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Vintage Workshop Video
Check out out our You Tube channel for a brand new video of our screen printing workshop at the Victoria and Albert Museum:
Posted in by on Thursday 2 September 2010
Warrior Woman print now available
This great art print by Nichloas Saunders is now available to buy in our shop.
We think its ace....
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Other Stuff by Louise on Thursday 2 September 2010
Friday Late
Our Friday Late workshop at the V&A was great fun. Totally hectic but we loved it. We managed to print scarves with 120 people in 3 hours - a supreme...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Saturday 28 August 2010
The Great Outdoors
We have been printing some totes for a band called The Great Outdoors. The design is by illustrator Emily warren and we think its lovely.
More lovely things by Emily...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Other Stuff by Louise on Thursday 26 August 2010
Our ironing
What else would we get our work experience student to do? Here's a photo of Sean testing out what happens if you iron directly onto a print on the highest...
Posted in Screen Printing, Other Stuff by Hannah on Thursday 26 August 2010
Goodwood was good
The screen printing workshops at Vintage at Goodwood went really well.
We were positively inundated with questions from interested people - which is always a good thing!
The second round...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Thoughts, Other Stuff by Louise on Monday 16 August 2010New dates for screen printing workshops
Back by popular demand!
We have two new dates for screen printing workshops at the studio.
On Saturday 18th September we will be running a graphic printing workshop, where...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Other Stuff by Louise on Monday 16 August 2010
Preview of our new logo
We have been working on a new logo for I Dress Myself for a while now, and we are really pleased with the final design.
So much so that...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Thoughts, Other Stuff by Louise on Monday 16 August 2010
We will be at Vintage at Goodwood
We are really excited, as Pete will be at the Vintage at Goodwood Festival on Friday 13th August!
He will be running some screen printing workshops with the Victoria and...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Thoughts, Other Stuff by Louise on Thursday 29 July 2010
Oh cotton paper we love you
We just starting using this cotton paper - a special type of Somerset Satin for screen printing - and it is amazing. Beautiful.
Posted in Screen Printing, Thoughts by on Monday 26 July 2010
I want to be...
We printed these totes for Jodie Fowler - a volunteer teacher at Adjiringanor Primary School in Ghana, where she teaches the children Art and English. Having been very frustrated with the...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Ethics and Environment by Hannah on Monday 26 July 2010
Warrior Woman available soon
This Warrior Woman print by Nicholas Saunders is a triumph and will be available to order on pre-sale soon. Sign up for our mailing list for the pre-sale link and...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Friday 23 July 2010
Harriet Russell
Today we have been printing some fantastic t shirts for illustrator Harriet Russell.
Harriet has done some amazing illustration and design work for lots of magazines and newspapers, things...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Other Stuff by Louise on Thursday 22 July 2010
Five pound poster club
Thinking of setting up a £5 poster club. It would give us an excuse to play around with new ideas and printing techniques. What do you think? The idea would be...
Posted in Other Stuff by Hannah on Monday 5 July 2010The human printer tote bag now here!
This week we printed our new tote bag by The Human Printer Louise Naunton Morgan
The bag has a brilliant hand drawn graph paper design on both sides. We like...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Thoughts, Other Stuff by Louise on Thursday 24 June 2010
Burgerman and Britney
While we were on the topic of Jon Burgerman...
The other day we received an email with an attached photo from Jon: "Britney went down a storm in NYC"
New Jon Burgerman print
A brand new limited edition art print by Jon Burgerman is now available on our website.
Named Vomit Comet it really is something to behold!
There are 60...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Thoughts, Other Stuff by Louise on Thursday 24 June 2010
The human printer tote bag coming soon..
We have collaborated with Louise Naunton Morgan on a new tote bag design.
As well as other amazing things she is a a human printer.
We will leave...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Thoughts, Other Stuff by Louise on Thursday 17 June 2010
Environmental Justice Foundation
We think that the Environmental Justice Foundation do really good work.
Particularly relevant is their campaign to clean up cotton, in relation to child labour, pesticides and the use of...
Posted in Ethics and Environment, Thoughts, Other Stuff by Louise on Thursday 17 June 2010prices going down
Well some of them. We really like printing onto white tees and we want to do more printing onto white tees. It takes less time, uses less ink, less electricity and...
Posted in Screen Printing by Hannah on Thursday 10 June 2010
New Print and New Tee For Sale
Just added to the website, an amazing new limited edition art print by the wonderful Julia Pott.
Julia is an illustrator and animator. When we came across her...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Other Stuff by Louise on Thursday 10 June 2010
Thanks everyone!
Thank you to everyone who came to our Spring Fling Studio Sale yesterday
We had a lovely day of screen printing with Norm from Waste and Nick Saunders. Jon Burgerman came by...
Posted in Screen Printing, Thoughts, Other Stuff by Louise on Sunday 23 May 2010
Warrior Woman artwork for tomorrow
This is the artwork for the screen print we are printing tomorrow with Nicholas Saunders. It will be available on the day for only £10. £10!!! Get down...
Posted in Other Stuff by Hannah on Friday 21 May 2010
the Spring Fling plan
Only two days until the Spring Fling. Here is some of what we have planned.
Norm from Waste will be printing this great three-colour tee live. These tees will be on sale...
Posted in Other Stuff by Pete on Thursday 20 May 2010
Studio Sale Sat 22 May
Not long now until our Spring Fling Studio Sale
We are getting quite excited - hope you can make it!
32-40 Carrington Street, Nottingham, NG1 7FG
Between 12 & 4 pm
Tees...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Thoughts, Other Stuff by Louise on Thursday 13 May 2010
Doing that online social networking thing
We finally gave in and joined all those millions of people wasting time on the internet looking at what other people are doing
We joined Facebook and Twitter.
So you can now become...
Posted in Thoughts, Other Stuff by Louise on Thursday 13 May 2010Jon Burgerman live doodleprint
Jon will be joining us at the studio for the Spring fling sale for a live doodle-print collaboration. You might be able to get him to sign your Burgerman goodies. If...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Friday 30 April 2010
Net Neutrality
Many internet users know about net neutrality, but if not then listen up!
Net Neutrality is the idea to keep the net free and open, without restriction from large ISP companies like...
Posted in Ethics and Environment, Thoughts, Other Stuff by on Friday 30 April 2010
Screen printing action
Pete is going to screen print some art prints at the Spring Fling sale so you can see the printing process yourself. The prints will be available to people on the...
Posted in Screen Printing by Hannah on Friday 30 April 2010Spring Fling Studio Sale
In exactly one month from now on Saturday May 22nd we will be having a Studio Sale. Aptly titled Spring Fling - we will opening our studio and selling lots of...
Posted in Screen Printing, Thoughts, Other Stuff by Louise on Thursday 22 April 2010
Could Be The Best
Next to the newly opened Greggs across the road from the studio is a sign advertising another fine new establishment due to open soon.
Nails. Could be the best.
...
Posted in Other Stuff by Louise on Thursday 15 April 2010
Rag time
We often get asked for stuff. But it is not often someone calls up and asks us for our old rags. We have donated a load of misprinted tees...
Posted in Ethics and Environment by Hannah on Friday 9 April 2010The Joy of Box
We know this fella Jim Boxall who does excellent things with visuals, projections and installations set to live music.
He has performed and collaborated with some really interesting people and has...
Posted in Design, Other Stuff by Louise on Thursday 1 April 2010Weird Hatch
As we are going to be using some of the studio next to us for storing stuff, we removed the board covering the door in the middle of the wall this...
Posted in Other Stuff by Louise on Thursday 25 March 2010
Moving Stuff
We are going to be using some more of the studio space next door - which is good as currently we use a small room upstairs in the building to store...
Posted in Other Stuff by Louise on Thursday 25 March 2010
Now thats recycling!
Today Helen went to get an envelope from the shelf where we store them for recycling.
This is the one she pulled out.
What is so special about...
Posted in Other Stuff by Louise on Thursday 4 March 2010
So many prints!
Pete has just finished printing a massive amount of what will eventually be CD covers for Spaceships Are Cool (after being die cut at a print finishers).
We need to go...
Posted in Screen Printing, Other Stuff by Louise on Thursday 25 February 2010
Tiger Print now on sale
This amazing art print, limited to 40 editions is now on sale on our website.
Printed in seven colours, it is truly an amazing thing to behold!
We reckon it will be...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Louise on Thursday 11 February 2010
New Stuff Added to Website
Today has been a very productive day!
There are three new products for sale on the website: Badges by Beth Buss - Lobster Badge Set
...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Other Stuff by Louise on Thursday 4 February 2010
Just What we Need!
Another fucking Greggs.
Posted in Other Stuff by Pete on Wednesday 27 January 2010
Even the Dogs
At I Dress Myself, we like Jon McGregor. Jon has not got a proper job and has been misguided, led astray if you will, into supporting Norwich City Football Club. But...
Posted in Other Stuff by on Wednesday 27 January 2010
I Found a Print!
In our house. I found this Japanese wood block print. It was on the wall on the landing, long forgotten, gathering layers of dust. I have decided to rescue it, re-frame...
Posted in Other Stuff by Pete on Wednesday 27 January 2010
Ink Shelves
We had an amazing shelving unit for our inks custom built for the studio.
It means that we can store all the inks we mix up for different print jobs and...
Posted in Screen Printing, Ethics and Environment by Louise on Thursday 14 January 2010
Blackboard Brooch
Four of us here (out of five!) have our birthdays in January.
Today I was given a great present for mine from Pete & Hannah - a blackboard brooch! I will...
Posted in Design, Thoughts, Other Stuff by Louise on Thursday 14 January 2010
The Magnificent Revolution
I heard about these guys The Magnificent Revolution when they had a cycle powered cinema here in Nottingham as part of the Hinterland Projects
I...
Posted in Ethics and Environment, Thoughts, Other Stuff by Louise on Monday 21 December 2009New products coming soon
We have been working on some new products to sell in our online shop.
We are pretty excited to get them finished and onto the website but in the meantime...
Posted in Other Stuff by Louise on Monday 14 December 2009
Mouth Trumpet Greetings Cards
We love this range of greetings cards by Belfast based designers Mouth Trumpet. Absolute genius!
I think this one is my favourite. Just circle the appropriate words to personalise!...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Other Stuff by Louise on Monday 7 December 2009
Toms Greasy Pole
This is Tom.
He is doing work experience for us while studying at university. As well as making us laugh a lot he also modeled all the mens tees...
Posted in Other Stuff by Louise on Monday 30 November 2009
Big Chair
We like this 4 metre high chair by Tomas Chaffe, who recently got back from Artissima 16 art fair in Turin where he exhibited this new work called Artissima Chair, within...
Posted in Design by Pete on Tuesday 24 November 2009
Bring Back British Rail
Bring Back British Rail is a new UK-wide campaign. They are demanding:
- An end to private interest in public transport.
- A fully integrated, publicly-owned rail network, in which the passengers are...
Posted in Ethics and Environment, Other Stuff by Pete on Tuesday 24 November 2009
Our Tees in the new Nottingham Contemporary shop
If you happen to be visiting the brand spanking new art gallery in Nottingham - be sure to check out the shop where we have three of our t-shirt designs for...
Posted in Thoughts, Other Stuff by Louise on Wednesday 18 November 2009
Handwash studios
We love this calendar that Yann Brien from Handwash Studios sent us earlier this year and are hoping to collaborate with him on some limited edition prints in the...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Other Stuff by Hannah on Friday 11 September 2009
New fancy printing table
The New Technology Initiative helped us to buy a new fancy flat bed printing table and it is wonderful.
It has a front-register locking device that improves registration and print quality so...
Posted in Screen Printing by Hannah on Friday 11 September 2009
Water reclamation and recycling
We have teamed up with the Environmental Technology Centre at Nottingham University to design and build a water reclamation and recycling system for washing the ink off our screens. The ETC...
Posted in Ethics and Environment by Hannah on Thursday 30 July 2009gone quiet
We have been too busy over the last couple of months to write newsletters and blogs and it has been way too hectic to hold workshops. We have been pretty...
Posted in Other Stuff by Hannah on Thursday 30 July 2009
Fingers and Thumbs sold out
The Fingers & Thumbs prints by Jon Burgerman have sold out. If you missed out here is a sneak preview of its sister print Crashdown, which will be available in a...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Sunday 7 June 2009
Only two left
Only two Fingers & Thumbs prints by Jon Burgerman left in the edition so get in there quick.
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Saturday 6 June 2009
Owes me a letter
This bizarre banner turned up today at a window opposite our studio. Our studio is on the 2nd floor so not many people will have seen it from street level...
Posted in Design, Thoughts by Hannah on Thursday 4 June 2009
New film maker
We have just bought this amazing new film making system. The Canon LP24 CAD printer has much lower ink consumption compared to other large format printers and it can achieve...
Posted in Screen Printing by Hannah on Thursday 4 June 2009
Sustainable print book
We are featured in the new and beautiful Print and Production Finished for Sustainable Design (phew) book written by Edward Denison and published by Rotovision. We would definitely recommend the book...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Ethics and Environment by Hannah on Wednesday 27 May 2009
This is not for charity
In mid June Julian Emre Sayarer will be departing from Rouen, France, to cycle 18,000 miles in six months. Julian is hoping to make a new world record for the feat...
Posted in Ethics and Environment, Other Stuff by Hannah on Saturday 23 May 2009
Collect London preview
We printed some of the designs for the Collect London launch - a collection of T-shirt designs from more than 20 artists. Here is a sneak preview of one of them....
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Tuesday 19 May 2009
Decorating the studio
We decided to clean up the studio and came across lots of lovely prints that we have pulled over the past year or two. We put up some of our...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Other Stuff by Hannah on Monday 18 May 2009
free dickhead doodles
Here are pictures of some of the free dickhead doodles that Jon Burgerman drew for those people on our mailing list and Jons facebook page that pre-ordered a we are dickheads...
Posted in Design by Hannah on Monday 18 May 2009
I am doing it my way
I was looking back through some old photos today and came across this which we saw at the BBK-Berlins print workshop in Berlin. A bit random but I really like...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Thursday 14 May 2009
Email working again
Our usual email addresses are now working again. Apologies to anyone whose email was lost over the last week. If you did send us an email between Monday 4th and...
Posted in Other Stuff by Hannah on Monday 11 May 2009Email and website NIGHTMARE
Big apologies to everyone that's been trying to contact us over the last week. The server used by our hosting company has been down since Monday 4th May and our emails...
Posted in Other Stuff by Hannah on Sunday 10 May 2009Last chance to vote
Last chance to vote for your favourite birds T-shirt design. Voting ends at midnight tonight.
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Thursday 30 April 2009Ink posters
Ink Posters is a collaboration between Nottingham-based designers Joff & Ollie and Oslo-based design company Zoot to design limited edition posters that are available on their website inkposters.co.uk.
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Thursday 23 April 2009
Voting well underway
Voting has commenced to find the winner of our T-shirt design competition. Thank you to everyone who has voted so far. Voting will be open for the month of...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Tuesday 7 April 2009Cotton on
A one-day conference open to everyone with an interest in cotton, from fashion students to ethical consumers, from textile manufacturers to campaigners, from clothing retailers to certifiers, from development students to designers. It...
Posted in Ethics and Environment by Hannah on Tuesday 7 April 2009
Competition ended
We have chosen our favourite three designs and will be putting them up on the website tonight for you to start voting. We had a great response and really enjoyed looking...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Thursday 2 April 2009
Match box printing
We've been printing old match boxes for our badge sets. They look lovely. Take a look.
Oh, if you have any old match boxes (or postcards, greeting cards, etc) that you...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Thursday 2 April 2009
Last day for comp entries
Our Birds T-shirt design competition deadline is tomorrow at midnight so get your entries in soon. Thanks to everyone who's sent an entry in so far. It's been great to have such...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Tuesday 31 March 2009dickhead responses
Jon's had an overwhelming response on facebook to the dickhead tee colour question. It looks like we're going to go with number 3. Thanks to everyone who responded -...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Thursday 19 March 2009
dickhead tee question
We're working with Jon Burgerman to print these new tees and can't decide what colours to go for. We'll do two colour schemes - what do you think? Versions...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Thursday 19 March 2009
Postcard thank you
Thanks to everyone who's been sending us postcards to print up as our compliment slips. We've had some really nice ones so far and it's great to be able to re-use...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Other Stuff by Hannah on Wednesday 18 March 2009
Omitting the word
Its international women's day on Sunday. To celebrate this designers Conway + Young are starting a project called Omitting the word. For details, see the attachment. To contribute or if you...
Posted in Design, Thoughts, Other Stuff by Hannah on Tuesday 10 March 2009
Floodit
Floodit is an evening of live music and screen printing held at the Art Organisation in Nottingham. The first one is 28th March 2008 and is organised by Waste and...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Other Stuff by Hannah on Friday 6 March 2009
The Fuckface Book now for free
We have decided remove the Fuckface Book from sale and give it away for free. The reason for this is that it was a bit of an experimental project and I...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Other Stuff by Pete on Friday 27 February 2009
Birds comp posters
Last week we got an email from two lads asking if they could do some work for us. As part of their final year at Lincoln School of Art & Design...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Wednesday 25 February 2009
Birds T-shirt Design Competition
We would like to announce a T-shirt design competition. With Spring being (almost) around the corner we have decided on birds as a theme.
The design can be up to 4...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Thursday 19 February 2009
Your unwanted postcards or photos
If you've got a collection of old post cards or photos or just happen to have some hanging around that you don't want anymore send them to us! We're screen printing...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Ethics and Environment by Hannah on Thursday 19 February 2009
Know your phthalic acids
If you're considering using a plastisol ink that's phthalate-free, look into it a bit more. Some manufacturers get around this by changing the position of the phthalic acid carbon group....
Posted in Screen Printing, Ethics and Environment by Hannah on Tuesday 10 February 2009
Bilderklub
We met two of the members of Bilderklub for late afternoon coffee. Bilderklub is a collective comprising eight illustrators who are all freelance and sometimes collaborate on exhibitions together. Tina...
Posted in Design by Pete on Wednesday 4 February 2009The Black Book
This book was created by 45 different screen printers and took 3 years to create. Every page is a work of art. It is absolutely amazing, hence the 300€ price tag....
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Other Stuff by Pete on Wednesday 4 February 2009
Print your own money
Today we visited Centrifuga, a screen printing workshop on Mariannenplatz in Berlin. It’s connected to "Unter Druck", a club for the homeless as well as for the socially marginalized who...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Other Stuff by Hannah on Wednesday 4 February 2009
Druckwerkstatt
Today we visited the Druckwerkstatt (print workshop) at BBK in Kreuzburg, Berlin. It is in part of an old hospital and the workshop boasts 16000 square metres of space filled...
Posted in Other Stuff by Hannah on Wednesday 4 February 2009
Trans Europe Express
We took the sleeper train from Paris to Berlin and loved it. We got a 4-berth couchette, which was pretty cosy. The 6-berth must’ve been pretty tight as it’s...
Posted in Ethics and Environment, Other Stuff by Hannah on Tuesday 3 February 2009Paris walls
It may be a decadent, filthy, noisy city that’s disappeared up its own backside but fuck! Look at this mural!
Posted in Design, Other Stuff by Pete on Monday 2 February 2009
Badger Update
It's great that we've had such a positive response to our request for badgers. It's been so positive in fact that we've decided to scrap our previous deadline of the...
Posted in Other Stuff by Helen on Friday 30 January 2009
pesticide poisoning in the UK
We consider the effects of pesticide use in the developing world, which cause 20,000 deaths per year. That's why we only source fabrics that haven't had pesticides used on the crop....
Posted in Ethics and Environment by Hannah on Wednesday 28 January 2009
Waste not want not
I was bought the book 'Waste not want not' as a Christmas present. This book has 200 quite incredible ideas for recycling and reusing everyday things.
Examples include:
"Dustcover
Simply cut the flaps...
Recreation in Nottingham
If you're about in Nottingham check out the new shop Recreation, in the West End Arcade, which runs between Upper Parliament Street and Angel Row. Today was the grand...
Posted in Other Stuff by Hannah on Saturday 24 January 2009
Can you help us badger
We're still looking for people to join our crusade to distribute badges this month. Be ingenious; leave them on bus seats, put them in peoples pockets, leave them on counters, put...
Posted in Other Stuff by Hannah on Tuesday 2 December 2008
The best packaging
We source tote bags and tea towels from Bristol-based Bishopston Trading. They import organic cotton goods from rural India with the sole aim of fair trading.
AND everything is sent out...
Posted in Ethics and Environment, Other Stuff by Hannah on Tuesday 2 December 2008
Handy bedtime list
We have two new pillowcase designs on the website. Did you is a handy reminder list of things you should have done before going to bed. The Inspiration pillowcase...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Thursday 27 November 2008
Garage sale
Don't know much about this one but we like the posters. I don't know if it refers to a garage sale last June or next June but apparently they're Christmas presents...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Thursday 27 November 2008
In case of emergency
Today the Public Interest Research Centre will present the 'Climate Safety' report in Euston, London.
With Arctic sea ice melting away faster than anyone had predicted, the climate seems more sensitive than...
Posted in Ethics and Environment by Hannah on Thursday 27 November 2008
Hairy Humbug
Its that time of the year when we have to empty the shrapnel out of our pockets and i have to suck on a hairy humbug found at the bottom of...
Posted in Ethics and Environment, Other Stuff by Emma on Wednesday 26 November 2008Eco-friendly Couriers
We are constantly looking for more ways we can reduce our impact on the environment and today I started looking for an eco-friendly courier company.
After trawling the internet for a while...
Posted in Ethics and Environment, Other Stuff by Helen on Friday 21 November 2008
E-on powerless literally
We've just heard that the E-on offices (just round the corner from our studio) have had a power cut! Now that's karma for you. Apparently their poor call centre operatives are...
Posted in Ethics and Environment, Other Stuff by Hannah on Friday 21 November 2008Artist collectives in Berlin
Does anyone know of any interesting art collectives or screen printers in Berlin? In fact, we'd love to hear about any vegan restaurants/cafes, galleries and zine shops too. We're travelling over...
Posted in Other Stuff by Hannah on Friday 21 November 2008Can you help badger
During the month of December we'd like up to 100 people to help us distribute our mountain of badges at a modest 50 badges per person. Distribute them how ever you...
Posted in Other Stuff by Hannah on Wednesday 19 November 2008
You need hands
Hands are important at I Dress Myself. We've resisted the change to automatic printers because we appreciate the craft involved in the screen printing process. It means we are in control...
Posted in Screen Printing, Ethics and Environment, Thoughts by Hannah on Wednesday 19 November 2008
Brightly coloured totes
We've just received a sample pack of the new EarthPositive tote bags from Continental and are amazed by the colours. You can get them in black, red, khaki, green, purple, blue...
Posted in Screen Printing, Ethics and Environment by Hannah on Thursday 13 November 2008
Co-operative living and toasty feet
We've just moved house from a rented house to a (much smaller) detached flat that's part of Ned's housing cooperative in Nottingham. Co-operative life has been great so far and...
Posted in Ethics and Environment, Other Stuff by Hannah on Tuesday 11 November 2008Vertical Potatoes
I must admit I haven't had a chance to try this out yet (my food growing achievements so far amount to a herb box in my living room window and a...
Posted in Other Stuff by Helen on Friday 31 October 2008
Our very first newsletter
We finally sent out our first e-newsletter yesterday and got a really positive response to it. A big thanks to Alun from Multiple Design for making it look nice...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Other Stuff by Hannah on Wednesday 22 October 2008Permaprint ink tests
We collaborate with Colormaker Industries and recently got a tester pack of their new water based printing inks for paper and have decided to use these Permaprint inks for all...
Posted in Screen Printing, Ethics and Environment by Hannah on Tuesday 14 October 2008
Great Tape
We get through a lot of tape here as we are constantly rebuilding boxes to package up tee orders that we've printed for people, so it's great to find a tape...
Posted in Ethics and Environment, Other Stuff by Helen on Friday 10 October 2008
It's Nice That exhibition
Our 'Ode to Modbury Town' tote bag by Conway and Young is currently in the Original Format exhibition in Plymouth. It's the first in a series of exhibitions featuring a...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Monday 6 October 2008
Young Card Players at Origin
We love Laura McCafferty's contemporary textile artworks created using traditional techniques including hand-stitched applique and screen printing.
We worked in collaboration with Laura to produce limited edition screen prints for her exhibition...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Sunday 5 October 2008
Best of a bad situation
Unfortunately our landlord unwittingly signed a long-term energy contract with E-on. E-on are generally considered the worst offenders with plans to open a series of new coal-fired power stations. We were...
Posted in Ethics and Environment by Hannah on Friday 3 October 2008Daniel Eatock 'T' tees launched
This series of 'T' designs by Daniel Eatock are limited to only 50 tees of each design. But are you a courier, helvetica or akzidenz grotesk fan? Decisions, decisions.
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Wednesday 1 October 2008
Kingsnorth Activists Not Guilty
On September 10th, 6 activists were found not guilty of commiting the offense of criminal damage at the Kingsnorth Coal Fired power station in Kent owned by the energy company E-On....
Posted in Ethics and Environment by Pete on Thursday 18 September 2008
North Pole Island
This month, satellite pictures have confirmed that, due to global warming, the north pole is now officially an island for the first time in it's history since before the last ice...
Posted in Ethics and Environment by Pete on Thursday 18 September 2008
Tubular tees
We like the way Fitch have had their tees packaged up. They've all been tagged with screen printed swing tags, rolled up and put into poster tubes. With the labels on...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Other Stuff by Hannah on Saturday 30 August 2008
and fertilize the plants
Disposal instructions for Permaset inks suggest that waste water can be poured onto the garden - apparently the nutrients help fertilize the plants (although not every day). Obviously you have to...
Posted in Screen Printing, Ethics and Environment by Hannah on Friday 29 August 2008
Positive Change
We're in the midst of a large print run for Fitch. Ten of their young designers have designed a T-shirt and they're printing a limited edition run of each...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Saturday 16 August 2008
Take off your pants
We love these tees and the cause. Commando Festival is based in Edinburgh but you can join in from anywhere in the world.
The rules are very simple:
... Posted in Design, Other Stuff by Hannah on Tuesday 5 August 2008
From Heathrow to Kingsnorth
I spent a couple of days this week walking with the climate caravan, a group of people walking and cycling the 60 mile route from Heathrow to Kingsnorth in Kent, calling...
Posted in Ethics and Environment by Hannah on Thursday 31 July 2008
The Future of Ink on Paper
The Royal College of Art initiated a 3 year research project called RCA/Print Digital, which investigates the future of print and culminated in a limited edition, digitally-printed book called Control Print.
"If...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Thoughts, Other Stuff by Hannah on Friday 25 July 2008British Birds for sale
New limited edition prints by the Bonsai Projects are now available in our shop.
Posted in Design, Screen Printing, Other Stuff by Pete on Friday 25 July 2008
How big is yours
I've been looking at my carbon footprint using a really useful calculator at myfootprint.org. Apparently the average person in the UK has a carbon footprint of 48.1 gha (global...
Posted in Ethics and Environment by Hannah on Tuesday 22 July 2008
Organic EarthPositive tees cost less
From Monday our supplier is reducing the price of their EarthPositive tees for Men and Women. This is because their production process - from spinning to packing - is powered by...
Posted in Ethics and Environment by Hannah on Saturday 19 July 2008
A Century of Olympic Posters
As well as visiting the terribly nice people at Print Club London at the weekend, we also popped into the V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green to have a look...
Posted in Design by Pete on Wednesday 16 July 2008
Blisters on my fingers
35 Illustrators. 35 Edition and hand signed prints. 35 Pounds each. We went down to London at the weekend to go to the Blisters on my Fingers screen print exhibition organised...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Tuesday 15 July 2008
Windows...
Hulloo.........Emma here the new addition to the family.
Well i've been here for one and a half weeks now and what a breath of fresh air. I have my creative head back... Posted in Thoughts by Emma on Wednesday 9 July 2008
Saving a square mile of sea
The amount of plastic waste in the sea - an average of 46,000 bits of plastic float on or near the surface of every square mile of sea - is enough...
Posted in Ethics and Environment by Hannah on Saturday 5 July 2008
First class envelope
Even Daniel Eatock's envelopes are great. We received this in the post today and were suitably impressed (as we are with most of his stuff) with such an intelligent yet simple...
Posted in Design by Pete on Friday 4 July 2008
The wonder of the stapleless stapler
We came across the stapleless stapler about a month ago and it still gets me every day. A stapler...without staples. Brilliant!
You fold the papers over at the...
Posted in Design, Ethics and Environment, Thoughts by Hannah on Thursday 3 July 2008
Shelf it
We had a "getting organised in the studio" day today. Here's us with some new shelves.
Posted in Thoughts, Other Stuff by Hannah on Thursday 3 July 2008
A big welcome to Emma
We're happy to welcome Emma Godfrey to the I Dress Myself team this week. Emma has an impressive ten years screen printing experience and will work closely with Helen to run...
Posted in Screen Printing, Other Stuff by Hannah on Thursday 3 July 2008
Aldous Huxley and the ecological problem
I found this interview with Aldous Huxley the other day in which he talks about the ecological problem of an accelerating population and a limited environment.
For the relevant part... Posted in Ethics and Environment, Thoughts, Other Stuff by Pete on Monday 23 June 2008
Kate Moross prints at Pure Groove
This is one of a series of limited edition Kate Moross screen prints that we printed for an exhibition at Pure Groove in London. They've recently moved premises down the road...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Thursday 12 June 2008
Lots and lots of badges
We don't like flyers. They're a waste of paper and just end up in the bin. In fact we hate all things disposable. We like to create more permanent things -...
Posted in Screen Printing by Hannah on Wednesday 14 May 2008
Sneak preview Nick Saunders tee
Here's a sneak preview of the Nick Saunders tee 'cosmo'. Nick did work experience with us in Spring 2007 before he went off to get famous. Here he is sporting his...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Tuesday 13 May 2008
New website
Our new website is up and running and we love it. Have a look at our new products and be a part of the website by adding your comments to...
Posted in Screen Printing by Hannah on Monday 31 March 2008
Computer Arts Projects
We're featured in December's Computer Arts Projects' special issue on fashion. We worked with Nottingham design studio Multiple to produce a special tutorial on designing and screen printing a...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Tuesday 22 January 2008
Green Innovation Winners
We are joint winners of the BEST Experian Green Innovation Award for East Midlands along with Sherwood Press, also based in Nottingham. We won £2,500 AND Pete got to have...
Posted in Screen Printing, Ethics and Environment, Other Stuff by Hannah on Wednesday 12 December 2007
On the BBC England homepage
At least for a day.
Have a look at Pete printing some T-shirts in the feature Making an ethical t-shirt in its usual home on the BBC Nottingham website.
Organic Cotton forever
The World Health Organisation estimates that 20,000 people in the developing world die every year because of pesticide poisoning, much of which is used on cotton crops. Pesticide poisoning is also...
Posted in Screen Printing, Ethics and Environment by Hannah on Thursday 1 November 2007
Aah, we didn't win
One of three nominees for the Special Award for Innovation at the Nottingham Business Awards, we didn’t win. I was unable to go but Pete said it was a great...
Posted in Design, Other Stuff by Hannah on Friday 19 October 2007
An ode to Modbury Town
Our new limited edition of 150 Ode to Modbury tote bags are now available.
1.2 trillion plastic carrier bags are used every year, which equates to 300 carrier bags...
Nominated for the Nottingham Creative Business Awards 2007
We've been nominated for the Special Award for Innovation at the first ever Nottingham Creative Business Awards 2007. The ceremony will be held on 18th October at the Council House...
Posted in Design, Ethics and Environment by Hannah on Tuesday 2 October 2007
Art Prints at Designers Block 2007
We collaborated with design consultancy Casciani Evans Wood to produce a series of posters for their new Ink Posters brand that will be sold at design stores and via...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Wednesday 19 September 2007
Shrigley tee in Malmo exhibition
Our David Shrigley T-shirt 'The End' is being exhibited at the Malmo Konstall in Sweden as part of David Shrigley's exhibition there. Some of the limited edition of...
Posted in Design, Screen Printing by Hannah on Saturday 15 September 2007
Now only using eco-friendly water based inks
We're happy to announce that we’re using only eco-friendly water based inks now. We've been testing Permaset textile inks by Colormaker for the last few months and they've surpassed our...
Posted in Screen Printing, Ethics and Environment by Hannah on Tuesday 1 May 2007
Sandman feature
Sandman magazine (a music magazine for the North of England) have written a lovely feature about us in their March edition. You can read all their kind words here....
Posted in Screen Printing, Other Stuff by Hannah on Saturday 10 March 2007