The Ink Kitchen

I love making fun of big corporations, so its nice to see that parody still can exist in our system. Here’s an article saying that t-shirts saying Zombies Eat Flesh that look like Subway Eat Fresh might have some legal ground to stand on.  

I have a small collection of personal shirts which I have retired from my active wardrobe but have retained for nostalgic purposes.  This “The Smiths – Hatful of Hollow” tee is my favorite.  It was given to me as a hand-me-down Christmas gift in 1992 by my big sister’s ex-boyfriend.  He had purchased the shirt in…

I came across this blog post from Adam Nash’s blog today.  The post dates back to 2010 but is no less relevant today.  As a contract printer in Northern California we depend very much on tech companies and young startups understanding “why t-shirts matter”.

All too often a customer insists that their image on their shirts should match their billboards, signs, posters, table tents, magazine adverts, etc. Farm Aid and the artist for their logo Kathy Keller did a great job of creating a logo, but having variations for web, poster, tickets, and importantly for us shirts. Putting a…

We’re very cautious to avoid “bleeding” and “dye-migration” when it comes to printing 100% poly and poly-blend fabrics.  We use poly white plus a barrier gray when under-basing 100% poly and we use poly white plus a standard low-bleed white when under-basing blends.  We drop our oven temp and cure time, and we are careful not…

Inspiring press conference by Farm Aid, impressive music, and some good merch sales happening for a good cause. This year in Raleigh, NC, happening today.

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…