Say no to junk mail

My pet hate at the moment is scrapping the pizza delivery flyers out of our mailbox. Hackney (a London borough) households receive approximately 35 million pieces of unwanted mail each year, which weighs 900 tonnes and takes 6,000 trees to create. They produce a pack (pictured) which can help cutting it down including stickers and … Read more

Office Move: Part 2- Six Months On

It been exactly six months since we moved into our new offices on Provost Street, so I thought it was time for a bit of an update! As you can see from the photo of the client services area, we have filled the place with a lot of stuff – I think there are desks … Read more

Helvetica t-shirts

For all you typography fans out there, Collapse Design have some font inspired t-shirts for sale on their website (£15 inc postage, Paypal). Interesting product shots too as it looks like the model is taking a picture of himself with his right hand? Perhaps worth charging another pound for the tees and paying for a … Read more

Quentin Blake

Over the past months, Indigo has carried out two jobs for Quentin Blake, the much loved children’s illustrator of the Roald Dahl books. Quentin Blake is President of the Downing College Cambridge Alumni Association (he read English at Downing, 1953-56) and the t-shirts, screen printed with the artwork above, are for the Association so that … Read more

Printwear & Promotion 2008

This weekend sees the start of the annual Printwear & Promotion Exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham (Sunday 2nd to Tuesday 4th March). It is a time when all the brands and suppliers get together under one roof and people plod along the aisles with carrier bags full of promotional clothing catalogues, samples and free … Read more

Kensington Palace

Indigo recently completed a rush job for Kensington Palace (part of Historic Royal Palaces) consisting of Fruit of the Loom Long sleeve Valueweight t-shirts with a one colour front and one colour back screen print as part of their ‘Kids go free’ campaign. It seems the client was very happy with our service too: To: … Read more

Lizi arrives at Indigo

Hi, I’m Lizi and I have recently joined the Client Services Team here at Indigo Clothing. I am fresh out of university this summer and after a festival or three I succumbed to the reality that I do in fact have to work for a living. With that in mind I worked as an in … Read more

Monday morning

A foggy, cold Monday morning in London today and the Waterloo and City line was packed with Gore-Tex ski-jackets. A tourist may have been forgiven for thinking he/she was in Chamonix rather than on a commuter train full of people in the financial services industry! Today is start of London Fashion Week. Maybe some of … Read more

Spring Clean

The web team over at Indigo-2 have been giving the Indigo Clothing site a bit of a Spring clean recently. The catalogue design was four years old and whilst it worked and looked nice, I decided it was time that everything was given a facelift. Not all the changes are in place yet, this is … Read more

25 most offensive children’s t-shirts

Alpha Mummy, a blog on Times Online, has a good post entitled, 25 most offensive children’s T-shirts with links to the product pages. The comments are as interesting as the post itself – it seems there is a bit of controversy over whether kids should be seen in these tees, which sport slogans such, “I’m … Read more