Boomer's PPD Blog

I'm thinking about getting a batch of tshirts made to sell
Online, but as is quite often the case making a full batch of t's is time consuming and expensive. So I've been looking at a few places such as Factory 4 and others, and I found a small place in Leeds that does short runs of stuff, called St. Inks.

Now I may just be naive, but I expected quote a lot from a professional screen printers. Turns out it's literally 2 guys in a basement. And that's not an exaggeration. They're set up under some massive warehouse just a little way from the bus station. It's proper, proper ghettO. You have to walk through an entire corridor of basements to get to it too. It was like walking to my death.

But they're sound guys who work elsewhere and do screen printing in their spare time so I may have use for them yet, and they're not particularly expensive either.

Got some crazy new ideas for my website, along an infographics type path. One is a crazy wheel where all the thumbnails ring a central section kinda like a colour wheel, and when you click each of the various the image of the work fades in to the central circle. It'd be mental to try and make and youd have to have your photographs right but oh well.

The more realistic alternative is a very stripped back approach, kinda like taking all the detail out of an indexhibit site and having the navigation along the left but written vertical.

I dunno, just spit balling. Here's some sketches see if it makes anymore sense:

Made some changes to my cargo collective site. Nothing major, just changed the templates and got rid of all the super high quality images that were taking up all my space. Wanted to keep it clean and simple though so theres not a massive amount of extra faff.

I've been having a bit of a fight in myself as to what to put on my website/cargo etc recently. I've been thinking about how you send a pdf portfolio thats just a taster of you and your work and the main focus is on the work when you go visit, so i've been thinking the same about the whole web presence thing - how much should i have on there? all of it? half? inbetween my printed and pdf portfolios?

So for my new look Cargo I've taken out a few projects and a few images from others as well.

So plans for Easter are as follows:

1. Email 10+ studios or designers about their practice for design context book

2. Arrange a visit to at least one to see the day to day running and make new contacts

3. Visit 3 printers of varying size - S: St Inks, M: Target Print, L: Duffields

That's just the relevant stuff, a corresponding post for work is on dp.

I play a lot of Call Of Duty (there's a point to this, I promise) and in the newest on Black Ops you can create, using hundreds of icons and colours, your own 'flag' or personal crest. Mine has been for a long time now a yellow smiley face with a massive red cross through it. I'm thinking of adopting it as my logo. Its a bit risky. And not particularily approproiate ha but still, I like it.