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…
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…
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…
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 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 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…
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…
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,…
Let’s quickly examine very briefly what just happened, then the response, and then the specific responses so far in our industry. The White House just announced high tariffs around the world, including all the main garment producing countries, particularly high on China, Vietnam and Bangladesh. The only exception is Mexico, but those are presumed to…
MLB released list of most popular baseball jerseys. List below. Topping it, was Shohei Ohtani. Also smart to take that deferred payroll, he rakes it in on merch and endorsements. He has an OPS of 1.083 so his playing isn’t too shabby either, and he hasn’t even started pitching yet. the list in order…
