We did the merch for Farm Aid 2014 and arrived early and counted it all in. Hats off to Ruth and Carlos and the Mirror Image staff as a couple thousand items and the counts were off by less then 5 total pieces. A couple of my favorite people with a couple of my favorite…
The creative firm CCL branding did this logo for the One Caucasus cultural festival. Here is their thought process as relayed to me by my pal David Verga of CCL. “Knowing the goal of the festival was to foster unity and understanding between differing cultures, we began our design process by researching the histories of…
Hey, last week I was raving about the super cool Munich airport where you can chill out, sleep, or work and the space is made for it and the attitude is right. I got quite a few comments and so I though I would point folks to “Sleepinginairports.net” which, in addition to being a great…
About to hit the road to run the merch at Farm Aid 2014 in Raleigh. Farm Aid is a concert with Willie Nelson, Dave Matthews, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp playing every year for the benefit of saving family farms. They get some help from other musicians (Jack White this year should be a must…
One good thing about owning a t-shirt printing company is that once in awhile you can just print something you just feel like printing. (Some days it seems like the only good thing…) I saw these shirts online in a photo when the Replacements played last year after a long hiatus. I didn’t see the…
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…
Rose colored glasses, but a great video anyway.
A couple of years ago while trolling the streets of Cleveland with my buddy Jacob Edwards, co-founder/co-owner of Jakprints, we came across a typical-to-Cleveland brick building with a giant sign reading “Daffy Dan’s Custom Screenprinting” complete with a badass cutout caricature of Dan himself! “What’s that???” I said aloud. “Oh, that’s Daffy Dan, he’s been…
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.”…
