SGIA Expo Atlanta 2015 – Bird’s Eye View
Just wrapped up a very busy day-1 of the show. Rick’s going to be sharing a few points of interest shortly, but here’s a nice look at the show floor from above…
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SGIA Expo 2015 Atlanta
SGIA Expo 2015 is here and The Know-It-All’s have landed in ATL. If you couldn’t make it, no worries, we’ll be doing posts from the show all week and will be sure to show you the latest and greatest. If you are here, be sure to visit our sponsors, we’ll be hanging at their booth spaces…
The Wrong Garment: You are What You Wear (for better or worse.)
In December 2012 the Houston Texans wore letterman jackets to New England. Supposedly the jackets symbolized a high school vibe of being together to win, but unfortunately it came to mean they play like they are still in High School. They were 11-1 then, the Patriots schooled them that week and they never recovered. The…
Garrett’s Platen Storage
Today’s post comes from our pal Garrett Kaule of Kaule Screen Works in Pittsburgh, PA. He has an MHM press and a great feature of it is the honeycomb platens that wick away heat and are super flat. However, they also are very expensive and you don’t want to ding them up. To keep them…
A Cheap Fix – How to Make a Scorched Shirt Go Back to White
Whether by flash or by dryer, you can easily scorch shirts, which means the top hairs are slightly burned and give it a tan cast. If it is anything but a white shirt, the shirt is ruined. Don’t waste your time trying to fix it. Very slight scorching is very hard to see unless you…
FREE FREE FREE! Free Art!
I was discussing with a friend the other day that the word “FREE” is like crack. Stuff can be useless (like crap you find at a promotional products show for example) but if free, people will flock around like flies on … You get the idea. The British Library has made available 1,023,750 images. Free inspiration.…
Stop Panicin’ and Get a Mannequin
From our pal Brett Bowden of Printed Threads: Something that I have struggled with for a long time is placement. Where is the perfect place to start a print. Is it 4 fingers from the collar? Are my hands a normal size? When struggling to decide if something is printed in a spot that will…
Mis-print Monday We’re Just Working for the Weeken
Today’s post comes from our pal Brett Bowden of Printed Threads. Everybody’s working for the weeken We have been really busy lately. It always seems like when you have no time for problems, that is when problems arise. The other night we were printing shirts after business hours when we realized a small problem.…
Web Wednesday: Congratulations Social Imprints!
Congratulations to our good friend Kevin McCracken and his crew at Social Imprints for winning the 2015 Fast Company & Mercedes Benz “Drive Your Business Forward” Contest
Too Much Focus? Making Errors by Trying to Avoid Them
I’ll do a future post on tips and tricks for avoiding errors. Here is one that reared it’s ugly head. Last week we sponsored the Pawtucket Film Festival. I focused hard on not messing up the name of one of the musicians. Her name is spelled A-L-L-Y-S-E-N which is unusual at least in the States…
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