Fat American

Not being rude about a person across ‘the pond’ with the title of this post but referring to fatamerican.tv who have 3 new t-shirt designs to look at on their newly redesigned website. I love the model photos taken by Wheat Wurtzburger of homeless people wearing their t-shirts. I bought one of their t-shirts (Sweatshop) … Read more

Eleni’s Mum and Green School Award

Nina, head teacher and Eleni‘s mum of Godwin Junior School in East London, was on the BBC today talking about her school being shortlisted for a Teaching Award in recognition of the work it does around sustainability. Well done Mrs Panayis and her staff and kids!

Job Vacancy: Web Developer

Indigo is in need of a bright spark web developer, handy in PHP, MySQL and JS with a great personality and who actually understands the meaning of Web2.0: view ad on jobs page.

Uber-Green T-Shirt Printer: TS Designs (USA)

I stumbled upon this interview by eco e-zine Treehugger on a company called TS Designs in the US. TS Designs have set up a solar array and a bio-diesel coop all as part of their mission ‘to build a sustainable company that simultaneously looks after the People, the Planet and Profits’. It is a interesting … Read more

Lack of blogging

Sorry for the complete lack of activity here over the past two weeks but lets face it, it is late May, and it is manic here in the office. You see when the summer comes along (when it stops raining), schools start breaking up (so leavers hoodies), people organise events, trips, reunions, short sleeve staff … Read more

Provocative Ads

Want to see what the overtly sex-oriented marketing campaigns look like that are coming out of American Apparel’s (AA) pink, California, offices at the moment? Well AA ever growing website has them online, sorted chronologically: According to MediaPost’s Marketing Daily (April 20, 2007) who list AA as 8th in their “Most Trusted 15 brands named … Read more

Indigo team up with Tcritic

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 … Read more

Threadless Bioshock and Video

Threadless, the US t-shirt competition behemoth, has got some new t-shirt designs out based on the theme of “Descent into Rapture” from a newly awaited computer game called ‘Bioshock‘. Don’t ask us about computer games but I guess Threadless have teamed up with the makers, Irrational Games and 2K and working together are shipping more … Read more

Greenwashing

There has been a flurry of eco/ethical/organic posts on this blog of late, but nothing in comparison to miles of column inches in the press at present. I hope we aren’t overdoing it but the green issues that face the apparel and promotions industry are the most exciting thing to happen to it since someone … Read more

Selfridges goes green?

Not to be upstaged by the hype surrounding Anya Hindmarch’s bag (that is not plastic), Selfridges, the famous London department store, has ditched its yellow bags for paper ones. According to Drapers Record, Selfridges chief executive Paul Kelly claimed that this was an environmental move that also happens to represent the retailer’s upmarket image. This … Read more