In the past week, we’ve managed to hit both coasts while still having a great presence in our beloved Cleveland, OH.

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  Scene Magazine’s Very Vodka featuring Finlandia

  Friday, September 23, 2011

  Cleveland, OH

  We love supporting local events, especially when it helps out our good friends at Scene Magazine. The Warehouse District was alive with martinis, vodka, beer, burlesque dancers and cupcakes — such a great time!

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  AIGA Cleveland Presents Merge Mashup

  Friday, September 23, 2011

  Cleveland, OH

  We’re proud members of the graphic design community — that’s why we’re Gold Partners of the Cleveland AIGA. Merge Mashup was awesome night, combining design and business. We left filled with creative energy, inspired to start our next project. How about you?

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  Dewey Beach Music Conference

  September 22-24

  Dewey Beach, DE

  A fantastic, three-day music conference in beautiful Dewey Beach. Jakprints is always looking for opportunities to help musicians market their band affordably and DBF didn’t disappoint.

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  Tarfest

  Sunday, September 25

  La Brea Tar Pits, CA

  When longtime friends approached us about sponsoring this event, we couldn’t resist. In its ninth year, the free indie art and music celebration was fantastic with live music, live art mural installations, biergarden, food trucks and a kids interactive corner.

As always, we were stoked to help create and produce much needed pieces for each event. For Very Vodka’s VIPs, we screen printed two colors on a black Tultex (0803LB) Tote Bag – a clean, classy look. Dewey Beach went all out with three military-inspired bags [Rothco Classic Paratrooper Shoulder bag (9128), Rothco Olive Drab HW Classic Messenger Bag (9148), Authentic Pigment Canvas Field Bag (1902)] and a distressed one color print, they created the ultimate old-but-new bag.

Tarfest got to work with our entire company: large format banners on outdoor vinyl; promo Posters and Postcards; T-Shirts for all five bands; VIP Laminate Passes and some amazing Full Color Stickers.

AIGA · Bags · Cleveland · Festival · Messenger Bags · Posters · T-shirts · Tote Bags · VIP passes

Our Jak Of All Trades Fest set a goal to raise money for our local charities and neighbors — MidTown Cleveland and the Community Greenhouse Partners — and we did it! We raised $2000 for each charity with our raffle prizes and beer donations. We were so excited about the donation that we had to print big checks, just like Ed McMahon!

What an amazing feeling to gather so much support for these wonderful charities and for Cleveland!

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Naturally, if it involves art and music, Jakprints wants to be a part of it. So, we were beyond stoked to be the official print provider for ORANJE — Indiana’s premiere art and music exposition.

ORANJE is an interactive event that showcases contemporary art and music within a stimulating, urban setting. In 2002, Adam Crockett and Ryan Hickey’s shared passion for art, music, experience and creativity gave birth to the first ORANJE; ten years later, it has grown into a regional powerhouse. ORANJE has showcased the talents of 250 fine artists, 125 musicians and 30 independent film makers; and, boasts an annual attendance of more than 3000!

Indy-based, full-service agency Matchbook Creative  were the brains and brawn behind the silver-and-orange themed 2011 collateral. They’ve worked with ORANJE for a number of years and devised the clean design — along with an eye-catching color scheme of Pantone Silver 877 C Spot color and bright CMYK orange — to celebrate ORANJE’s tenth anniversary. Matchbook did a phenomenal job promoting the event with promo postcards and posters; a limited-edition poster; 18-page onsite guide book; tickets with numbering; official ORANJE t-shirts; and custom VIP passes.

Our booth saw lots of traffic throughout the day, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t slink away to check out Indiana’s finest (and stuff our faces with Natalie Pipkin’s awesome mini cheesecakes from The Mini Bar).

Take a peek, here’s a few of the über talented people:

• Great art was everywhere, like, Jonathan Foerster’s otherworldly compositions, Kyle Spear’s unbelievable photography, Justin Schwab’s studies on time, and we’re now the proud owners of one of Cameron Oehler’s Triforce End-Grain Cutting Boards because… well, because it’s Zelda, that’s why.
• We can’t forget the bands! With so many fantastic musicians it felt like a certain Alfred Hitchcock flick: Irene & Reed’s sultry piano pop; new new wave Beta Male; Indy’s Paramore-esqe Neon Love Life; and the quirky jascha. were some of the acts we had the chance to catch while running around; definitely check ‘em out!
• Dan Trachtenberg’s Portal: No Escape had the internet buzzing a few weeks ago, but seeing it on the big screen was unforgettable.

Can’t wait for ORANJE 2012!

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We are happy to say that, despite the oppressive heat, Jak Of All Trades Fest rocked Cleveland this past Labor Day Weekend. We packed our one-day event with all things Jak and perfectly represented our love of skateboarding, art, music, fashion and bicycles. Local food trucks served up their best dishes while our complimentary beer and water kept more than 1500 attendees cool. There is no way we could have pulled off the event without the help of our headlining sponsor HP, our media sponsor Scene Magazine, our event coordinator Angela Hetrick, over 80 local sponsors or all of the amazing models and volunteers.

Skateboarding

Spectators and skaters alike enjoyed our skateboarding street course, while DJ’s Rob Ortenzi and Mister Bradley P provided the soundtrack. We collaborated with Public Square Group on a green-screen photo booth to help raise money for Crooked River Skate Park – bringing in more than $700 to help fund Cleveland’s very own world-class skate park!

Vendor Village

The Vendor Village was abuzz with visitors and vendors. Just to name a few: We had Atom Bomb Tattoo and Voodoo Monkey Tattoo available for walk-up consultations, while Foodgazi, Little Korboose, Scene Magazine and Washington, D.C., guest Sarkhead displayed their products and services. The savior of the day was Big Fun; their box full of squirt guns, enjoyed by young and old, was definitely a relief in the hot sun!

Art Mural + Acitvities

A big thank you to Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School for their event; Faber-Castell for the amazing Interactive Art Tent; all the artists that contributed to The William Rupnik Gallery Live Mural Art Installation sponsored by Fifth Third Bank; and Millcraft Paper Co. for providing the semi-truck for our art gallery that showcased many of our talented employees, customers and friends.

Tours

More then 500 people got a behind-the-scenes look at what makes Jakprints tick. We gave away 700 event shirts showcasing our exclusive soft vibrant inks with a 10-color print.  If you didn’t have a chance to take a tour, give us a call — we’d love to show you around!

Fashion Show

Without a doubt, our fashion show was the highlight of the day. More than 125 people watched our outstanding models from Ohio Model And Talent with hair and makeup by Crazy Mullets and Savvy Salon.  Tyler Mills of FDZ Clothing offered to DJ for the show as we showcased great boutiques and clothing lines. The styles seen were provided by: Banyan Tree, Dredgers Union, Brigade, Turnstyle, Bodek & Rhodes, indiemerchstore, Independent Trading Company, Shelf Life Clothing, Strhess Clothing, Stheart, iLTHY, FDZ Clothing, Western Evil and Angapunk.

Music

The live music stage — hosted by our emcees Brad Robinson and Michael “Bruzzie” Nassif of the Fuzzy Stones — kept things jamming. Local bands BattleStar, Two Hand Fools, Ultra Ultra, Cypher, Burger Boys and Megachurch showed that the Cleveland music scene is never dull. All of the six bands that played contained Jakprints employees as members!

Bicycles

If you rode your bike to the event with Joy Machines Bike Shop and Crank Set Rides, you know we offered a free bike valet throughout the day. A special thanks to Ohio City Whips for braving the hot sun and heat while keeping our bikes safe!  The Pedal Republik of Cleveland showed us what bike polo is all about, with pick-up games against rival teams from Pittsburgh and Columbus. They were also happy to give beginner lessons to whoever was interested.

Charity + Raffle

The excitement was palpable as we raffled off over 50 different and amazing prizes throughout the day. When it was all said and done, we raised $4,000 for our sponsor charities MidTown Cleveland and Community Greenhouse Partners. The food trucks also raised charity donations — StrEat Mobile Bistro raised $100 for the Cleveland Food Bank; Umami Moto raised $100 for the Berea Animal Rescue Fund; and Dim And Den Sum raised $75 for the Goodwill Industries Of Greater Cleveland. Together, we emptied 27 kegs of beer and had zero injuries!  If you donated a raffle prize, manned a table, took photos or helped out in anyway we are extremely grateful! If you were there to enjoy the day we hope you had as much fun as we did!

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