History
Digital Art Solutions was established in January 2000 by the brother and sister team of Craig and Nicole Mertens. Digital Art Solutions is the successor company to Smart Designs, Inc. which was founded by their father, Steve Mertens in 1992. Steve Mertens passed away in December of 1999. Craig and Nicole took over and formed Digital Art Solutions on January 1, 2000. Under the direction of Craig and Nicole, Digital Art Solutions continues to market products and services that assist with graphics production for the apparel decoration, sign making, awards and promotional products industries. In January of 2000, Digital Art Solutions formed a sales division to market apparel decorations systems on a national basis. In 2008, Digital Art Solutions introduced the patent pending Stone Stencil Rhinestone Heat Transfer System. Digital Art Solutions invented the process of creating a rhinestone heat transfers with a vinyl cutter. Since 2008, over 4,000 companies have invested in this system.
Specialties
Digital Art Solutions is the producer of the industry's leading graphics system. DAS provides a total solution backed by the ASSET Program. Artwork + Software + Support + Equipment + Training = Success. The graphics system includes production-ready clip art, design templates, fonts plus add-on graphics software for CorelDRAW, Illustrator and PhotoShop. The graphics system can be combined decoration equipment including SmartCutters, the Smart Garment Printing System and the Stone Stencil Rhinestone Heat Transfer and Rhinestone Decal System