Custom Clothing & Merchandise
[ad#Google Adsense] The countdown is on, 2 days until the American brand Banana Republic opens its first ever European flagship store. The store is opening on the 20th March on one of London’s most prestigious shopping streets – 224 Regent Street, London. Gap Inc. describes this part of the group: ‘Banana Republic is an accessible … Read more
According to Vogue, one of this season’s most fashionable colours is lilac (sugary shades). Alberta Ferretti explains the appeal of lilac, ‘Lilac is a romantic colour. It is sophisticated but also populist; it lets you dare without being loud, you can be noticed without being glaring.‘ Lilac personally reminds me of childhood! Here at Indigo, … Read more
My name is Antoinette and I’m a multi-media textiles student from Loughborough University. I’m here with the team at Indigo on a work-shadow placement for the day, to find out how the company works! My task is to write the blog for today, so here goes!! The supermodel Agyness Deyn is the latest supermodel to … Read more
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 … Read more
A pat on the back for Opal in the customer service team email inbox! —–Original Message—– Sent: 06 March 2008 15:31 To: Opal Witney Subject: New Client Reply – [INDIGO !32923]: Some queries Thanks so much, Opal. I’ll look forward to receiving the swatches/colour charts, and then we can make a firm decision and place … Read more
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
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
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
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
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