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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 2010Preview 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
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
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 2010Thanks 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
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
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 2009Our 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
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
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
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
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 2008Windows...
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
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
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