Originally started to help friends make t-shirts for cheap, ended up getting some equipment and figuring out what needed to be done to start a business - turns out: not much. Shoestring budget and still just for fun, if a shirt gets sold, rad - I'm 'adding guac.' If not, Big Cartel is still cool enough to host the site for free (check them out btw) and I can shake the dust off of a blank shirt when someone asks what the hell the equipment in the garage does.
Constantly looking for ways to increase productivity, make more sense out of the ordering and fulfillment process and if all else goes to hell, I've got a drawer full of one-of-a-kind shirts and I can always make for the border! Hopefully it doesn't go that bad though ...
The rule will always be to start with a comfortable shirt. The coolest logo or print ever doesn't amount to much if it's printed on some thick, boxy shirt that'll never get worn. From there, a soft print so you don't even know it's there. Fun sayings, cool logos, unique if nothing else. Everything else is icing.
Originally started screen printing - pro tip: don't try to gang mesh screens. Grabbed a name that wasn't already trademarked (nearly impossible), registered for an LLC (stupid easy), used open-source software to make vector images (s/o Inkscape), asked some friends to try a ton of different shirts, grabbed a heatpress as a placeholder (still screenprinting, but someone else does the hard part!), and ... that's about it? Turns out the heatpress is ideal for small runs and sporadic orders. I can fire it up for 1 or 100, but not more. I'll still work with friends to make some shirts, steal some space on a gang sheet for new colors/ideas and see how they work. Sometimes something sounds cool in the mind and looks ridiculous.
Ah well, rep it anyhow
