HanesBrands is purchasing Knights Apparel, a company which mostly serves the college bookstore market. It sounds like a good deal for HanesBrands and I can’t see how it will have any effect on the average screen printer or embroidery company. You can read about it in the Wall Street Journal or here is the HanesBrands press release…
Our customer had already paid to have this logo digitized and insisted that we use their DST file. We rarely except DST files from our customers. This is why… Needless to say, we did not proceed with production, opting instead to digitize in-house and provide our customer with a quality product to meet their expectation. When…
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…
Reported in the Boston Herald is that there is a guy selling hockey related shirts, a brand he calls Stinky Socks. If you play hockey, all your stuff usually stinks. You sweat, you put your gear in a bag, and typically you don’t wash it often enough. Hence the hockey sticks logo with the name “Stinkysocks.”…
My wife Pam (social media director of the Ink Kitchen!) and I are going to work with a Polish friend of ours who is part of an international group of volunteers that is putting on an awesome event in the country of Georgia. It is in a location which shares borders with Armenia and Azerbaijan, a…
For all of the goofy print placements that we do it is a rare occasion that the finished design is truly something awesome. I mean to say that a stupid piece of “art” or a bad corporate logo placed in a funky position on the garment does not make for a great finished piece. This…
Brands of the World has been an invaluable resource for me for many years. Ever been desperate for a specific brand logo in vector format that for some reason your customer just can’t get their hands on (after all the Coca-Cola logo is only available in lo-res jpg format) and yet they still want the print to look perfect and…
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…
A mediados y finales de los 90, la alta densidad y las impresiones dimensionales era lo que se llevaba. Ahora tenemos otra manera de imprimir y de trabajar y nos manejamos como pez en el agua. Antes, estaba constantemente por todas partes buscando inspiración para texturas y patrones que trabajar en una impresión dimensional. Parte…
You never know where inspiration will come from! Back in the mid to late 90’s, high density and dimensional printing was all the rage. We now had another print dimension to work with and I took to it like a duck to water. I was constantly looking for textures and patterns everywhere I went as inspiration…
