The Ink Kitchen

Wearables, a traditional print publication by ASI, is also available in digital format.  Good stuff for PPD’s and decorators alike.  They recently featured one of our prints in a piece highlighting v-necks…  

I majored in Philosophy and Religion in college. I guess I am drawn to the philosophical underpinnings of what people do. Someone once told me about the concept of “love of work” that Germans have and used some expression with the German word for work “Arbeit.” I never have found where that exact expression comes…

Accurate print positioning is as critical as perfect halftone execution (maybe more so) when it comes to achieving desired results.  This order was returned a couple of years ago due to incorrect (off-center) positioning.  It may not seem like a big deal, but to a designer, this is highly critical.  It was a simple slip…

Al hablar de ilustración, especialmente sobre prendas de vestir , hay dos cosas que realmente separa la elite de todos los demás: composición y ejecución. A principios de los 2000 tuve el privilegio de trabajar con alguien que es un maestro en las dos! Mike Thompson. Mike dirigió la división de la camiseta de Ecko…

As our previous posts (Web Wednesday–Mike Thompson, How to Illustrate for Shirts) indicate, Mike T is the master of t-shirt illustration. Here are two more from his canon: Jam Master Jay – great use of the black shirt to blend the illustration into the background. Tupac – Limited color palette but still getting the job…

Mike T is not just a great artist, he has done some of the most exemplary illustrations for t-shirts that I have ever seen. This print of Biggie is also one of our best screenprints, but it all started with great artwork. The piece is so good that a marketing company put this in Digital…

In 1995 (I think, maybe earlier) we worked with Rykodisc to do a promotional shirt for a re-release of the Frank Zappa album “Lumpy Gravy.” On the cover of Lumpy Gravy Frank Zappa is wearing a shirt that is printed with the simple lettering “PIPCO.”   We were asked to reproduce the shirt as exactly…

When it comes to illustration especially on wearables, there are two things that truly separate the elite from everyone else–composition and execution. In the early 2000’s I had the privilege of working with someone who is a master at both, Mike Thompson. Mike headed up the tee shirt division of Ecko Unlimited and I was…

I love custom packaging projects for a few reasons: It’s a source of revenue that does not require huge capital investment Each project is a unique challenge I love to see the creativity inspired within our team when handling such challenges Today we did a packaging project on a self promo piece which is part…

All misprints are not created equal. The lovely and talented Vivian Shibata, who runs the Amnesty International merchandise program, took a shirt with a slight defect and turned it into an ensemble at the recent AI Human Rights Conference. A few deft cuts and some stitching and she turned a regular crewneck shirt into her…