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Avoid Scams

Stahls sent out a notice today warning people to be careful with emails. First to note is that scams impersonating your bank, suppliers or customers are rarely meaning that entity is compromised. It usually means some thief is just impersonating them and has nothing to do with them. The advice in the Stahls email is…

Want to Start a T-Shirt Brand? Essential Tips for Branding, Marketing & Social Media Success

  Launching a t-shirt business can be an exciting journey, but it’s also one filled with challenges, especially when it comes to marketing and branding. If you’ve ever wondered how to turn your passion for printing into a thriving brand, this guide is for you. Drawing from expert insights shared by Latonia “Tee” Samuel of…

Streamlining Success in the T-Shirt Business: How AI Can Transform Your Shop

  Running a T-shirt business is no small feat. From managing customer relationships and quotes to designing artwork and handling marketing, the workload can quickly become overwhelming. Thankfully, advances in technology—especially artificial intelligence (AI)—are providing powerful tools that help shop owners work smarter, not harder. In this article based on a ShopTalk at Impressions Fort…

FFF: Vibe Coding

Vibe coding (silly name) refers to a growing approach where developers use AI tools to generate code based on natural language descriptions. We have been doing this in previous weeks, but it has a name, and really anyone can try it. Instead of writing every line manually, developers describe what they want their software to…

MHM Moves Forward

At the FESPA in Berlin we had a chance to catch up with the new owner of MHM Herbert Ritzer. It was refreshing to see a company being led by someone passionate about the company rather than out to extract every last penny out of the company and the future be damned. Herbert started with…

Fashion Forward Friday: Reveal Prints (Not AI this week)

Something different this week This week, I posted a few experimental prints on Instagram and Facebook (@nototriousrandd) and wanted to pull back the curtain a bit. These weren’t just surface-level graphics—they were reveal prints, engineered to transform under specific triggers: light, heat, and UV. I didn’t dive into new AI techniques this week (thanks for…

MLB Whiffs Again

MLB still apparently can’t have normal human beings observe their new uni’s before releasing them. The absolutely dreadful Florida Marlins (last place in their division and with a wretched roster) released their new City Connect uniforms. After the debacle of Texas hats that read more like boobs in Spanish check this out:  

Gildan Announces First Quarter Results

Gildan announced its first quarter results and they are about the same as expected and about the same as last year for the first quarter. You can read the report yourself here. Most interesting is probably that there isn’t much of interest in the report. Despite the current chaos of the current US administration’s shifting…

FFF: Working from customer photos of old prints

Sometimes we get asked to recreate graphics from customer photos of old prints. In this project, I challenged ChatGPT with a specific request: to recreate a floral and bird graphic from a T-shirt with complete fidelity. No stylistic interpretation, no added flair, and no trace of the garment itself — just the isolated artwork, recreated with…

FFF: Proofreading at the Speed of Sight

Proofreading at the Speed of Sight: AI could Reinvent Visual Spellchecking Even the most brilliant creative can get torpedoed by one rogue letter. A misspelled headline, a transposed product name, a flyer where “Mother’s Day” becomes “Mothers Day” with no apostrophe. That’s where intelligent image proofreading steps in. Disclaimer – it is not 100% Accurate,…

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