Monthly Archives: March 2008

Luxury Redefined

There is a group of people out there who share the collective aim of developing the ‘perfect t-shirt‘. They have now developed a great looking website (luxuryredefined.co.uk) and, being t-shirt related, it sits in my bookmarks in the t-shirt websites category (it is a BIG category!). I do though find it’s presence there a slight [...]

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Money saving tips

If choosing screen printing as a customisation option on t-shirts, or other promotional clothing, here are some key money saving tips to keep the price per item down:

Print with less colours – a one colour print costs much less than a 4 colour one!
Print on just one side rather than both sides.
Order more items – [...]

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Threadless Coupons

The first five thousand people to use the coupon code ‘spring08‘ during the Threadless Spring Cleaning sale will receive $5 off their order on top of the already discounted sale price.

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T-Shirts in tubes

Matt recently returned from his travels in Australia and Japan and he popped into the office to show show us a ‘t-shirt-in-a tube’ he bought from a fancy t-shirt vending machine store in Tokyo. The shop is a concept store by well know brand UNIQLO UT and as a retail idea, it is pretty [...]

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Banana Republic London flagship store

The countdown is on, 2 days until the American brand Banana Republic opens its first ever European flagship store. The store is opening on the 20th March on one of London’s most prestigious shopping streets – 224 Regent Street, London. Gap Inc. describes this part of the group: ‘Banana Republic is an accessible luxury brand, [...]

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Colour Prediction for Spring & Summer 2008

According to Vogue, one of this season’s most fashionable colours is lilac (sugary shades). Alberta Ferretti explains the appeal of lilac, ‘Lilac is a romantic colour. It is sophisticated but also populist; it lets you dare without being loud, you can be noticed without being glaring.‘ Lilac personally reminds me of childhood!
Here at Indigo, Gildan [...]

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Agyness Deyn – the supermodel to watch

My name is Antoinette and I’m a multi-media textiles student from Loughborough University. I’m here with the team at Indigo on a work-shadow placement for the day, to find out how the company works! My task is to write the blog for today, so here goes!!
The supermodel Agyness Deyn is the latest supermodel to be [...]

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Firefox 3 T-Shirt Design Competition

After telling you about the LSE t-shirt competition, we have found another one, this time to promote Firefox 3, the new browser from Mozilla, the makers of the open source rival browser to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Top prize wins:

Worldwide recognition for designing the official Firefox 3 T-Shirt featured in the Mozilla Store.
A free Firefox 3 [...]

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LSE T-Shirt Competition

London School of Economics (LSE), where our very own Ed Mitala (Indigo accounts guru) studies, has a t-shirt design competition and the winning design wins a £100 and gets to see their design sold in the Union shop. I assume the competition is only open to LSE students but this is a great idea [...]

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High praise indeed!

A pat on the back for Opal in the customer service team email inbox!
—–Original Message—–
Sent: 06 March 2008 15:31
To: Opal Witney
Subject: New Client Reply – [INDIGO !32923]: Some queries
Thanks so much, Opal. I’ll look forward to receiving the swatches/colour charts, and then we can make a firm decision and place our order next week.
You [...]

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