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The tee shirt “I Listen To Bands…” has been reprinted at Threadless.com:
http://www.threadless.com/product/917/I_Listen_To_Bands
Perfect Christmas present for all you ‘indie boys’ that walk around Camden (London district) with your trousers pulled down so low we can see your Homer Simpson boxer shorts!
If you, like me, dread the thought of scouring card shops for celebration cards, Christmas cards, get well soon cards, happy dog birthday cards and any others that they seem to produce these days, then this is the site for you: Moonpig.com
Being in the customisation business we are always keen to see new ideas, and this one is genius! You can create the perfect personalised card in minutes, plus they deliver in 24 hours!
The site is easy to use and provides excellent previews to make sure you don’t make any mistakes.
We always use moonpig in the office for out leaving parties, birthdays and other celebrations, as personalised items always have an impact! You can see Ed modelling his birthday card above! Shame he closed his eyes!
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Clients can now call us on our new freephone number above. All our other phone numbers will continue to work but we wanted to expand upon our reputation for quality customer service so we have introduced this new one. Please feel free to use it!
Jo was interviewed for Company Clothing Magazine’s feature entitled, ‘Magic of merchandise‘. View the PDF on their site.
Monday, November 26th, 2007 has been dubbed ‘Blue Beanie Day’ by Douglas Vos over at Facebook’s ‘Designing with Web Standards‘. The idea is that web geeks who support the idea of websites being designed to the protocols, laid out by the W3C, and evangelised by a gentleman called Jeffrey Zeldman, wear a blue beanie, take a photo of themselves in the afore mentioned attire and post it on the dedicated Flickr group.
The blue beanie idea is based on the front cover of Zeldman’s book, where the author sports (yes - you guessed it!), a blue beanie. Indigo likes web standards and we try to design our sites to them, moreover Indigo Clothing sells blue beanies but personally I don’t like the man’s ego, I dislike his websites (I wrote a cynical blog post on my personal site back in March 2006 about Ma.gnolia - a Happy Cog/Zeldman site) and it would be hypocritical for us to back this slightly odd, Facebook/Flickr based, shenanigan.
Still, if you want to buy blue beanies from us, please don’t let my prejudices stop you!
Today is a the start of the Eco Design Fair at Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, Camden (London). At £1.50 for entry, it would be a shame to miss out and it continues tomorrow (Sat 24th 2007) too. Surely a place to get some ethical Christmas presents? Otherwise, if it is too cold to head out, just use amazon.co.uk like everyone else!
[Via Trendster Clothing]
Indigo have just screen printed and packed a new line of stock for the WordPress Merchandise Shop and the hoodies are now sitting in their respective fulfilment centres in LA, Chicago and London waiting for fans of the open-source blog platform to snap them up.
The WordPress logo is screen printed twice, in white, onto the navy blue American Apparel, unisex, hooded sweatshirts to give a crisp bright image. They are available is sizes from Extra-Small (XS) through to Extra-Large (XL) and will be limited edition. Once ’sold out’ no more navy hoodies will be printed.
Indigo Clothing set up the WordPress store in the Summer, 2007 and not only produced the initial red t-shirts but also built and hosted the e-commerce website, offering two versions, one for the ‘Americas’ and one for ‘Rest of the World’.
Opal, one of Indigo’s client services team, models the new hoodie above and was joined on the photo shoot, on the local streets of Hoxton, London, by co-worker Stephan. The pictures are on the dedicated WordPress Apparel Flickr Group where customers can also post pictures of themselves wearing the the tees and sweats.
Give the blogger in your life the a cosy Christmas present (just don’t let them wear them at ‘Bluewater’ shopping mall) 
Buy at: World Store | Americas Store
Tonight, I am off to the Strand to have drinks with the man, nicknamed ‘The Major’ at uni, who is credited with placing the first ever order with Indigo back in 2001! After leaving university, ‘The Major’ went off to serve in Iraq with the British Army as part of OP TELIC 3 and continued to order copious quantities of embroidered t-shirts which we dispatched via the BFPO (British Forces Post Office). Looking forward to catching up!
Last week, Jo, Opal and Steph went along to the preview of the new 2008 Stedman range. Stedman is our preferred ‘promotional-weight‘ brand to offer to clients due to its excellent quality-to-price ratio (or in simple terms - their range is offered at a bargain price with lovely soft feeling cotton to match!).
New for 2008 is two new colours in most styles (e.g. Kelly Green and Orange in the t-shirts) and a new fleece and hoodie is also going to be offer.
The preview had a great party atmosphere, as following the garment preview, a wine tasting competition ensued at Vinopolis in SE1, London. It seems that the team were also very keen on kissing the stone bull (see the pics on Flickr!) before heading to a local watering hole to enjoy the company of the captains of the UK promotional clothing industry!
The new products will appear on the Indigo Promotional Clothing Catalogue over the coming weeks.
Mike, over at Last Exit to Nowhere, dropped us an email last week asking us to checkout his film inspired t-shirt store. We like the cool scrolling tshirt graphics and clean designs. According to the blurb on the site, the tees are inspired or “pay homage to some of the most memorable places, corporations and companies in 20th century fiction”. For example, the tee below is based on John Carpenter’s 1982 horror masterpiece The Thing.
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