone with your message inside. Free to send. Verified by email. Ridiculous by design.
Generation and sending both begin with an account. The card itself is free; the Institute merely insists on knowing who opened the envelope.
Choose your starting point
If there is no saved artwork, make one first. If the collection already contains a survivor, proceed directly to dispatch.
The order is plain: make the artwork, keep one variation, then send it or order the object. The committee has been asked not to complicate this. It is coping.
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Start with an account so the finished artwork and sent card have somewhere to live.
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Upload one ordinary photo, choose one movement, and review the four variations.
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Keep one work, verify your email, write the message, and the Institute dispatches a free digital card.
What gets sent
The free e-card is not a product maze. Choose the saved artwork, address the recipient, decide whether the original photo should be confessed, and send.
The desk sends one message to the address you enter, with a private link to the digital card.
They see the saved artwork, your message, the occasion, and enough institutional gravity to trouble a mantelpiece.
The ordinary photo stays hidden unless you deliberately turn on the reveal before dispatch.
Every dispatched card records a verified sender email. Charm is encouraged. Anonymous nonsense is not.
E-card Questions
Yes. Create or sign in, make or choose a saved artwork, write the message, and send the digital e-card by email. You pay only if you choose a download, print, card, mug, or other gift.
Yes. Upload an ordinary photo to the Studio, let the Commissioned Wing render four variations, keep one artwork, then use it as the e-card cover.
Only if you choose to reveal it. The source photo stays hidden unless you deliberately enable the reveal before dispatch.
Yes. The account stores the saved artwork, verifies the sender, and gives the card somewhere respectable to live. Nigel calls it governance.