The 28th May 2008 was a date that’d been in in my diary for some time. After never missing a single episode, and watching continuous repeats in DVD, the SATC movie was a major must see!
In a rumoured 300 costume changes in 148 minutes, the ever stylish Ms Bradshaw also dons a one-colour printed tee! I can confirm all speculation as false as Indigo did NOT print this tee! We do however stock the Gildan Ultra tee in a similar royal blue shade. These can also be customised with a one colour print (We do not unfortunately stock the glorious Dior gladiator shoes Carrie wears in the no 1 chick flick!).
The film is a definite must see, I loved the plot and the outfits, and to see New York’s ‘last single girl’ in the glorious Vivienne Westwood wedding dress brought a tear to my eye! Amazing! I’ll stop here before i ruin it for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet!
Us girls in the office do tend to bore the men with fake tan, gossip and frocks, so to keep the testosterone balance, we have our alpha male of the office, Stephan! He is often quoted as saying the things he does/eats/wears/watches are ‘real man sh*t’!
I couldn’t help notice a fellow holidaymaker at Gatwick airport sporting a grey micro fleece jacket with REAL MEN embroidery detail. I might have to get one made up for the REAL MAN of our office.
Tom, Indigo-2’s new lead web developer, has noticed, thanks to the 37signals blog, that you can have fun with the CNN headline t-shirt maker thingy we posted about yesterday!
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 T-Shirt to show off your winning design.
- $250 gift voucher to Amazon.com.
Not the most enticing prize perhaps but to be fair the recognition could be worth a lot?
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 and makes for more interesting merchandise in uni shops compared to the traditional hoodie, with college crest, which is often the default offering on most campuses.
What do people like on their pancakes? We thought about this after Darsh mentioned on the phone last night she likes peanut butter, ice-cream and dolly mixtures?!
So here are our favs:
Jo - Old skool lemon and sugar.
Steph (alpha male) - Protein shake added to batter mix!
Lizi - Grated milk and white chocolate!
Matt - Lemon and sugar.
Ed - Refused to play our silly little games.
Opal - Strawberries and cream and maybe syrup.
Alex - Sugar.
Travelling back from our ‘work outing’ in Nottingham this Sunday without my usual trashy girls mags, I was forced to read Stephan’s ‘boys’ publications, Men’s Health and Front. Amongst other facts for the lads, I came across this picture of Matt Helders, of Arctic Monkeys, wearing a t-shirt about CMYK colours!
A similar shirt is available to purchase from a great site called www.ebtm.com, standing for Everything but the Music, priced at £20.00.
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.
I saw this t-shirt book when I was out wandering around Shoreditch with Matt, Indigo’s inhouse web developer, whilst on the ‘Shoot Shoreditch‘ photo competition, on a sunny day in late August in East London. I thought it was rather relevant and the book looked quite good, but in the end I refrained from buying yet another t-shirt design book! There are plenty of websites and blogs online where one can see great designs for free these days (e.g. Threadless, LaFraise, Design By Humans and of course Indigo’s del.icio.us feed).
To see some of the Shoreditch photos see my flickr set. Also check out Indigo’s t-shirt range.
If you only do one thing today go and read this article on the history of the T-shirt from Gelf Magazine.
Whether you choose to admit it or not, chances are a critical reserve of self-esteem rests somewhere near the middle of your T-shirt drawer. For within this darkened, hidden quarter lies dormant a secret weapon so witty, so elusively allusive, or just so damn hip it finds itself swathing your chest on only the most important occasions.
some of my favs are:
Choose Wisely!
Here’s another quote from the article from George Carlin’s “Coolest T-shirt Trap” in his 1997 volume of random musings, Brain Droppings:
There are times when you take 15 minutes to pick out which shirt to wear, because you’re going to a place where they’ll be a bunch of guys you’ve never met…and you think, ‘No one has ever seen a shirt like this. This will make them jealous’…then when you get there, no one cares at all. And all of the other guys turn out to be dorks who will wear any piece of shit that’s handed to them. Like ‘Property of Alcatraz’ and ‘Life is Beach.’ What a letdown.
[via Kottke]
originally published at tcritic the t-shirt blog
