Day 1 of the Atlantic City ISS show was fast paced, with lots of people coming by all day. I got out and saw a few cool things. The coolest thing I saw was Ross Balfour of Saati had a Seek add-on camera to his smartphone that both visually shows you infrared images and reads…
Call me old fashioned, but I still love the soft well-made Beefy T’s. They are the only real ring spun cotton 6.1 ounce t-shirt. This year and in particular at the AC ISS Hanes is celebrating 40 years since the Beefy T was born with some cool old shirts on display, some funny baby bulls ads,…
It isn’t often that our first commercial screenprinting jobs are documented. Usually we get into this business in a sort sideways move. We help somebody out or make shirts for ourselves and never really think it will turn into a business. Somehow lo and behold eventually we end up finding ourselves in the business. I…
We’ll do a longer post after the show, but check out some environmental products if you are still at the Long Beach ISS show: American Apparel has baby shirts that are organic and other organic items as well. Econscious has organic shirts, hats and my favoite of their products, really nice organic hoodies. Rutland Ink…
There are definitely some tricks to winning a t-shirt printing contest. Here are a couple: I got most excited though at some Golden Image awards and Impressions awards that we won at Mirror Image where we literally just grabbed a shirt off a production run to submit, and then we got judged by our peers that…
The other day I received these promotional Nano samples from our friends at Hanes. I was impressed, for once, to receive decorated garment samples from a manufacturer which actually incorporated tasteful design and quality printing. Well done Hanes, well done.
I love that companies now actually try and communicate what color their shirts are. What a damn concept! I use the Hanes on-line color chart at Hanesink.com and the American Apparel on-line color chart (which I will spell out– http://www.americanapparel.net/wholesaleresources/colors.asp) all the time. Hanes has their chart front and center with a tab marked “Color,” duh! American Apparel…
Every now and then during the course of a crazy day when questions are flying about garment styles and available colors and you find yourself thumbing back and forth through catalogs throwing little pieces of sticky notes between the pages to save the sections you’ll need to go back and reference… you discover that someone has…
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…
Twelve years ago in March I was labeled a “Maverick” by Counselor Magazine. Interestingly, my partner in crime here at the Ink Kitchen Tom Davenport was named as one of the 25 Hottest Movers and Shakers in the industry in April of this year by that same Counselor magazine. Here’s the Counselor piece about Tom http://www.asipublications.com/counselor/Awards/content.aspx?id=1218…
