Understand your clients when picking sizes

Image Source: Creating Passionate Users Kathy Sierra, over at the Creating Passionate Users blog, makes an excellent point which anyone buying t-shirts for an event should take notice of. In fact, if you don’t have time to read her post just check out her picture above which, as the platitude goes, speaks a thousand words. … Read more

American Apparel to be sold for $382 million US

American Apparel, the casual clothing chain whose socially conscious manufacturing, sexually charged advertising and snug-fitting T-shirts have generated a cultlike following, will be sold to a little-known investment firm for $382.5 million, according to people briefed on the matter. Source: The New York Times, 18 Dec 2006 

Google Trends: T-Shirt Printing

If you haven’t come across Google Trends yet, check it out. You can see and compare search patterns over time and key news articles are correlated with the graphs. Interesting to note summer 2005 saw a big peak in search volume for the t-shirt printing industry compared to 2006, which wasn’t as big as 2005 … Read more

Books for t-shirt lovers

What do you get a friend who is a t-shirt lover for Christmas other than a t-shirt, because if they have one more trendy, screen printed, slogan tee in their wardrobe, it will explode? Well, a book may be a good way to go and The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy by … Read more

Off with its head

We have been making do with the default header than defines the ‘k2‘ WordPress theme (the techie stuff that powers the Indigo blog) for far too long. This purple block is getting a little dull to say the least and I have been inspired by the collage design over at Matt Mullenweg’s blog. The two … Read more

Kindred Tees

Another review of a US t-shirt web store, this time a brand called Kindred, whose surrealistic, pioneer-inspired collection is some of the most original stuff we have ever seen screen printed on a t-shirt. American Apparel shirts (how did you guess?) and a $5 off coupon code of ‘cousineddie‘ makes this site well worth the … Read more

ISO50/Tycho – 2 New Shirts Out

2 new ISO50 shirts are now available at the ISO50 Shop and there’s still time to get them delivered for the holidays. The Command and Arbor prints have also been restocked, along with several other original ISO50 poster prints. ISO50 is the home of California based designer Scott Hansen. A beautifully designed site with rich … Read more

Christmas Closing

Our opening/closing times for the Christmas period. * CLOSE – midday on Friday 22nd December 2006 * RE-OPEN – 9am on Tuesday 2nd January 2007 We will run a skeleton crew on 27th to 29th December. We hope everyone is enjoying the festive season!

One Night Stand T-Shirts

The crazy cats over at have an excellent selection of funny/offensive (depends on your sense of humour I suppose) tees in retro and vintage styles. In fact they look like ordinary slogan tees until you take the time to actually read the words, but as the guys say: Are the t-shirts offensive? Probably. Are the … Read more

Email Issues

We’ve had a few teething troubles with ‘Ange‘ (the new Indigo server) and emails today. Sorry if you email hasn’t got through – all is fine now!