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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
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
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 2010New 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 2010Net 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
Spring 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
The 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
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
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
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
gone 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
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
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
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 2009Postcard 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
The 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
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
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
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 2008Great 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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