Color Palette: Choose your colors wisely when making a screen printed t-shirt that is meant to look like it was printed decades ago. We have the capability of screen printing amazingly bright inks these days but that wasn’t as easy way back when. Also, colors simply fade over time. So I’d recommend using a color palette […]
Most of our business involves screen printing custom t-shirts and apparel for customers. But we love collaborating with organizations who think outside the box. We’ve screen printed everything from tiles to headbands and enjoy new projects. So we think it’s great that Washington State University is expanding beyond the typical collegiate merchandise to help alumni […]
Distressing: One of the most effective ways to make your screen printed t-shirt look like it’s been around (and heavily used) for years is to distress the image itself. You can do this in the design itself or by using special crackling ink! This t-shirt features big type and distressed ink to get its vintage feel […]
Some might scoff at the idea of a paper “boy” in his 90’s; we think there’s a lot to learn. Newt Wallace has been delivering papers to the same blocks in Winters, California since 1947. His recipe for newspaper delivery success is the same as ours for custom screen printed t-shirts: an impressive work ethic […]
The ladies of the Kappa Delta sorority at St Louis University, Missouri, have provided reassurance and a shoulder to lean on across the SLU campus since back in 1992. Striving to recruit further members for their supportive team, the girls asked us to print these two great screen printed t-shirts for them. The Kappa Deltas […]
This is the third in a series of six posts devoted to the array of techniques used to create a beautiful custom screen printed t-shirt that looks vintage. Type and Fonts: Browse old packaging when making your vintage design for screen printing. Back in the day words were much more prevalent than images so use simple, […]
There’s a great article in The New York Times about the Gonzaga basketball program’s ascent from perennial scrappy overachievers to national champion contenders. The lessons about clear visioning, hard work, and defying expectations can be applied to a basketball program, a screen printing business, or any other type of organization. It’s clear that the success […]
This is the second in a series of six posts devoted to the array of techniques used to create a beautiful custom screen printed t-shirt that looks vintage. Graphics: Make sure the design itself looks like it could be from the good old days. You can have the greatest vintage textures in the world but if […]
