A Polish designer, Kamil Piatkowski, has created a bottle design called Regular Beer that uses screen printing to elegantly save on the mental and physical energy used to print bottle labels. The post on psfk combines what is of interest to many readers of this blog, printing and beer, not necessarily in that order…
Being a contract printer (ASI supplier) for ASI distributors and other promotional product “professionals” is a love/hate relationship if ever there was one. When the relationship goes well it is a great cooperative arrangement and the distributor (in their white hat of course emblazoned with their clever name and logo) is our financier, our great…
Sorry in advance to all of my friends from Chicago. I am enjoying your very windy city, but today I came across quite a sight walking past the Under Armour store downtown. It was the biggest t-shirt I’ve ever seen and it was emblazoned with a Chicago arc text and Cubs logo. On account of content, physique,…
I’ll do a full post on this project at a later date, but I thought it worth mentioning that these screens, squeegees, and inks ain’t just for printing t-shirts…
I can’t show it, but we warped a print last week and have to set up the job again today to print one piece for a good customer that has to have this small order perfect. We put too much adhesive on the platen and warped the print when we yanked it off the press. Those…
Checkout Wearables Digital April/May 2015 Issue. In addition to the regular Ink Kitchen column, this issue includes a nice piece called “Building a Better T-Shirt”, complete with some examples from Mirror Image and Motion Textile.
I guess if some folks can make more money selling a t-shirt by signing it, why not also by shooting holes in them… William S. Burroughs was a beat generation writer of such classics as Naked Lunch and The Soft Machine. In this video clip he, while well over 80 years old, plugs some of his t-shirts…
Here is my third post, some final refections as the busy trade show season is mostly over. The biggest trends of the past ten years have been related to digital printing and to concerns about the effects of printing and garments on the environment. Developments in the environmental realm seem to have slowed down, but still…
“Digitizing” the presses has been on my projects list for years now. It’s quite the undertaking but once completed will allow us to digitally display the full and accurate range of on-press screen and platen movement in relation to each other and in relation to screen profile and artboard (these components we have already digitized). This is a big deal for us…
I recently revived an old technique while doing some design development work: Faux Chenille Appliqué. Our friend Brian Lessard at Rutland taught us this technique years ago and it really holds up in terms of delivering WOW! factor while still remaining tasteful.. – We started with a killer hoody from Independent Trading Co. – Working from a vintage Pepsi…
