Quote of February
In astounding news, this quote of the month is being published during its corresponding month, not after. “299 million could be completely ignorant or even against you and you could still go platinum.”
Evan Webster INK / Creative Screen Printing
Would you want YOU as a customer?
Customer service is important to us. We want the companies we buy from to have friendly return policies, (native) English speaking support staff and satisfaction guarantees (“is that valid for the lifetime of the product or my life time?”). More than ever, I would argue, both the customer and bussineses know that the customer’s satisfaction is […]
Custom T-Shirt Diary 27: Jump for Joy
One of the favorite parts of my job is meeting all of the people, businesses and organizations that need t-shirts printed. The wide range of customers keeps me on my toes and always talking with different people, which I love. A few months ago I printed some t-shirts for a fellow small-business owner, Tina, who […]
T-Shirt Travels Review – 4: T-shirts and Eskimos
The fourth chapter is our introduction to China. Fittingly, it is here we learn more about cotton processing. We are reminded that nothing is as simple as it seems (why do we still need reminding about this? – it’s always true). There are many steps taken between harvesting raw cotton and making t-shirts. There are […]
Custom T-Shirt Diary 26: Daniel's Trumpet
Usually it’s not, but sometimes screen printing is easy. When my cousin Daniel had his bar mitzvah, I was still trying out a lot of new screen printing techniques. I wanted to make him a custom sweatshirt to celebrate his new stage of life. I decided to screen print a simple image of a trumpet […]
T-Shirt Travels Review – 3: Tees and Dream Teams
This chapter is summed up by a single sentence, “The Lubbock [West Texas] area benefits from a highly symbiotic and virtuous circle relationship between farmers, private companies, universities and the US government.” (26) It’s fair to say that is a dream team to have on your side. In addition the farmer’s were an extremely tight-knit […]
A Screen Print I Like – Salt and Pepper, London
I find myself being exposed to really cool work of other artists around the world while on the internet for work or just personal interests. I’m going to try to be better about sharing the neat stuff I come across. None of these posts are paid for or any sort of official endorsement. This is […]
T-Shirt Travels Review – 2: Cotton, T-Shirts and Technology
This chapter is an eye-opening history of American cotton – and its connection to t-shirts. One recurring theme is that West Texas didn’t start growing cotton until well after the rest of Texas. This actually gave West Texas an advantage. They didn’t have costs sunk in outdated “technology” such as donkeys (instead of tractors) and […]
Snowed In
We might be snowed in – but we’re still printing like the crazy polar bears that we are. Haven’t heard of the polar bears with opposable thumbs that own screen printing presses? Well, they exist – do some research.
Quote of January
“Decisions of Progress”. This month’s quote of the month was very tough to decide on. Not for lack of options. Early in January I read “Rework” Jason Friend & David Heinemeier Hansson. There are too many great quotes so I just chose one relatively arbitrarily to share. I recommend the book. The rest of the […]