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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A QR code, which is short for Quick Response, is a two dimensional bar code readable by a QR code reader or smart phone. The code is made up of black modules arranged on a white background. The information encoded can be text, a URL or other information. Some smart phones such as Blackberry and Droid come equipped with QR Code readers. Others like the iPhone can download a free QR Code reader app to scan these quirky bar codes.

QR Codes were originally developed by Toyota subsidiary Denso-Wave in 1994 for use in the automobile industry as a way to track parts in vehicle manufacturing.  QR Codes are now used in a wide range of ways including commercial and print ads to link people to a products web page.  It can also be used on a business card to add a vCard to the persons’s device.  The vCard is a file format that is standard for electronic business cards that can contain a name, address, email, phone number, photos, and even audio clips. Users can also generate their own QR code by using one of the many free QR code generation sites.

Recently QR codes have become more common in marketing circles and have been used in both traditional and interactive campaigns. Some places where QR codes have been use include: billboard ads, in-store displays, event ticketing and tracking, trade-show management, business cards, print ads, contests, direct mail campaigns, websites, email marketing, and couponing just to name a few. QR Codes are valuable to marketers because it gives them the ability to measure response rates very accurately.

We are seeing more and more projects here at Jakprints come through with QR Codes, one of which is the shirt pictured above. This was produced for BPG-Werks and the QR Code on the back the shirt.  When scanned it will take you to the Facebook page for their product the DTV Shredder, an all terrain vehicle that is a combination of a skateboard and a tank!

Here are some more examples of how QR Codes can be incorporated into printed materials like Stickers, Custom postcards, Favicards and Mini Business Cards. All are great examples of how to turn your project into and interactive experience for the client base you’re aiming to reach.  QR Codes can be placed on virtually any print product and they add a level of connectivity that is limited only by your imagination!

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Have you ever had an idea for a shirt design but wanted to produce just one?  Now you can with Jakprints’ All Over Shirt Printing, a process that lets you print a full color design over the entire garment.

With All Over Shirt Printing you end up with a vibrant image that has a completely soft feel!  For the best quality orders are produced using 100% poly fabric apparel.  The process is simple, after your artwork is printed with a special ink on high release paper it’s  transferred to the garment using a large heat press.  The heat press vaporizes the print and that gas bonds with the poly fibers of the garment. Our all over printed shirts will not crack, peel or flake off and they have a permanent print that is not only vivid but is soft to the touch too!

Some of the benefits of ordering All Over Shirt Printing are no set-up cost, no minimum quantities and no art work limitations.  We can print on the front and back of the garment and the quantity is up to you since you can produce one or many.

Interested in getting your own 100% custom made all over printed shirt?  Just go to our All Over Shirt Printing product page to create yours now!

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We’re proud to announce that Jakprints’ Screen-Printing Production Manager, Jeff Weisenberg has authored another article in Printwear, the leading industry/trade magazine for apparel embellishment.

Jeff’s latest article is featured in the August 2010 issue and is entitled “Don’t Fear The Fleece”. Within it he shares some printing tips and techniques he’s developed through the years, and talks about dealing with the various problems and pitfalls that can arise when printing on hoodies and sweats.

It’s another great read from Jeff, as he is able to tackle these technical subjects, while injecting a some personality and humor into it. Click here to check out the Printwear article.

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We’re proud to announce the launch of Jakprints Touch & Feel online store! Touch & Feel is a collection of printed and embellished sample products specifically created to showcase a variety of techniques.

Through Touch & Feel, we’re hoping to inspire creativity as well as educate people about techniques and stocks. We want customers to have confidence in what they’re ordering, and make sure they are getting exactly what they want.

Lauren catches a low-impact, “Eco-Monkey” bamboo-tee as it emerges from the dryer.

Anthony makes sure everything is going well with the hybrid-inks on “Digi-Grill.”

“Solid-Gold” (a soft-opaque ink t-shirt) getting a fresh coat of metallic foil.

“Glow Girl” is printed in hybrid-ink and features a glow-ink overprint.

Josh checks out “Burn-Out”, a shirt that showcases our discharge ink.
Check out more samples, stocks, and techniques at the Touch & Feel Store!

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