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Mixed Media Printing
Culture and Trends

Mixed Media Printing

Using a variety of different techniques on one garment is becoming more and more popular. People are always seeking new ways to make their shirts look unique, and using mixed media is a fun and creative option. Dawaud from Big Printing has done his fair share of experimentation: From embroidery and appliqué, to remixing fabrics. We speak to him today about what makes an effective mixed media design and how you can achieve one too.

Streamline Your Business with Better Tech
Tech and Innovation

Streamline Your Business with Better Tech

Zachary Traxler is a big advocate for using technology to improve the way he runs his business. Over his career, he’s discovered so many helpful technological tools that can revolutionize the way you work — saving time, lowering costs, and boosting efficiency. Today, he gives us a rundown of his favorite pieces of technology that could help your business too.

Fashion for the Streets of New York
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Fashion for the Streets of New York

Growing up in New York, DJ Kinslow has always been surrounded by eclectic fashion statements, inspiring him to kickstart his current apparel business. New York culture and aesthetics have always fed into his practice, allowing him to distinguish what works for a diverse metropolitan city and what appeals to the potential clients around him. In this interview, DJ gives us an insight into the New York fashion scene and how he creates with his city in mind.

How to Scale Your Business
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How to Scale Your Business

Scott Valancy is a long-time player in the printing industry and is currently taking his company, Tee Shirt Central, into its sixteenth year. Coming from a business background, Scott has both the know-how and the experience of running a well-oiled ship. We speak to him about his best advice for growing a decorating business, and how to keep up with the fast-paced industry.

Dan Strickland: A Case for DTG Printing
Tech and Innovation

Dan Strickland: A Case for DTG Printing

When Dan Strickland invested in his Kornit Vulcan Direct To Garmet printer, he found a steady increase in production efficiency at his print shop, Garment Gear. We chat to him about some of the benefits of Direct-to-Garment printing and the ways tech could help others in the industry.

The Election T-shirt
Culture and Trends

The Election T-shirt

We speak to industry veteran, Anthony Corsano about the phenomenon of the election T-shirt. Over his years in the business, he’s seen a whole host of different campaign designs come through for county, state, and even presidential elections. Here he is giving his two cents on the printing and power of the election tee.

Creating Sustainable Business Practices
Tech and Innovation

Creating Sustainable Business Practices

Mitch Heiman runs Perrin Resort and Collegiate Apparel, a company that prints up to 40,000 shirts a day in a warehouse of approximately 250,000 square feet. Because of the size of his company, his footprint is always at the forefront of Mitch’s mind. Sustainability can seem like a large task to tackle when you’ve got to manage a smooth operation in your print shop, but Mitch is confident that steps towards sustainability can be rather simple.

Comparing Contract vs. Retail Printing
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Comparing Contract vs. Retail Printing

Most decorators will be familiar with this dilemma: do I go for contract printing or retail printing? Is it beneficial to do both or just specialize in one? Marian Hinebauch spent many years doing just contract printing but is now on a journey towards more and more retail projects. Today, she gives us a rundown of what she believes is the best, worst and most enjoyable aspects of each one.

Dan Strickland: Printing for Musicians
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Dan Strickland: Printing for Musicians

Dan Strickland has had his fair share of musical clients. Over the last few years, the co-founder of Garment Gear has worked with approximately 25 bands and artists to help them print T-shirts for their tours. We caught up with him to hear all about what it’s like, the challenges of tour deadlines, and what advice he would give to people wanting to try their hand at printing for tours.

Keeping Up With Fashion Trends
Tech and Innovation

Keeping Up With Fashion Trends

Every year, we see new fashion trends blossom across the screen printing industry. As a decorator, adapting to this ebb and flow of constantly changing trends can be challenging. Mitch Heiman of Perrin Inc., however, was able to rise to the recent trend of simple designs and basics. He offers us some advice on how we can approach up-and-coming fashion trends, and how to match your processes to make trends easier to handle.

Printing for Good
Culture and Trends

Printing for Good

As a child of parents who ran non-profits, Zach Traxler from Traxler Printing has always felt a natural inclination to do good. More often than not, Zach uses his print shop to help nonprofits, give away free shirts for good causes, and find new ways to bring the community together. Today, we talk to Zach who is happy to share his experiences and perspectives on printing for good.

Building a Relationship with Your Employees
Business Tips

Building a Relationship with Your Employees

The screen printing business is not always the most glamorous. As Anthony Corsano has found, sometimes this can make it challenging to attract and engage new and existing employees. However, there are many ways we can strengthen the relationship with shop staff from a more empathetic approach.

Danny Gruninger on Developing the Inks of the Future
Tech and Innovation

Danny Gruninger on Developing the Inks of the Future

Danny Gruninger is the Willy Wonka of screen-printing. From his Colorado-based studio, Denver Print House, the self-proclaimed 'mad scientist' develops inks at the cutting-edge of the industry. From thermo-activated to color-changing and even bacon scented inks, he's not afraid to take a leap into the unknown in order to offer his clients products no one else can.

How To Print on Fleece Fabrics
Tech and Innovation

How To Print on Fleece Fabrics

Lon Winters shares his advice on printing with fleece for the first time

Predictions in 2019 Trends with Lon Winters
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Predictions in 2019 Trends with Lon Winters

Master screen-printer Lon Winters takes us through his predictions for 2019

MNKR: For The Love Of Print
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MNKR: For The Love Of Print

Matt Fellows has been making his own tee shirt designs and managing his business for over 15 years. He creates wearable art both in the form of tees and tattoos. We spent the day with him at his LA Artist's loft to talk to him about what it means to be your own boss, finding inspiration from everyday life, and what makes this industry so appealing.

Adjusting to the Age of Amazon
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Adjusting to the Age of Amazon

Building and maintaining a business in the age of Amazon can be intimidating. We turned to printwear pioneer Mark Coudray to get his top tips for navigating the rapidly evolving eCommerce landscape.

How To Build Your Brand
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How To Build Your Brand

Following a successful few years of expansion across the country, Steve gives us some tips on how to build your brand.

Just Design
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Just Design

Lennie Mowris is a passionate advocate for social justice design, working for her own design studio as well as a community of charities and non-profits in Atlanta. A self-proclaimed 'button-pusher', she makes T-shirts that empower people to start conversations. We spoke to her about making politically charged work in divided times and how T-shirts can be a force for social good.

The world's most expensive band T-shirts
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The world's most expensive band T-shirts

Fuelled by nostalgia and a passionate collectors market, these sweat-soaked pieces of music history have been commanding sky-high prices at auction.

A Short History of Political T-Shirts
Culture and Trends

A Short History of Political T-Shirts

From 'Black Lives Matter' to 'Me Too' and 'Bern Baby Bern', it seems no political movement is complete without its own slogan T-shirt these days. But how did we become a generation so at ease with brandishing our beliefs across our chests?

Origin Stories
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Origin Stories

Whilst a parent's garage is a popular starting place for many a decorator, there are plenty of T-shirt printers and designers that have rather more unusual origin stories. So we hunted down some of the more unexpected…

Screens, prints and rock'n'roll
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Screens, prints and rock'n'roll

Andy Anderson is one of the industry's most humble legends. A multi-award winning printer, his studio helped pioneer four-color process work and he's printed for some of the biggest names in the music industry.

Mad Specials Gallery
Tech and Innovation

Mad Specials Gallery

Milosje de Groot of the Mad Specials shop is a third generation screen printer from Amsterdam. While de Groot won't reveal just how he creates his effects, he hopes that sharing them will inspire others to explore new techniques of their own.

Dave Gardner: Master of a truly American art form
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Dave Gardner: Master of a truly American art form

The idea of somebody seeing something you've created and saying, 'I want that', there's no juice like that

Justin Lawrence: On Building a Subscription Based Company
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Justin Lawrence: On Building a Subscription Based Company

“Treat people with kindness and integrity. Try to stay humble, and when you mess up - own it.

How T-shirts Became High Fashion
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How T-shirts Became High Fashion

This trend shows no sign of slowing down, with streetwear designer Virgil Abloh appointed an artistic director of Louis Vuitton, and Ralph Lauren collaborating with iconic streetwear brand Palace. Luxury brands have even started following streetwear brand's operating model - creating one-off items and "drops" to raise the appeal of traditionally low-key pieces, like T-shirts, even higher.

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