Indigo have decided to expand the artwork department. Edward is a three year-old artistic prodigy. Tim, his proud father has donated him to help with t-shirt designs. Thanks Tim!
Archive for March, 2006
Hugh beat me to it - a new design is up, and so is a new concept, ‘Saturday Shirts’ - limited edition design launched on a Saturday, available on pre-order for one week, then they are gone forever! Check out the Gapingvoid t-shirt site.
Indigo print and fufuil orders for Gapingvoid t-shirts.
New in from Australia (stmbags.com.au), high quaility bags, laptop cases and even an ipod-case can be found in the new STM bag section of the Indigo site.
These items can be embroidered with a company logo and so we reckon they could be excellent for trendy staff members on the move.
Encouraged by last years purge of Gildan as our the Indigo prefered t-shirt, we have removed the Gildan polos, sweats and hoodies from the site and replaced the Gildan polos with three Fruit of the Loom items and replaced the Gildan sweatshirts with three Jerzees items.
In some respects I am sad to see the Gildan leave the site. They were the first items Indigo offered 4 years ago along with the Continental range for women. Over the years though I have been growingly concerned about their price to quality ratio; such an important aspect to consider when making promotional apparel buying descions. Ultmilately the changes reflect better value for money. Jerzees make some crackingly good quality stuff and Fruit, whilst maybe a little tired as a brand, provides depth and breadth of weights and colours for a good price.
We can still supply all of Gildan’s range should you want it, we are just changing what we display as our core product.
The design for the Indigo free t-shirt giveaway has been selected and is going out to screen print. As soon as it is ready, the details about how to get one will go up on the blog. It was designed by June, the orignal designer of our logo, based on an idea by Jo and chosen from the shortlist by me (Alex). It is meant to be a post-modernist statement style tee not a French Connection-esque smutty innuendo but I suppose the line is blurry the more I look at it. Anyway, it is meant to be a bit of fun.
La Fraise is a French t-shirt site that has been on our radar for a long time. In fact we carry a little link to it at the bottom of most our pages mainly beacuse we think their produce cool t-shirt designs. The charismatic owner Patrice has a Boss’s Blog on the site which is suberb for polishing your French and getting a insight into this t-shirt web shop phenomenon.
The business model is similar to that of Threadless in Chicago, USA but there is a enough to set this site apart form being a mere European copy - and, for all I know, La Fraise may have been around first.
The choice of American Apparel t-shirts is a good one, especially for their softness and colour range, however I personally find their t-shirts a little thin, maybe because Patrice is in the south of France and we’re in the UK. Indigo offers American Apparel t-shirts, should our customers want them, but normally for this kind of project we recommend London based Continental Clothing as the labelling system is far superior, with the neck label being a simple black tab with just the size, whilst the brand and wash care label are on silk cut-single tabs on the inner left-hand-side seam. This makes sewing-in your own brand label easier (as not cut-and-sew is needed).
I strongly suggest checking them out as well as Loic Le Meur’s post on the company.
Via Fashion Capital:
Businesses involved in manufacturing, importing or selling clothing and accessories need to be familiar with the labelling requirements. Incorrect labelling can be a criminal offence and retailers and wholesalers may refuse to accept incorrectly labelled items. Incorrectly labelled goods sent for export can be impounded by customs and refused entry.
More useful labelling tips can be wound in the article. Indigo offer label manufacture and relabelling services.
Indigo can supply Stedman clothing, a promotional range made by Sara Lee Printables, the same company that makes Hanes and frozen chocolate cakes. Their classic t-shirt is a ideal product for high volume runs. According to the Stedman site:
Since its launch in 2001 the Stedman line has been a tremendous sales success. With an unequalled growth in volume the Stedman T-shirts, sweats and polos have been amazingly quick to gain a strong foothold on the European volume market.
If you are interested in this range contact Alex on 0871 711 2151.
