Lisa Frank Incorporated developed two iPhone apps: one customizes pictures with Lisa Frank clip art, while the other is a coloring app for Lisa Frank coloring pages. In 2012, Urban Outfitters began selling Lisa Frank vintage merchandise, such as 1990s stickers and Trapper Keepers, on the Urban Outfitters website. Frank is the founder and CEO of Lisa Frank Incorporated. Frank founded the company in 1979 at the age of 24, and continues to lead it as of 2019.

Contents.Company history Lisa Frank, after graduating from Cranbrook Kingswood School in 1972 in, Michigan, attended the to study art. She chose this field of study because art had been a large part of her life since childhood. Her father, an art collector, had influenced her. Between her sophomore and junior years at U of A, she made a line of plastic jewelry called Sticky Fingers.

The line specialized in colorful fruit and novelty character pendants, utilizing characters in their designs such as. It sold in stores such as and.This jewelry line inspired Frank to create her first set of colorful stickers, the same stickers that launched her brand. She began Lisa Frank Incorporated in 1979, when she was only twenty-four years old. That year, the company received its first million-dollar order from Spencer Gifts. The company only produced stickers at first, featuring Frank's original characters and designs.

All of Frank's designs through 1989 were colored with an airbrush technique, the process taking nine to thirty-six hours to complete. According to a 1983 interview with Frank, the company’s stickers began with a concept, moved to pencil sketch, and then translated into an 18×24” painting before qualifying for approval. An individual sticker, on average, took a minimum of three months to realize.Lisa Frank Inc.’s success rocketed in 1987 when the company began producing school supplies featuring original designs. These designs featured “classic” Lisa Frank characters such as Panda Painter. The company believes the original characters continue to be their most popular, despite new additions over the years. Lisa Frank’s original commercial slogan, “You Gotta Have It,” debuted in the late 1980s.

Lisa Frank's line of products—folders, pencil cases, erasers, Trapper Keepers, and notebooks—were so popular, the company grossed over $60 million a year in sales during its peak in the 1990s.In 1989, the company stopped using the time-consuming, hand-painted airbrushing technique and switched to using computer software. The technological age not only changed the way the company produced products, it has also had an effect on the products they sell. According to Frank, current designs feature more complicated and intricate patterns due to the technology and the variety of products the company creates today as compared to Lisa Frank Inc.’s starting years.In 2005, Lisa Frank filed for divorce from her then-husband, James Green, who was then CEO of Lisa Frank Inc. They were the company’s only stockholders. Frank won a court settlement that year, stating Green must sell all his shares in the stock to her at a discount, according to a 1995 buy-sell agreement. This resulted in Frank resuming her position as CEO of the company. During the court trial, they found Lisa Frank Inc.

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Grossed over $1 billion in sales since 1979.In recent years, the company produces very little stationery due to the dominance of electronic communication. Lisa Frank Incorporated developed two iPhone apps: one customizes pictures with Lisa Frank clip art, while the other is a coloring app for Lisa Frank coloring pages.In 2012, began selling Lisa Frank vintage merchandise, such as 1990s stickers and Trapper Keepers, on the Urban Outfitters website.As of 2015, the base of Lisa Frank Inc. Headquarters is still, encompassing a 320,000 square foot building.

The company earned an estimated $2.3 million in annual revenue in 2012. Its branded retail stores have since shuttered and its products, which once dominated back-to-school aisles in stores across the United States, are difficult to find today. The number of employees at the 320,000 square-foot building near the dwindled from a peak of about 500 to just six. Lisa Frank in popular culture The majority of LFI’s relevance in popular culture stems from internet exposure appealing to the childhood nostalgia of women who grew up with Lisa Frank merchandise in the 1980s and 1990s.LFI’s collaboration with Urban Outfitters in 2012 has launched the renewed interest in the company from the previously mentioned demographic.

The teen and young adult targeted clothing retailer currently sells 1990s Lisa Frank merchandise on their website. According to an interview with Frank, LFI saves ten copies of every product they have ever made, and Urban Outfitters sells many reproductions of their vintage products., a website targeted towards young women in their teens and twenties, published several articles about LFI, with a dominant attitude of admiration.In 2012, LFI considered reality television collaborations.

According to an interview with The Daily, possible considerations include, and.Urban Outfitters did a video interview with Lisa Frank to promote their collaboration with her brand. The interview video featured a brief clip from a 1993 Lisa Frank commercial featuring a ten-year-old.As of 2017, there is a growing Lisa Frank nail art trend across the internet. Girls and young women emulate Lisa Frank designs onto their nails and share pictures of them across social media.Lisa Frank Inc. Was featured in fall 2012 runway show in the form of a midriff corset covered in Lisa Frank stickers.Popular artist named a song after Lisa Frank; the song リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー (translates to Lisa Frank 420 / Modern Computing) was the leading single of her 2011 album. Critiques of characters A 2010 article criticized the sexualization of recent Lisa Frank characters.

The article speculated LFI, following trends for a 'sexy' appeal in children's toys, abandoned the 'classic' Lisa Frank animal characters for sexual doll imitations.There is criticism toward human Lisa Frank characters as being detrimental, as characters' designs follow unrealistic stereotypes instead of common body types. References. Urban Outfitters. Archived from on 30 March 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2013. ^ Ruiz, Michelle. Retrieved 2013-02-14.

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In 2005, the reported that Lisa Frank—the person, who was founder and chairman of Lisa Frank the company—was looking to oust her soon-to-be ex-husband, James Green, as president and CEO. At the time, Lisa Frank Inc. Had reportedly pulled in more than $1 billion in retail sales since 1990.A, however, said the company was down to six employees and zero retail stores by 2013—and its products were nearly impossible to find elsewhere—after turmoil following its namesake’s divorce, including at least nine lawsuits between Frank, Green and/or vice president Rhonda Rowlette and her husband from 2005 to 2009.Indeed, in Tucson from online travel guide Atlas Obscura said it once offered tours, but is now abandoned. The travel site cautioned visitors to “stay on the correct side of the fence and don’t trespass.”.

“Sales declined as the original fans grew up by 2015, the factory that once employed 500 people had dwindled down to a handful of employees,” according to Atlas Obscura. “Now, the unloved building stands largely forgotten, and has been on and off the market for years.”A on commercial real estate marketplace Loopnet offers the 300,000-square-foot industrial building for $17 million, but the listing appears to be inactive.

And Lisa Frank won’t likely be able to count on Amazon as a potential buyer—the ecommerce giant eight miles away.The Lisa Frank rep said the brand has “lots of exciting things happening in the next year, but nothing we are officially announcing yet,” and declined to comment on whether it is angling for a comeback.