This isn’t about screen printing, but I can’t help but comment.
The earthquake in Chile is nearly incomprehensible.
Santiago, Chile has extensive damage. Santiago is three hundred miles from the epicenter of the quake. That is like a quake in Philadelphia causing extensive damage in Boston. I can’t fathom that.
There are an estimated 500,000 homes in ruins. [...]

I’m thinking about the Saints this morning. I’m thinking about incredible smart and bold coaching by Sean Payton.  I thinking about clutch QB Drew Brees (32 of 39 and one was a spike.) Watch some film of Doug Flutie and Drew Brees and tell me a quarterback has to be tall. I”m thinking of a [...]

This post isn’t going to have illustration. There are many many possible illustrations for this post, but there is no reason to hurt anyone’s feelings.
Do you want a bad looking t-shirt? Here are a few pointers:
1. Just design whatever you want and don’t think about what kind of shirt it is going on. It looks [...]

Rush job.
No surprise there, we do rush jobs all the time. However, usually not to go to life and death situations. We got asked on the weekend to source vests for Doctors to wear for Partners in Health in Haiti. Their shirts were getting dirty and better to have a vest and then they could [...]

I just returned on a red-eye from selling our contract printing at the PPAI show in Las Vegas. I was awakened from sleeping this afternoon by a call from the mother of a classmate of one of my kids. She was trying to find 500 orange t-shirts for doctors to wear in Haiti, they will [...]

I would rather be writing about the Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa and all that, than thinking about nylon.
We have always avoided printing on nylon, but I’m learning to embrace it. Nylon shrinks when you heat it and ink doesn’t really want to adhere to it and nobody technical gives you any consistent information, other [...]

I just attended (and volunteered at) the 24th Farm Aid concert. This year was in St. Louis, MO. Farm Aid raises money to help family farmers.
One tool in that battle apparently is the t-shirt.
Rhonda Perry of the Missouri Rural Crisis Center gave a powerful speech at the press conference before the show. She thanked the [...]

American Apparel has been a leader in trying to get meaningful immigration reform. I have been in their facility many times and nearly always unannounced, and I can tell you that they treat people well there. They work hard there, but the working conditions are good.
I think that the Mark Twain line, “Few things are [...]

Smart partners that are savvy about getting things done are truly amazing. Anvil and Hanes were that today.
Yesterday at 6PM we realized that we didn’t have enough tags to finish tagging some organic t-shirts that Anvil so generously donated to Farm Aid. I called Anvil and they had them printed and overnighted by UPS in [...]

Today I am too hot and its too humid to put a big effort into the blog. Just kidding. Well not really, it is very hot and humid here in Rhode Island today. Nothing like New Orleans or places, but hot enough.
Workers don’t like the heat and the humidity and neither do screens. I [...]