Screen printing wallets

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This is from a 12-hour screen printing session with Josh in his garage. We used a bunch of nature elements from our own photography, remixed illustrations and some recombined photo elements. Everything is printed with water-based inks (which are more environmentally friendly than plastisol/oil-based inks) on 100% cotton fabric.

Here are some of the new wallets, they’re $50:

One-of-a-kind wallets are still cooking…

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Hey everyone,

We’re working out the kinks in our wallet process right now but I wanted to post some photos of new one-of-a-kind wallets. This is what we printed in Josh’s garage in the timelapse video (which will be posted when Josh adds music to the piece.)

Here are some wallet designs before they get sewn into wallets:
one of a kind, screen printed fabric before they are sewn into unique wallets

Don’t despair! I know we’re taking forever with the wallets, but we are sure they will be worth the wait.

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New t-shirts from read and write

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Long time friend and fellow Resist Today artist Jay Giroux just came out with a bunch of new threads for a collection called “Read and write.”

This is my absolute favorite of the lot, I like those stripes so much!

I’m really into the subtle details in Jay’s text. He’s been hard at work on a batch of new images so go pay him a visit. More new shirts here: http://www.merchline.com/readandwrite/

Powered by Merchline — Nate’s a friend of ours and super nice guy; and he’s in the Tampa area!

Print Ready - St. Pete art show

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Here’s the flyer for a show Red Labor is in this week. It’s a print show:

Not many of us have extra cash lying around these days — especially for a painting! But “Resist a world without art” we say, and thankfully our Florida art friends Nessie and Becca (Nessie + Becca = Bessie!) are throwing a wonderful art/print show in St. Pete this Thursday.

“PrintReady is a show that acknowledges that the art world is currently taking a beating, but refuses to bend over and accept it.”

Come out to the Nova 535 Art Lounge and check out the printwork, photography and apparel — ready for immediate consumption and instant home display!

PrintReady will showcase new and previously created works, all eagerly offered for sale, and at prices that nod respectively at our shallow pockets. Featured artists include: Brandon Dunlap, Daniel Williams, SmileMaker, Mike DeLach, Chris Parks, Erik Jones, Pat Fatica, Joel Cook, Heather Dykstra, Victoria Topor, Nick Gomez, Bask, Andrew Spear, Melisa Taylor and Red Labor.

Read more about the show on the Bessie Arts myspace page

PrintReady
Opens: Thursday, February 12th — 6pm to midnight
Up until: March 12th

Nova 535 Art Lounge, St. Pete, Florida

Q: Where have we been? A: Working on wallets…

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The backstory

For the last two years we’ve worked with about 7 independent seamstresses to sew our screen printed sheets of fabric into some pretty unique and interesting wallets and pillows. Some were in Michigan, others in Florida, and we found most of these talented folks on craftster.org and craigslist. But let’s be real — not a lot of people want to sew hundreds of the same thing over and over and over… So for the last few months we’ve been researching manufacturing our wallets so we can make more consistent wallets in bigger quantities quickly.

Wallet manufacturing

We’re still refining our pattern and making some decisions, but things are going along nicely thanks to a very wonderful person named Barkha from Barkha’s custom sourcing. Since we’re artists and not clothing designers we had no idea what custom sourcing was, but it turns out that Barkha has a lot of great contacts all over the world for fabrics and manufacturing. We’ll keep you updated on the progress, but here are a few test wallets that look great so far. I think we’re going for a cleaner look now, so the final ones won’t have surged edges.

Manufactured samples

the front size of a custom manufactured/sewn wallet sample by Barhka's custom sourcing

the credit card slots on our custom manufactured/sewn wallet sample

A few new wallets from a local seamstress

unique screen printed robot wallet and political art corporate welfare wallet

more shots of the new wallets

these wallets were sewn by our local seamstress in tampa, florida

screen printed details in the billfold area look really cool and interesting
The screen printed billfold is a really nice detail we love about our wallets.

New wallets soon…

I know we always say this! That’s why we’re working on manufacturing, so we can solve our “out of stock” woes. Look for new screen printed wallets soon.

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And what’s up with the registered mark next to OBEY? It looks weird, and seems kind of regressive, no? I wonder what the motivation is.

New art at RedLabor.com

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We just updated RedLabor.com with a lot of new art to look at.

Check it out and let us know if you see any images you wish were available on Resist Today as a t-shirt, wallet or print.

A still from an upcoming video

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Two weeks ago Josh and I spent 12 hours in his garage screen printing sheets of fabric, which are now getting cut and sewn by our wonderful seamstress, Annette. She’s sewing a whole batch of new goodies for us. Does the sound of one-of-a-kind wallets and pillows appeal to you? Ha, then you’ll be in for a treat come the new year!

We’ll be posting a super rad time-lapse video of us screen printing soon, but in the mean time check out this still photo from the shoot. We rigged Josh’s Nikon D300 about our work table in the garage. The light during the day was excellent as you can see here:

Screen printing fabric for wallets and pillows in Josh's garage

Wait till you see the fabric! We’re both really psyched.

New Mr. Lemur shirt by Eleanor

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Two nights ago I had to drive to Tampa to meet Josh super late, I think I got to his house around 9:40 p.m., and this was on a work night! Ugh. So we armed the camera with a flash and took a giant 4 foot tall softbox around and snapped a few pics. Here are the good ones.

Dave in the garage, preparing for the shoot. It doesn't require much preparation, as you can see...

Dave in the garage, preparing for the shoot. It doesn't require much preparation, as you can see...

Here we are testing the lightbox and flash inside Josh's house.

Here we are testing the lightbox and flash inside Josh's house.

Josh wearing the new guys lemur t-shirt by Eleanor Grosch

Josh wearing the new guys lemur t-shirt by Eleanor Grosch


And here's dave with some funny lookin' hair!

And here's dave with some funny lookin' hair!

Ah yeah, meet Mr. Lemur! A fine organic American Apparel tee. A hat tip to Brandon since printing the Lemur on a guys shirt was his idea!


contact Josh & Dave: info@resisttoday.com