Electric Sky by AJ Dimarucot - Nominated for 2009 Threadless People's Choice Bestee Award

Friends, this is "Electric Sky". Yan po ang nominated entry ng kaibigan natin at fellow Pinoy na si AJ Dimarucot on Threadless' 2009 Bestee Award. 20,000USD goes to the winner, so please help our friend by voting for his design. Plus, tingin ko, the best din naman talaga yung design nya. It also helps our economy if he wins! :)

Here's the link to vote:

http://www.threadless.com/bt/year,2009

Filipino Steals The Show on Project Runway

His name is Jay Sario and he's the first Phillipine born designer to ever make it to Project Runway. Just found out about this last week and I hope he's still in the running in this reality show contest. On the second episode, he won the design challenge to create a party look from a burlap potato sack. Best of luck to you Jay. We're very proud of you. Show the whole world the great talent of the Filipino fashion designers.

Kornit Breeze 921 DTG Direct to Garment Printer as seen at ISS Long Beach 2010

Big thanks to our friend Rodney Blackwell of the t-shirttforums.com for posting this. We now have another video of the long awaited Kornit Breeze 921 DTG printer. This video was taken during the recently concluded ISS Show in Long Beach California. I certainly hope I could attend one of these shows in the near future so that I could take my own pictures and videos.

As discussed by the Kornit personnel here, the Breeze sprays the pretreatment first, then wipes them off the shirt to help fix the shirt fibers and thus prevent "fibrellation" (not sure if I got the correct term). The Spectra heads were arranged so that the white ink sprays first, and when the CMYK heads reach the already printed white underbase, it starts printing also - so it almost looks like simultaneous white & CMYK printing and saves some printing times. As usual, a tunnel dryer is recommended or anything that would enable a good air flow when curing the shirt. This makes me wonder if a heat gun would work?

Here's the Technical Specs of this new machine:

Printing Method	Direct printing: Computer to textile.
Ink Type	Proprietary pigmented solvent and water-based ink.
Print Heads	Piezoelectric drop on demand ink jet heads. 5 colors,6 print heads, 256 nozzles per head.
Image Print Size	Standard: 14" x 18".
Colors	4 - CYMK process colors for white color garments. White ink for dark color garments.
Resolution	600x600, 600x1200 dpi.
Printed Substrate	Textile, cotton, cotton-polyester blends, lycra, viscose and more. Rigid and flexible materials optional.
Operating System	Windows XP.
Image Data	Bitmap, TIFF, EPS, PDF, JPEG and others.
Interface	Network, CD.
Power Requirements	Electrical supply: 230/110 VAC, 50/60Hz, 1 phase, W+N+PE
Recommended Accessories	Kornit QuickP RIP
Operating Condition	Temperature: 18oc-30oc. Humidity: 45%-95%.
Dimensions	1.14m x 1.5m x 0.7m
Number Of Operators	1

FULLY BOOKED's New Floor Tiles

I love visiting bookstores and Fully Booked is my local favorite. On one of my visits to their Gateway Mall branch, I noticed that they are renovating their store. Their new floor tiles really caught my attention. They looked like they are pages from a book. I liked them a lot and wonder how are they manufactured and "printed"? Also, could you tell from what book they got the pages from?

Bench Political Tees

Some call them Patriotic Tees, 'Pinas Tees or even Pinoy Tees. But these recent series of shirts from Bench certainly has the coming national election as the main topic. Messages such as "Give Love", "Gising Pilipinas", "I'm a Proud Registered Voter" and the direct-to-the-point "Make The Right Choice" are all well meant. I wonder who is the presidential candidate that Mr. Ben Chan is supporting this May?

Manny Villar Typography Shirt Design

I'm not sure if this is a parody and I'm not exactly a big fan of Sen. Manny Villar, but I think this design by our friend Dave is an example of a good typography design. Since this is a black print on an orange shirt, our laser light heat transfer paper was used.

Printing a Black Tee Using "Discharge-Fluid-Only" Mode on a Mimaki GP-604D T-shirt Printer

There's not so many videos on youtube showing the Mimaki GP-604D. Here's one, and the bonus is, it shows "discharge fluid only" printing on a black t-shirt. Note that when using discharge fluid, it is a must to wash the tee first before wearing as the discharge fluid contains chemicals that might irritate the skin. Printing with the "discharge fluid only" are very appropriate for "line art designs" as shown in the video.we love this because you get the softest hand possible.

Some Recent Lanyard Printing Jobs

Did a couple of lanyards these past few days. I think the customer did a good job on the designs. Tell me what you think?

Ateneo Back-to-Back Champion Tee

I realize that this should have been posted long time ago - last year in fact, because that was when the Ateneo Blue Eagles won their second consecutive UAAP basketball championship. I had some free time today and was trying to delete some old jpeg files from my hard drive. Hey, I think our friends from Unibersidad made a great design here so that it's better to post this late than never.

I also remember that we printed the shirts at the last minutes of the 4th quarter of the game. Since our shop in Farmers Plaza is near the Araneta Coliseum, the staff from Unibersidad were able to sell the shirts just as the Ateneo fans were exiting the Coliseum and celebrating. Well, this is just one of the advantages of the Digital Transfer Printing method - really rush jobs are possible. Also, noticed the many "photoshopped" effects that the graphic designer added to this design? Again, it's one of the plus points of Digital Transfer Printing.

Anyway, although late, I have to congratulate the Ateneo Blue Eagles again. Well done mga bossing. I hope this year will be LaSalle vs Ateneo again in the finals.

2010 NBA All Star Uniforms

Just saw the new uniforms that the NBA All Stars will wear in the All Star game next month. Looks like the design was based on the Dallas Mavericks uniforms. I guess we should expect that since this year's game will be hosted by the city of Dallas. The background big star in front and the "diamond like stars" at the back looks like they were sublimation printed. As usual, the large team name of EAST & WEST and the numbers were all applique embroidered, or tackle-twilled as some might call it. I noticed too that the NBA Star Logo used different metallic threads on the borders - silver for the East team & gold for the West team. Kudos to adidas for the very nice design. I wish I could watch the whole game live on TV this year. And I wish the East will win and SHAQ plays again. Off course, Dirk will have something to say with that!