The first and foremost point for many of our customers is to be the sole person who can claim to truly own the artwork of some location they hold dear to their hard. It's nice to be able to show off that you own part of your city and none of your friends can take that from you!
Other than that, there's some benefits including easy access to order a print of said art through our website + possibility to choose to allow reproductions of the work down the line which would generate royalties for the owner as compensation.
Garm & Ralph here from TURF! We're thrilled to introduce our new cartographic art project that we’ve been working on. TURF is a unique project where each 2x2km square of earth is available for sale only once, creating an art experience where you can be the true sole owner of your piece of earth.
Each TURF piece includes:
1. A proof of ownership certificate, stored on the Cardano blockchain as an NFT
2. 2D HQ art file that you can use as you see fit
3. 3D digital interactive art for on your phone
4. The ability to order museum grade prints of your TURF on our webshop for yourself or for others
We’ve heard people wonder why we rely on NFTs to distribute TURF’s map art - we think it’s a great way to ensure that each TURF square has only one owner and transparently show this to everyone in a publicly verifiable way.
Furthermore, we believe that unlike other NFT projects the TURF art style has mainstream appeal among all ages. This could make TURF a great starter NFT for folks with latent interest in the concept.
That’s why we’ve invested in making the buying experience easy enough that you could recommend TURF to your non-tech-savvy friends and family. They can go to https://turfnft.com and use their credit card to buy the 2x2km square with their hometown on it. If you didn’t already get it for yourself, of course.
But that's not all - we've got some exciting plans for the future, including a royalties system for owners of TURF NFTs, which will allow them to earn a percentage of the revenue we make from selling merchandise featuring their cartographic art.
We're also looking to expand to multiple blockchains and work with even more event organizers to gift free NFTs to their attendees.
We can't wait for you to explore the world of TURF and see the incredible cartographic art of all the different places on the planet. Stay tuned for more updates from TURF!
Turf | Digital & Physical Art | Remote | Bootstrapped | Part Time
Turf creates cartographic art of every place you love.
We split the earth in squares of 2x2 kilometer and sell autogenerated art of each square only once.
When you buy a Turf piece you get:
- 3D interactive file
- HQ file perfect for fine art printing
- License to sell prints of your square of earth
We keep track of ownership using NFTs, but are increasingly moving away from emphasizing this as we work on entering non-crypto markets.
That said, we recently partnered with the Cardano Summit to facilitate the free NFTs that attendees could claim as part of their swag bag. We distributed over 20 000 NFTs between the 52 locations that the Cardano Summit took place.
We’re planning to collaborate with 10 more events like the Cardano Summit in 2023 and are hiring to achieve this goal:
1. Business Development Manager - to reach out to and negotiate partnerships
2. Communications Manager - to make sure we stay present everywhere
3. Project Manager - to run the actual event partnerships
Ultimately our goal is to become market leader of relationship gifts in the digital world.