Sending out holiday cards can be surprisingly tricky. No one wants their cards to feel contrived, lost in a huge pile of generic, Happy-Holiday wishes. Recently Vita Visual and BBP Partners teamed up to create a piece that is sure to leave a lasting impression with their clients. (more…)

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The 10th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach takes place December 1st-4th. Over 260 leading galleries from North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa will take part, showcasing works by more than 2,000 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. We’ll be there all 4 days to soak up some brilliant art and the Miami sun. We also printed an arsenal of custom projects, here’s a breakdown.

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Foil stamping is a great accent to any piece, and can be the perfect finishing touch around the holiday season. Aspen Santa Fe Ballet made a massive 6×11.5″ postcard on 12 pt. Uncoated Cardstock with a custom gold foil stamp to promote their upcoming performance of The Nutcracker. Sure, you’ve seen foil stamping on that holiday card you got from Aunt Marlene last year, or in the latest design magazine, but this age-old technique is still mysterious to many. (more…)

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This month’s Juxtapoz Magazine – the celebrated, underground, urban and contemporary art mag — has an awesome 10-page feature on artist/illustrator Dan Seagrave. Best known for his seminal Death Metal album covers for bands, like, Entombed, Malevolent, Creation, Morbid Angel and Suffocation, Seagrave has transcended Metal stereotypes to create an impressive body of dreamy, macabre works. You can purchase his amazing prints on his Indiemerchstore page. (more…)

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Jakprints had the opportunity to be a part of a very unique project for the Brooklyn Museum of Art. When their Vishnu exhibit was in it’s initial planning stages they were trying to come up with an interactive way to explain Vishnu’s many avatars. Vishnu is one of Hinduism’s three major deities and the exhibit contains around 170 paintings, sculptures, and ritual objects that were made in India between the fourth and 20th centuries.

The solution was setting up a series of iPad kiosks to help guide visitors through the show. But first guests must choose which avatar to explore and take a tag with the coordinating image on it, that’s where we came into play.

Jeremiah Boncha a graphic designer at the museum and long time Jakprints customer suggested they use Favicards to print the avatar images on. After the pieces were printed, cut and rounded corners were added we placed a 3/16″ drill hole in the top left corner and attached an elastic band. Allowing visitors to place their specific card around their wrist as they explored the avatar they chose.

These excellent avatars were illustrated by Sanjay Patel you can find more of his stunning work here: http://www.gheehappy.com

These bins contain all the different avatars to choose from. Visitors are encouraged to explore as many as they would like. This fascinating exhibit is currently open and runs through October 2nd at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in Brooklyn, NY. For more information you can check out http://www.brooklynmuseum.org

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Shelf Life Clothing Co., based right here in good old Cleveland, Ohio, is the brain child of designer Brian Kirby. His shirt designs are inspired by a wide range of pop-culture imagery as well as classic Japanese, Hong Kong and Bollywood cinema, 1960s spy movies, vintage rock album artwork, WWII aviation art, Spaghetti Westerns, Eurotrash cinema and professional sports. Shelf Life Clothing Co. makes a point to pay tribute to often forgotten B-movie classics while also lampooning common place ideas. Shelf Life’s shirts have been seen on many media outlets such as ESPN, CNN/Sports Illustrated.com, E! Network’s series “Married To Rock“, Season 8 of “American Idol” as well as on the backs of Hong Kong movie producer Mike Leeder, action choreographer John Kreng, and producer Bey Logan.

Here’s a few words from Brian Kirby about why he chose Jakprints to produce his apparel:

I started using Jakprints six or seven years ago for business cards and tri-fold brochures, and when one of my websites became an Internet hit, I started experimenting with different tee designs to sell through the site. I’ve tried other printing companies and silkscreening on my own, but the quality of the silkscreened images from Jakprints is the best I’ve found, and allows me to be more creative by using finer halftone images and other design elements that I couldn’t achieve elsewhere. Working with everyone there has been great; they’ve helped me not only with printing, but also with finding the right quality and color tees that give my brand and designs a signature look and feel. I’m lucky to have Jakprints nearby in Cleveland, and I absolutely love how resourceful their whole operation is–they even shred unused remnant tees to make dog beds to donate to animal shelters. I’m happy with the end result for my brand and thankful for the creative freedom that all of Jakprints’ printing options provide.
These are examples of the apparel Jakprints has had the pleasure of printing for Shelf Life Clothing Co. that display a wide range of Jakprints’ printing techniques. Everything from natural discharge to soft vibrant, center chest and full front graphic placement, two color prints to many color prints, Shelf Life has it all. Also, all of Shelf Life’s designs are ran on 100 percent ring-spun soft cotton or organic cotton shirts.

We truly feel these are some of the coolest designs we’ve ever produced.

Recently Shelf Life Clothing has experimented with All Over Shirt Printing and returned excellent results. Brian’s design style and use of vibrant colors mixes perfectly with the process of printing these shirts.

All of the shirts shown here can be purchased at http://shelflifeclothing.com

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Recently, Jakprints had the pleasure of printing apparel for Xyience and the UFC fighter Dan “The Outlaw” Hardy. For those of you don’t know Dan Hardy, he’s an English-born fighter who started training in Taekwondo at the age of six. He’s trained in China with the Shaolin monks, and, after realizing the importance of grappling skills in MMA, cross trained in many other styles of martial arts. Dan has held the Cage Warriors Welterweight World Title, and he is the current Light-Welterweight Champion and the UK Storm British Champion.

Dan’s shirt was printed on a Men’s Alstyle Adult Short Sleeve T-Shirt. The front has a full chest graphic placement with plastisol ink.

The Xyience logo on the back has an upper back graphic placement, also printed with plastisol ink.

Dan will be competing this Saturday, March 26th, in UFC Fight Night 24 at the Key Arena in Seattle, Washington. His opponent is American-born fighter Anthony Johnson whose record is currently eight wins, three losses. We at Jakprints wish him the best in this weekend’s bout and look forward to doing more work for Dan and the Xyience team!

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