Our pal and co-conspirator KC Hruby: “Yesterday as I was dropping Rick off at his mechanic’s (The Diesel Ninja) garage I noticed one of the techs wearing an old and familiar tee shirt. The “Big rhino weld” tee which was the first shirt I developed when I started at Ecko in 2000. This was my…
Two things about this photo: 1. Uber damn rush job 2. Screenprinter involved in current events directly Rush: I got a call on my cell from Amnesty International at about 1:30PM to see if we could get shirts to Missouri by the next morning. I checked that we could push some things and just work…
Reported in the Boston Herald is that there is a guy selling hockey related shirts, a brand he calls Stinky Socks. If you play hockey, all your stuff usually stinks. You sweat, you put your gear in a bag, and typically you don’t wash it often enough. Hence the hockey sticks logo with the name “Stinkysocks.”…
My wife Pam (social media director of the Ink Kitchen!) and I are going to work with a Polish friend of ours who is part of an international group of volunteers that is putting on an awesome event in the country of Georgia. It is in a location which shares borders with Armenia and Azerbaijan, a…
My good pal Carl Williams who works for the ACLU showed me this clever site. I’ve seen many shirts about free speech and the U.S. Constitution, but these Fourth Amendment garments take the cake, they are very creative expressions about unreasonable search and seizure. AMENDMENT IV The right of the people to be secure in…
Our shop and a friend’s shop were all ready to print shirts of the fight poster design for the upcoming Floyd Mayweather-Marcos Maidana boxing match and were told somewhat abruptly that the job had been cancelled by the client. We didn’t really know what had happened until we spotted this article about a tweet heard round the creative world…
For this Throwback Thursday I’m sharing a video a shop made a few years ago. This is painful to watch. It is also hilarious, and I think nearly every line in it I have actually heard, and many of the lines I have heard over and over. There are a bunch of swears, don’t watch if…
With the proliferation of fashionable garments, more and more customers that would have manufactured their own garments merely relabel an existing garment. I got a call today from an old friend in the business today and he said, “I figured my cost is $.70, but I know they won’t pay that!” Little tiny print unfortunately…
My review of the music video “Don’t You Start:” Glad to see ear protection while reclaiming, but in the printing scene maybe I would have had the screen a little more off contact using a couple cardboard tabs… I remember an old Letterman bit where he had an actual welder come on the show and…
I love that companies now actually try and communicate what color their shirts are. What a damn concept! I use the Hanes on-line color chart at Hanesink.com and the American Apparel on-line color chart (which I will spell out– http://www.americanapparel.net/wholesaleresources/colors.asp) all the time. Hanes has their chart front and center with a tab marked “Color,” duh! American Apparel…
