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Sellin’ Shirts for Good

Artist Lawrence Cumbo was asked by Dr. John to take a photo in 1998 in New Orleans that would be a tip of the hat to the famous Art Kane photo “A Great Day in Harlem.” Sixty-three Louisiana artists were assembled on Louis Armstrong’s birthday in Armstrong Park. The photo included New Orleans great Allen Toussaint…

Web Wednesday – The Ink Kitchen Meets Kitchen Ink

Down on Frenchman Street in New Orleans on a Tuesday night which was turning into Wednesday morning I met Rosin, selling her “Kitchen Ink” wares at a table. She literally screens on the floor in her kitchen, air dries her ink, and has a total DIY operation going. A few photos of her designs and…

Inferno Screen Printing in New Orleans

I’m still in New Orleans and I love meeting other screen printers when I’m traveling. Today I hung out with Brandon from Inferno Screen Printing. His shop does a lot of cool work and a lot of discharge prints for the music industry. Nothing more fun than talking shop with somebody else who likes screen…

NOLA Jazz Fest T-Shirt Gallery

Music festivals are a great place to see all kinds of t-shirts. One takeaway from this year’s Jazz Fest is that simple one to three color prints and distressed prints really are what people are wearing now. Practically the only elaborate multi-color prints we saw were the Jazz Fest shirts. And the only people wearing the current year’s…

Domingo Gigante: Tinta del silicón

Te guste o no, la impresión con tinta de silicona va a encontrar un espacio en tu caja de herramientas. Las ventajas son: – es muy elástica – tiene una migración cero en poliésters – es más barato que contratar un seguro cuando necesitas imprimir sobre una chaqueta elástica de 150$ Los contras son: –…

Happy Jazz Fest Y’All

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is one of the best music and food events in the world. Also tshirt heaven. We start with memorial shirts and then will share some from the literally hundreds of thousands of shirts to be seen here.

Carts, Carts, Carts and More Carts

Tom posted that he has literally hundreds of carts in his shop and he means hundreds. I posted that I waited way too long to make more carts. Here is another cart story. My friend’s shop is in a poor part of town and there are lots of industrious types, so to speak, as in…

Web Wednesday: Is it Possible To Touch Color?

Kudos to Rip Curl for doing something truly innovative and important.  This should inspire ideas for all of us decorators…

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