Progress Report

Well, it's been a while people.... It's been a pretty hectic to start to the new year, we spent the first month preparing for our International tradeshow debut down in London Town . That involved alot of prep work and sorting out the range to be shown, getting printing done blah blah blah. Anyway, we got that done (we will add some pictures in a seperate post) and now we are cracking on with getting some new stuff done, a few reprints, some new designs and some general improvements. Keep your eyes peeled for all that. Human Being continues to be hugely popluar, we have already reprinted this 4 times in the space of 2 months. We seem to be spending way too much time in the post office these days with big bags full of swag (much to the annoyance of the post office staff!) So it's onwards and upwards.

Artist Spotlight - Anthony Aguero (Aliadotony)

We thought we would give you a bit of info about our latest designer Anthony Aguero. He's the man responsible for our latest jazzy creation 'The Worl In Your Eyes'. It has always been one of our aims to use other designers who's work we respect and like, so we thought it would be nice to start a little feature on the blog when we do use someone.

We've followed Anthony's work for a while now. Some of you may know him as Tomo77 or Aliadatony. He's got a great body of apparel work out there and is a multiple contest winner at both Threadless and Design By Humans so it's great to have been able to use his services.

Tony has been working in design industry for over 15 years. His experience is in the advertising world working over the years with mostly all product categories from cars, to fast food, technology and more. The last 4 years though he has been workingmore and more in the alternative design sector, apparel, skate decks and more, which are printed in Europe and USA.










Above are some images from his up and coming book titled '12x12' which he is hoping to get printed up. There are plenty more images from this and his other work on his website
You can check it out here:

http://www.tomo77.net/

NEW DESIGN - The World In Your Eyes

So you may have noticed already that we have a new design in, well here it is again in case you missed the magic...

It’s a graphical treat of trippy imagery hailing all the way from Costa Rica, courtesy of Mr Anthony Ageuro.

http://www.origin68.com/the-world-in-your-eyes

New Storenvy Store

Storenvy this week launched their new social shopping community....

"In a nutshell Storenvy is _the_ social online store and shopping community. On one side, Storenvy is a series of online stores run by independent sellers. "The little guys."

On the other side, Storenvy is a network of shoppers who can shop across all of those stores at once, interacting with each other by watching what notes and ratings they leave on products and stores throughout the site. It's like following your friends and style icons on a shopping spree, watching what they pick up and what they actually buy."

We decided to give it a try and see if it creates anymore traffic for us. It won't ever replace our standalone store but it's free so it's got to be worth a shot. It may pull in some more sales from the good ol' USofA

Check it out http://origin68.storenvy.com/

Computer Arts Project Magazine features Origin68

We were approached by the guys at Comupter Arts Projects asking if we would like to be featured in their "How To Launch Your Own Streetwear Brand" edition of the magazine. Obviously we said yes.

The magazine features lots of great articles highlighting how to get into the world of streetwear and design. Our stuff made it into the Showcase section as well as having one of our quotes make it into the Big Question section. We did send them a pic of the two of us together, however they decided to cut poor old Harry out of it! He's still crying about it as we write this.

If you're a budding entrepreneur and fancy launching your own label then this is a great place to start, there's some great articles about getting stuff printed (by White Duck Screenprint), designing your own store (By Shred Clothing) as well as examples of great existing stores, designers and illustrators such as 123 Klan, Fl@33, Sixpack, Beautiful Decay.

Here's some pics from it.


Front Cover


Big Question

Paris'68 in the Blogs

We've had plenty of bloggers feature our site. All of these sites are well worth checking out too. Some are dedicated to tshirts other's to good design in general.

Paris'68 on Iloveyourtshirt (tshirt blog from France)
Paris'68 on Coty Gonzales (one man tshirt blogging machine)
Paris'68 on HideYourArms (UK based tshirt blog)
Paris'68 on Duty (cool designery stuff)
Paris'68 on DirtyMouse (food for designer's dirty mouse)

NEW DESIGN - Paris'68

Last week we droppoed our latest design. It's a bit of an hommage to the Paris uprisings in 1968.

The French aren’t stupid. When they don’t like stuff they get up off their arses and kick up a stink about it. In fact, they’ll pretty much go on strike before you can say "improved workers conditions".

May 1968 was one of those iconic moments where the people came together and took on the powers that control them and through not inconsiderable sacrifice changed things for the better. We made a tshirt about it.

You can find it here www.origin68.com/paris68