IN THE BEGINNING OF ARTISAN HISTORY
Company founders Doug, Joe, and John draw up company concept after hours at a local watering hole.
APR 2, 1998
Artisan Colour officially founded, providing catalog services to national brands. Located in Scottsdale, Arizona. Four original hires plus co-owners: Joe, John, and Doug.
1998
First corporate catalog account—The Territory Ahead.
1998
Sundance Catalog was our first big win as a newly founded company and has been our longest running national account.
2000
Moved from original startup location to second location in the Scottsdale Airpark.
2000
Launched photo studio—Artisan Captures.
2005
Moved to current location, third since founding Artisan Colour.
2009
Purchased Mighty Imaging, a large format printing shop, and began evolving into Artisan Colour Printing & Graphics.
2011
Founded ArtisanHD: Your Source for High Definition Art Printing—our first dot com e-commerce website.
2016
Rebranded Artisan Colour: Modern Colour + Print
2016
Began selling unique art prints created by talented artists from around the world on ArtBoja, our second e-commerce website.
2017
Launched new version of ArtisanHD e-commerce website.
2017
Launched first mobile app, SpiffySquare.
2018
Artisan Colour celebrated 20 year anniversary!
