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WordPress T-Shirts

Published by Alex 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Clients and News. 23 Comments

WordPress Model Shot

Matt (Indigo’s new lead web developer) and I have been working hard with the great guys over at Automattic, to produce a fully bespoke e-commerce website, hosted on Indigo’s servers, to sell WordPress apparel and merchandise.

San Francisco based, Automattic are the creators of the open-source WordPress blogging platform (available for free), one of the post popular blogging software packages in the world, with over one million blogs hosted on WordPress.com alone. Indigo are handling all aspects of their merchandise project including screen printing, fulfilment, distribution and customer service, and even shooting the model photographs (above)!

There are two styles of shirt, mens and womens, screen printed in one colour, on American Apparel garments. Automattic identified the American Apparel brand as the apparel of choice due to their excellent fit, ethical credentials and consumer awareness of the brand’s quality.

In effect Indigo has built two stores; one for North and South American customers, with pricing in US dollars and one for international customers, with pricing in GB pounds.

Indigo’s first major project in the United States and we are using some sophisticated order management programming to send the Americas store order details (once payment has been verified by PayPal) to either Chicago or Los Angeles based distribution centres (managed by Shipwire), depending on where the customer is based, to save on customer shipping charges. Indigo also has implemented a dedicated toll free telephone number (1-800-293-9693) to handle US customer enquiries. International orders are shipped from London.

This project has been tremendous fun and highlights our desire to provide dedicated solutions for clients rather than just shipping a box of printed t-shirts to a customer’s office. We have always been big fans of WordPress, it the software that has been powering our own blog for over three years, so it is great to give something back to the people that originally built it. So, please, buy a WordPress t-shirt, support their great software. Prices are a very reasonable 17 USD, or 9.50 GBP, for either style of tee.

An office of blondes

Published by Jo 10 months ago in News. 0 Comments

We often find ourselves in confusing situations in the Indigo office, and I’m sure this stems from the natural and peroxide enhanced locks that grace the 8th floor of Bucklersbury House daily! Lainey announced today that she ate between 50 and 60 tomatoes last night in one sitting. She then claimed this was the reason for her lack of sleep last night and dizziness today!

We do seem to have an above average amount of ‘blonde moments’. I’ll be sure to keep a note of any for your amusement purposes. Some classics include:

I dont like to walk on pavements, i generally walk in the middle of the road.

I have only used a washing machine once

The plant next to me is talking (this went on for a few weeks, only to found out it was the lift noise through the wall)

Even Alex has his blonde moments…. “Theres a lot of Pauls in this industry, Paul X, Paul Y and Steve”

You don’t come to London for the weather…

Published by Alex 10 months, 1 week ago in Clients, London and News. 0 Comments

White Rider


…so said an Aussie music fan called Matt Attlee at his web developer job interview. We practically hired him on the spot - clearly an astute observer of the Met Office reports and ex-pat clichés.

We welcome Matt to the team, who is busy coding a t-shirt store for a high profile client, who we shall announce shortly.

In other news, it was a massive weekend of sport in the UK. Commiserations to the Bryan Brothers, the American tennis doubles players who lost out in the Wimbledon finals. Indigo embroidered their shirts again this year. The Tour de France was also in town and some of the team went to watch the Prologue around Hyde Park (photos). Luckily the sun finally came out!

Hardware Sale

Published by Alex 10 months, 4 weeks ago in News. 1 Comment

We are selling two of the office computers: Gumtree ad

Really want to sell them as a set rather than individually. Happy to swap for cartons of quality blank t-shirt stock ;o)

Get involved!

Past two weeks

Published by Alex 11 months ago in Alex's Thoughts and News. 0 Comments

FESPA Logo

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 the demolition of Bucklersbury House in September ‘07.
  • We’ve been up to Cambridge to visiting the Downing Tribe and their the summer BBQ which we sponsored.
  • We’ve been busily supplying the Southbank Centre with the uniform and promo tees for their launch event: The Overture concerts.
  • We’ve been literally answering thousands of your emails and phone calls.
  • We’ve been interviewing people for the Web Developer position.
  • We’ve been working on a merchandise project with a big-US based web-brand (more details when the project launches)
  • And we’ve certainly not been getting enough sleep!

Indigo team up with Tcritic

Published by Alex 1 year ago in Friends, News and Tcritic. 1 Comment

Karltcritic-lhea

Indigo Clothing welcomes Karl (left) and Lhea (right), from the excellent, and highly acclaimed, t-shirt blog Tcritic, who are going to be guest authors on the Indigo blog. Life is pretty busy at Indigo right now and we have less and less time to browse the weird and wonderful tee sites that exist, so that is why we turned to Karl and Lhea help us out.

Tcritic is a t-shirt review site, which has over 3000 reported subscribers to its RSS feed. It is full of bright pictures, great editorial and links and adverts to the best t-shirt sites, wheter they be boutique brands or monster marques. These guys spend hours sifting through the detritus to bring their readers the best of what is out there and now they are going to do the same for Indigo readers. We strongly encourage you to check out what they are up to and we look forward to publishing their work here too.

Leavers Hoodies

Published by Alex 1 year ago in News and Promotions. 14 Comments

Hoodie

It is that time of year again - ‘Leavers Hoodies‘ organising time. So you have been tasked with kitting out your year in comfy, hard wearing and good looking hoodies, each with a custom name on the back (you should see some of the names we have printed over the years -”Jazzhands Jen ‘Oops, I Just Wee’d‘ Arthur” was one of the finest and less rude examples!) and you are not sure where to start?

  1. Why not check out Indigo’s hoodies page on our promotional clothing catalogue.
  2. To make you life easy and to save you some money, we have scrapped setup charges for Leavers hoodie orders over 50 pcs in size. That’s right - FREE SETUP.
  3. Give one of the team a call or email and we can help you find a hoodie that fits your budget.

It is that simple!

Indigo MySpace Page

Published by Alex 1 year ago in News. 1 Comment

Myspace

Much to Jo’s excitement, Indigo have a MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/indigoclothing.

Feel free to add us as a friend and say hello :o)

Print Price Drop

Published by Alex 1 year ago in News. 0 Comments

We are happy to announce that, with immediate effect, our high volume screen print prices are slashed:

  • 1000+ items: £0.70 £0.50
  • 2500+ items: £0.60 £0.40
  • 5000+ items: £0.50 £0.30
  • 7000+ items: call or email £ 0.28

This reduction is the result of Indigo’s drive to improve productivity and efficiency and reflects our desire to pass savings directly to customers.

T-Shirt Printing Guide

Published by Alex 1 year, 2 months ago in News. 1 Comment

We have just put together a t-shirt printing guide to help you make the right decision about which t-shirt to choose when thinking about putting together a t-shirt order.