Category: Printing and Production

I remember sitting on a milk crate in my first shared studio, surrounded by the smell of plastisol ink and cheap coffee, staring at a pile of “premium” blanks that … Read more

I still remember sitting on the floor of my first shared studio, surrounded by half-empty ink cans and a mountain of cheap, scratchy blanks that I’d been tricked into buying. … Read more

I still remember the smell of burnt ozone and cheap polyester from that first shared studio space I worked in, staring at a box of fifty hoodies that looked nothing … Read more

I still remember the smell of that first shared studio—a thick, cloying mix of solvent and burnt cotton that stayed in my hair for days. I was so convinced that … Read more

I was standing in my shared studio three years ago, staring at a stack of “premium” heavyweight hoodies I’d just spent way too much money on, only to watch the … Read more

I still remember the first time I tried to launch my own little line of tees; I’d spent weeks obsessing over the graphic design, only to have the entire batch … Read more

I remember sitting on a milk crate in my first shared studio, staring at a pile of “premium” blanks that had just arrived for a client’s run of oversized and … Read more

I still remember the first time I tried to scale my little shirt project, thinking I could just “eye it” and call it a day. I ended up with a … Read more

I still remember the first time I tried to run a custom drop in the shared studio. I had spent weeks obsessing over a specific shade of sage for my … Read more

I still remember the first time I tried to run a custom design through a professional screen setup, only to end up with a pile of expensive, wasted blanks because … Read more