This innovative product is designed to change the world of temporary tattoos and body art, with the ability to feature countless still and moving images on a wearable sticker. GifSkin even allows body art fans to upload and wear their own unique designs and enhances consumer engagement for individual businesses.
GifSkin Incorporated is a subsidiary of Black Collar Innovations LLC. and began operations in 2017. Owned and operated by a talented group of inventors, production specialists and artists, GifSkin focuses on embracing collaborative and creative business practices. By combining our core values with innovative & dynamic technologies, GifSkin aims to establish itself as a leader in visual experience enhancement. GifSkin values building relationships with creative and tech savvy partners who share our dedication to superior products, excellent customer service, sustainability & affordability while wowing our consumers.
On a whim, Adam Shilts, GifSkin Founder, CEO, and Inventor, was researching tattoos and the different styles of body art around the world. In thinking about the future of tattoos, Adam realized that it was going to be hard for body art to get any better than it is right now.
As he started to visualize the future of body art, Adam realized that tattoos could actually go in a new direction. They could be changeable and interactive. This new type of body art would not only offer something new and innovative, it would also solve a number of problems that are associated with tattoos.
Adam grew more excited about his new idea for tattoos and body art, so he started performing additional research to see how he could make these customizable and interactive tattoos possible, and he created GifSkin.
During the early stages of GifSkin, Adam quickly realized that he didn’t want to focus on permanent tattoos at first. Instead, he decided that temporary tattoos would be a much broader market that posed fewer logistical challenges. With this focus, he began to develop GifSkin.
GifSkin is product line and services centered around dynamic, digital, wearable art. With short and long-term applications, GifSkin offers a variety of options for individual consumers in various sizes and applications- A GIF digital file in full-color and high-resolutions applied directly to the skin to feature either still and/or animated body art. Customizable and interactive, the options for ‘Gif-art’ are limited only by the imagination. Body art enthusiasts can upload images from the GifSkin app – or they can transform their own images into GIFs and upload them to their individual GifSkin display.
Although there are many ways to use GifSkin, our current focus lies within the entertainment industry, and we are currently targeting retail space at music festivals around the country. Through live event imagery and collaboration with performers, GifSkin brings a new and dynamic product into the market. Retail spaces at these festivals have traditionally been lackluster, but GifSkin will allow fans to have a more interactive festival experience.
To make GifSkin a reality, our team is exploring several different materials that we can use to create a micro-thin and flexible film with optional adhesive backing. We are also developing a custom app with wireless upload capabilities. The team at GifSkin is excited to continue to our progress with this project and work with some amazing people in the process.
Wondering what makes GifSkin so unique? It’s a combination of features that work together to create an innovative product that will revolutionize the way the world wears body art.
Our team is developing GifSkin under Black Collar Innovations, Adam’s early-stage product development company. It is an exciting time for GifSkin, because the product is entering the prototyping phase. We are moving from an idea to a reality!
We are working to develop the GifSkin app and product. Once we receive the necessary funding, our team will be able to expedite the development process and enter GifSkin into the marketplace, focusing at first on music festivals.
However, we aren’t content to develop just one product and leave it at that. We currently have four to five new products across multiple genres in the works. Our team is happy to provide more information about these projects to individuals who sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA).
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Adam is a professional from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. With a background in personal training, Adam excels in motivating those he works with, is an excellent social leader and, as a rule provides exceptional customer service. As business manager and advisor to multiple start-up companies, Adam has refined these skills, enhanced his overall management capabilities, and built a solid network across a variety of markets.
Adam took these skills and on his own to obtain his first provisional patent in 2011. The Wave Bar, an exercise and rehabilitation tool, was the Runner-Up in the 2015 Chippewa Valley Idea Challenge. Immersing himself in the process of developing the Wave Bar from conception to production, Adam has become fluent in multi-system collaborations with the first generation of Wave Bar products to hit the market in April of 2017. Since then, he has developed additional product ideas one of which is GifSkin.
Ryan’s education began in international marketing which highlighted global market analysis and cross- cultural communications. He then took this knowledge and expanded his work experience into communication engineering. He holds multiple certifications in the communications engineering Field and has worked within both acute care and administrative settings. After 4 years of work with GE as a lead tech for the upper mid west region, he finished with Phillips as a Field engineer for the smoky mountains region. Ryan is proficient in integrating complex biomedical monitoring systems into outdated infrastructures, identifying and tracking biomedical equipment through IR â˜tagâ™ technologies and is well versed in all components of similar research and development.
Ryan is also an avid carpenter and blacksmith; whose progressive designs bring together both his technical expertise and an innate creativity. Through both, Ryan has been able to successfully develop and produce innovative tools for multipurpose applications in recreational and outdoor markets. He does so with sustainability in mind and streamlines his production to maximize efficiency. All the above make Ryan an essential member of the GifSkin team.
Jamie’s professional experience is diverse. She has 12 years of experience working in intensive care units, emergency department in Level I trauma centers throughout Minnesota; including one of the leading Burn Centers in the Nation. Because of Jamie’s knowledge of skin, she and Adam collaborated to shift the focus for GifSkin from permanent to temporary tattoos.
As a licensed teacher, Jamie currently teaches and tutors advanced science and mathematics. She also works as a private educational consultant for public school administrators to increase funding for special needs students.
Jamie is also an independent business owner who specializes in concert photography and live event promotion and has worked with the Pointer Sisters and Soul Asylum. As a photographer, she’d mentored under Fritz Hoffman, an accredited photojournalist with National Geographic. Under his tutelage, She became fluent in the art of creating a visual narrative and possess a valuable skill set in digital artistry and graphic design.
Maureen R. Chapin’s professional experience spans 32 years of strategic brand and reputation management initiatives at 3M Company, located in St. Paul, Minnesota. Functional area of expertise focused on business and corporate communications; Strategic Communications, Brand Strategy, Product Commercialization, Acquisition and Divestitures, Business Integration, Crisis and Executive Communications, Brand Consulting and Training, International.
James C. Biesecker retired VP of Sales from 3M after 36 years of service. Functional experience included roles in sales, marketing, international business development and Lean Six Sigma. Business experience was primarily in 3M’s global Health Care group (Medical, Dental) located in St. Paul, MN headquarters, and 3M Health Care Asia Pacific headquarters in Shanghai, China.
With a degree in Computer Information Systems Management, Tomas possesses an invaluable base of knowledge and his work within the field is impressive. Over the past 20 years Tomas has proven himself as a leader in both web development and software engineering. First as a senior web developer for Lutheran Social Services, and then as a software engineer for both Thompson Reuters and Lighthouse Software Solutions (Senior Software Engineer) Tomas has the unique ability to apply his technical expertise across diverse markets and has excelled in his pursuits. As a current Application Engineer with the University of Minnesota’s Extension Technology Services, Tomas brings the customer input and sales information together to develop, test and implement complex software programs and applications.
In addition to his professional pursuits, Tomas is also an accomplished photographer. In his own time, Tomas continues his work with application design and development and is fluent in 3D printing design technologies that complement his passions.