The Ink Kitchen

At times the collective gathering of Know-It-Alls reached epic proportions on Day 2 of ISS Atlantic City

An emulsion bucket that is a bit like a teapot? Hey, I sometimes like the little innovations better than the big ones. You can pour the emulsion better–more smoothly, with less mess, and you can also do it with only one hand. Having the bucket close to the scoop coater and pouring it slowly and…

Come see us at booth 1322 at the ISS Atlantic City show today, tomorrow and Sunday. We’ll answer your screen printing questions and tell you the best places to eat in AC.

For Throwback Thursday, thoughts go to this photo of Stefan Bergill, organic man. It is baseball Spring Training time, Earth Day is coming up and there he is. The interview is as relevant as when I first did it. I have known Stefan Bergill since lived out West and he ran Patagonia’s Beneficial T’s program.…

Pierre Jamnicky owns Blue Moon Promotional in Ohio. He is also one of the founders of theshirtboard.com  He is a pretty serious dude, but with a sense of humor. He is a nice guy with a whole lot of interesting opinions, who works as hard as anybody.  He has started a slew of businesses, and one gets…

This screen is the first frame I made for the first commercial job I ever did, for Ken Brown Designs.  The image is from an ad from an old joke catalog, for some weird ass face paint. I exposed the image with a 150 watt light bulb and a pie plate reflector. Instead of a…

Hey, I know it seems like pandering to our sponsors, but like I’ve said, I was a Hanes customer long before this here blog. I was going to write an explanation of Open End (OE) vs. Ringspun yarn and I think this video is a much more fun way of doing it. It is one…

Their is a problem with relying only on spellcheck, isn’t their? Won example is this Akademiks shirt. The client was the “urban” brand Akademiks, with a stylized A-K-A-D-E-M-I-K-S as there name. In one case, the art must have been “spellchecked” and it got corrected to be spelled “academics.” Sometimes your write when your wrong, if…

My partner in crime for The Ink Kitchen is Tom Davenport. Check out the video he just made at his shop to see how t-shirts are screenprinted in the modern world. Its a cool ride through a very clean shop, a cinematic trip. See a shirt design from start to finished product at Motion Textile.

Circa 1990 we color separated this photo at my shop Mirror Image, one of the most famous photographs ever taken. It was for the publisher Fotofolio and it had to be approved by Robert Doisneau himself.  We separated and printed this job 16 times until we were satisfied with the result and when the sample…