Zymmetrical: Artsy Beginnings

February 29th, 2008 @ 12:56 pm by zymetric


zymmetrical digital art

If you are into digital art then there is a really cool digital marketplace you should check out (still in beta) that aims to connect both buyers & sellers (notice the double “m”). Believe it or not, we have more in common than our names:

“[zymetrical] was an artsy fartsy type word that popped into my head and kinda stuck.”

You see, in a past life our wonderful, great, totally awesome founder was a starving artist who, when not experimenting with pen & ink, was fiddling with computers & discovering the web. In fact, if you had visited our domain 9 or 10yrs ago you wouldn’t have found novelties, but a repository of that pen & ink work. That portfolio was eventually merged with his digital art side project, swappost.

old swappost logo

Then after his first “startup”, and we use that term graciously, 321art.com went bust, he started listing the cds & various jokes he had been peddling at flea markets & eBay on the side @ the then unused zymetrical domain.

321art logo

At that point nearly all of the revenues were from used cd sales, mostly purchased in massive quantities from record store closings & various liquidations. In fact the company was initially named “Zymetrical’s Music & Novelties”. (We are trying to find one of those old logos).

Fast forward and the only thing that remains is the name. Zuh-metric-kul. We will save the rest of our corporate history for another day.

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