Saturday, January 22, 2011

Project - Limited Edition Tees

So I'm not the type of person that likes to wait around for say, a prototype t-shirt. I can create a photo realistic mock-up in photoshop but sometimes that's not good enough. Plus, I like to build things. After a night of research on homemade screen printing presses I was happy with the design I had sketched out. The next morning I hit Home Depot with my parts list in hand. This was my plan: Build a one color screen printing press so that I could experiment with new designs and create the Limited Edition line. The Limited Edition line of t-shirts would be non-production design with only 50 being printed by me personally. By the way, I had zero screen printing experience. At the end of the night, this is what I had built. A few days later my screens arrived and I put a coat of stain on the press. Ok, now I need to learn how to screen print.

Sticker Sighting

I took a trip to CA and was shocked at what I found at the Venice Beach Pier! Stick It To 'Em Stickers stuck on things! Oh yeah! West Coast! Ok, maybe I had a little something to do with it, unless it considered vandalism, then I have no idea how they got there.

Trade Show 2010

In April of 2010 Stick It To 'Em hit the road for it's first Trade Show. The 2010 Joint Meeting & Trade Show  was for all College and Prep School Store Personnel as well as companies that supply goods and services to campus bookstores. We were looking to duplicate our success at Bates College and get some solid feedback on our line.

Humble Beginnings

Stick It To 'Em Sports is a grass roots operation. After countless hours working on our logo and sport figure designs we needed to test the goods. Bates College in Maine was enthusiastic about our line and allowed us to set up a display in their bookstore. Students started buying our tees!