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 [...]
It been exactly six months since we moved into our new offices on Provost Street, so I thought it was time for a bit of an update! As you can see from the photo of the client services area, we have filled the place with a lot of stuff – I think there are desks [...]
By Alex | February 11, 2008 A foggy, cold Monday morning in London today and the Waterloo and City line was packed with Gore-Tex ski-jackets. A tourist may have been forgiven for thinking he/she was in Chamonix rather than on a commuter train full of people in the financial services industry! Today is start of London Fashion Week. Maybe some of [...]
By Alex | February 10, 2008 The web team over at Indigo-2 have been giving the Indigo Clothing site a bit of a Spring clean recently. The catalogue design was four years old and whilst it worked and looked nice, I decided it was time that everything was given a facelift. Not all the changes are in place yet, this is [...]
By Alex | February 5, 2008 CityAM, the free London financial newspaper, that is jammed in ones face most mornings by an over-zealous, anoraked vendor at every tube and rail station in this city, has a good article about bespoke suits. I agree with the author that these are special items and once you have had a bespoke suit, going back [...]
By Alex | December 24, 2007 Wishing all our clients, suppliers, friends and supporters a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!
By Alex | November 25, 2007 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 [...]
By Alex | November 3, 2007 I’m just leaving for California, travelling down from San Francisco to Los Angeles from 5th to 14th November, meeting with our US clients and suppliers, specifically WordPress, whose online merchandise store we launched worldwide this summer (read more here). Jo is ably running the Indigo office in London with the rest of the Indigo team. [...]
By Alex | August 13, 2007 There are a number of serious brands now offering good quality organic and Fairtrade products in this niche part of the promotional clothing market. Katie, who joins Indigo for one week of work experience from Wales, is adding about twenty organic cotton products to the Indigo site as I type and she’ll be writing on [...]
The white shirt, a timeless classic as far as modern clothing is concerned, and whilst the quotes below from the Financial Times (that well known fashion publication) are a few years old there is still so much truth in them: “A few years ago white shirts were associated with uniforms, and so pale blue and [...]
