The Ink Kitchen

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    

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…

Several sources today say that American Apparel has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. This does not affect screen print shops, don’t get your (skimpy American Apparel) panties in a bunch over it. Without giving it much thought I can think of at least five large companies in our industry that have been through Chapter 11.…

These knuckleheads videotaped their fishing encounter with a weird looking but not rare sea creature called an ocean sunfish. The video of them declaring “it’s a tuna bro” and thinking it was some sort of sea monster went viral. They are trying to capitalize on their Andy Warhol 15 minutes of fame (go look up…

The Daft Punk Official Merchandise site created these bitchin’ vintage-esque posters for each item in the store…

When you are printing millions of shirts annually it doesn’t matter how tight QC is, some mis-prints will slip through the cracks.  Typically we are shipping to a distribution center where additional QC inspections are performed and any mis-prints are be caught, and yet, some mis-prints will still slip through.  Surely we’ve all noticed this browsing printed…

I”m on shaky ground here and I might lose half of our readership by posting this. Most of the country hates the Patriots, but I’m admitting here that I’m a huge Patriots fan and huge Tom Brady fan. There is a new commercial out and I”m not really a fan of the product and it…

It isn’t often that you know your shirts will be in the hands of folks like legends Willie Nelson and Neil Young. We saw Willie wearing his, which I’m sure would be a thrill to any t-shirt printer. I’ve had some folks ask where they can buy the shirts featured in the Monday post on…

I was stoked that the road back from Farm Aid passes right by Jakprints and I got to see my buds the owners Jacob and Dameon and my other buds working there LT and Jeff and to talk shop and as always to have a good time. My take on Jakprints is that two skatepunks…

There is  Willie Nelson (with Imagine Dragons) at Farm Aid 2015 wearing a shirt we designed and printed at my shop Mirror Image. It is always a thrill to see your handiwork up on the big stage and broadcast around the globe. Folks at my shop including Pam, Brian, KC, Ruth, Aimee, Ray and all…