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Farm Aid 2014 Here We Come

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…

Discharge Ink – Do It Right and Don’t Poison Yourself and Your Workers

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…

El aeropuerto más amigable del mundo.

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…

Replacement

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…

World’s Friendliest Airport

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…

TBT – Welded

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…

Web Wednesday: This Is Screen Printing, We Are Screen Printers

Rose colored glasses, but a great video anyway.

Web Wednesday: Daffy Dan

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…

Quick Turn to Ferguson

Two things about this photo: 1. Uber damn rush job 2. Screenprinter involved in current events directly Rush: I got a call on my cell from Amnesty International at about 1:30PM to see if we could get shirts to Missouri by the next morning. I checked that we could push some things and just work…

Misdirected Monday, the Sox Stink

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.”…

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