Category Archives: Alex’s Thoughts

Has to be bespoke

By Alex | Published: 5 February, 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 [...]

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Merry Christmas

By Alex | Published: 24 December, 2007

Wishing all our clients, suppliers, friends and supporters a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

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Blue Beanie Day

By Alex | Published: 25 November, 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 [...]

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Alex is in California

By Alex | Published: 3 November, 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. [...]

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Change in the organic clothing marketplace

By Alex | Published: 13 August, 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 [...]

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The White Shirt

By Alex | Published: 17 July, 2007

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 [...]

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Past two weeks

By Alex | Published: 19 June, 2007

So what have we been up to in June? Why has the blog been so sparse on quality updates? Well… We’ve been at FESPA ’07 in Berlin looking at the latest printing hardware and listening to Scott Fresener plug T-Jet (oh, and drinking Continental’s free beer). We’ve been looking at new offices in preparation for [...]

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