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…
Someone was asking me this week about the use of a discharge ink as an underbase. Discharge ink is an ink that basically neutralizes the dye in a shirt instead of printing over the dye. So with discharge ink you don’t need two prints (usually white and then the color) and so it gets a…
Desafortunadamente vivo en la que es una de las ciudades menos acogedoras, Boston, y su aeropuerto (Logan) está en mi lista de los diez peores del mundo. Tratan a todos como criminales en potencia y a partir de ahí todo se viene abajo. No tiene que ser así. El aeropuerto de Munich alberga lugares para…
One good thing about owning a t-shirt printing company is that once in awhile you can just print something you just feel like printing. (Some days it seems like the only good thing…) I saw these shirts online in a photo when the Replacements played last year after a long hiatus. I didn’t see the…
I live in what unfortunately is one of the unfriendliest towns in the world Boston and the airport (Logan) definitely makes my top ten for worst airports. They seem to treat everyone as a good-for-nothing criminal and it goes downhill from there. It doesn’t have to be that way.The Munich airport has places to work…
Our pal and co-conspirator KC Hruby: “Yesterday as I was dropping Rick off at his mechanic’s (The Diesel Ninja) garage I noticed one of the techs wearing an old and familiar tee shirt. The “Big rhino weld” tee which was the first shirt I developed when I started at Ecko in 2000. This was my…
Rose colored glasses, but a great video anyway.
A couple of years ago while trolling the streets of Cleveland with my buddy Jacob Edwards, co-founder/co-owner of Jakprints, we came across a typical-to-Cleveland brick building with a giant sign reading “Daffy Dan’s Custom Screenprinting” complete with a badass cutout caricature of Dan himself! “What’s that???” I said aloud. “Oh, that’s Daffy Dan, he’s been…
