Samples Box

Here's our nifty new samples box. If you're a shop owner/retailer and have an interest in stocking our tees then drop us a line and maybe we will send you one of these little beats in the post.

Grotto Shop

This Christmas a selection of Origin68 shirts will available in a new pop up store located in Manchesters Chinese Arts Centre. This seasonal treat goes by the name of Grotto Shop and provides a space for Manchesters finest designery/crafty types to sell their wares in the lead up to Christmas. It's a great place to get the best, unique, Christmas presents, cards and wrapping paper whilst supporting local artists and small businesses.

Origin68 Featured In Torso Book

So we recently discovered by chance that one of our tshirts made it into the Torso book that came out a while back. We had no idea until we were having a flick through a copy at Margin that belonged to the guys from The Affair (nice guys and super nice tees by the way). It's our Anthony Aguero design 'The World In Your Eyes' so it must have been the man himself who sent them in. There are a few of his other designs in there. Anyway, we thought it was pretty cool and worth showing off about!.

Here's some pics. If you like tees in general it's worth a purchase as there's a tonne of cool stuff in there.

Hot Drink Mugs

We've all gone a bit Ronseal with this. And I don't mean perma-tanned. Oh no, it's a mug that does exactly what it says on the tin.. I mean ceramic, er mug. It's got hot drink in it innit. By the way ours is a tea, white with one sugar if you're putting the kettle on.
WARNING: Contains Hot Liquids.

Available in the shop www.origin68.com

Here's some interesting tea facts for you too Uk Tea Council website

Digital Arts Spotlight

This is pretty old news now but it should be on here. Our Si Scott Dove tshirt was featured in the October issue. Man that's old. Anyway, it was there, there's some pictures to prove it and everything.

Dove by Si Scott

This shirt needs no introduction...Ohh, go on then.

This design is by the now legendary Si Scott and displays a dove, the symbol of peace, in his indomitable highly detailed illustrative hand drawn style. If you haven't come accross Si's work over the last few years you must have been living under a rock, he's pretty much become the grand master of intricate swirly designs. We're really proud to bring you this one!

After gaining a degree in graphic design at Buckinghamshire University College, Si Scott used his skills to develop a characteristic style which combines hand-inked and penned artwork with modern typography.That style has won him a prestigious and ever-expanding client list, including Vogue, Nike, Polydor, Guinness, MTV, Absolut, Tiffany and Co, Miller and American Express.

New Stockist - Dais Boutique, Huddersfield

We have another brand new stockist. In fact we've had a few more of late, we'll do them one at a time though to keep things simple... This time it's in Huddersfield and goes by the name of Dais Boutique. We met Dais at last February's Margin tradeshow down in London. Alan who runs Dais boutique found us worthy of a spot in his brand new venture. The store aims to appeal chiefly to young males and females with “classic, contemporary, innovative and unconventional” fashions providing an alternative to the high street chain stores.

We're pleased to be selected as one of the brands to grace the rails of Dais boutique and we wish Alan all the best with the new store. If your in or around Huddersfield then pop along and see it for yourselves.

Shopping Bags

As you may know...or not know, the week currently flying by is Earth week. We've decided to save you on a plastic bag or two by bringing you another slice of organic heaven. It's the good old fashioned tote bag, perfect for carrying those veggies home from the greengrocer's. Here's a few pics of it sat on my sofa. We were gonna bring you another shirt but it's been delayed until next week, it can be like some kind of post Earth Week type thing.

Find it here: http://www.origin68.com/shoppingbag

New Stockist - Junkfunk, Brighton

We have a brand new stockist down in luvverly Brighton. The guys from Junkfunk are located in the fashionable North Laine quarter of Brighton. Their quirky concept store specializes t-shirts, design, books, art, gifts and all things creative. They have a website of thier own which is well worth checking out if your'e shopping for nice things.


https://www.junkfunk.com/

MARGIN Tradeshow London

Well Margin was a pretty big deal for us guys. It's a now well established streetwear and emerging labels tradeshow which has been the spring board for many now well established brands such as Your Eyes Lie, EIO Clothing and Lazy Oaf, all of whom we admire. We didn't really know what to expect as it was our first time but it turned out to be great. It's basically an opportunity to get your gear seen by hundreds of buyers, retailers, boutique owners, bloggers and journo's. We made some great contacts and had a great deal of interest. It was definately worth all the stress of getting everything ready!

I'm sure we will be back in 2010, bigger and better and knowing what to expect. Big thanks to Odysseas and the rest of the Margin posse for having us.

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

Phone Book Art

Looking through the morning paper I found this. Thought it was pretty cool. Not because it's a portrait of Obama but cause it's carved out of an old phone book. There must be millions of redundant phone books lying in people's houses and this is Alex Queral's way of reusing his. The image is actual 3 dimensional. There was a side view in the paper but I can't find it. You will have to use your imagination to work out what it looks like. It seemd relevant seeing as we had done our own bit of telephone book art.

Origin68 @ Kendal Calling Festival

So, it's Tuesday...and we've still not recovered from the weekend.

We played our first gig at the Kendal Calling Festival set in the beautiful Lowther Deer Park in the Lake District. We say gig, more of a tshirt stall. It's the first time we've done anything like this so it was interesting to get out there and see how the public reacted to our stuff. It seemed to go pretty well. We managed to shift a good amount of shirts, chatted some jive with a few people and generally got Origin68 out there to the masses. It was a great experience. Sadly we didn't get to see much in the way of bands and stuff as we were manning the stall all day and night. We still had a top time though.

We also got to meet the man, the legend that is Mr Howard Marks which was nice (no pun intended). He popped over to the Laughing Cafe where we were situated to have a spot of breakfast.

Here's some pics from the weekend.