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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
The 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
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
prices 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
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
Jon 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Last 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 2009Competition 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Daniel 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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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