http://blog.october.co.uk Urban Clothing, Streetwear, Fashion Design Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:30:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Twisted genius Dr Simeon Hartwig, brain child behind the street brand Bantum, (famous for its Big In The Game T-shirts), can be seen here having breakfast with Example in his Man Up T-shirt, as screen printed by October. Thanks again to Example for continuing to support UK fashion talent, and ... http://blog.october.co.uk/2011/12/october-screen-print-for-bantum/ Katie Scott 'Minerals' from 1ina100 on Vimeo. It’s not just that screen printing by hand allows for greater control of print detail, as we can see here, it also allows for varied intensities of colour within the print. The majority of pricing for screen print allows for a couple of straight pulls ... http://blog.october.co.uk/2011/11/hand-screen-printing-t-shirts/ A big up to the Teehunter. "A daily fashion, style and tshirt culture and design blog dedicated to showcasing the worlds best clothing brands, collections, tshirts and designers." Tee Hunter is Edited and run by Liam Thomson. He fanatically hunts down and showcases the most exceptional brands, designers and clothing collections. There is ... http://blog.october.co.uk/2011/11/teehunter-fashion-and-tshirts/ It’s not just your fashion types that are asking for bamboo T-shirts and nice soft discharge inks, oh no, even the students are onto it now...there was no sit in, no placards, and no chanting ’What do we want, organic T-shirts, when do we want them, now!’, but they did ... http://blog.october.co.uk/2011/10/wet-and-windy/   We have talked about it for a long time. In our 22 years of textile screen printing, here at the heart of the Lace Market in Nottingham, we have watched the disappearance of our garment manufacturing industry. At it’s lowest point we lost 6-800 jobs a week, and we went ... http://blog.october.co.uk/2011/10/sweatshirts-and-hooded-sweats-made-in-england/ "In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of ... http://blog.october.co.uk/2011/10/steve-jobs-r-i-p/ 8teesix dedicates itself in bringing out strong, simple and clean graphic t shirts. Based in the South of the UK, 8teesix combines our appreciation of custom typography and love of t shirts. The designs focus on typography that has been created purely for the tee and used nowhere else, so you ... http://blog.october.co.uk/2011/10/8teesix-new-range-of-tshirt-typographers-dream/ As you may know, October specialise in fashion screen print, putting ranges together for the easy streets of Soho, where a hot skinny latte choccy mocha, is always to hand, so it was always fairly unlikely that we would get involved with outdoorsy type brands...it’s cold up there, on the ... http://blog.october.co.uk/2011/10/october-climb-into-a-sleeping-bag-with-north-face-helly-hansen-sprayway-mammut-and-berghaus/ Check out Example rocking the new Chateau Roux Block Logo Tee (red) on tour....as printed in a soft waterbased ink by October. You can pick up the tee from ASOS now. http://blog.october.co.uk/2011/10/chateau-roux-set-an-example/ October is still all about printing for and supporting brand new brands, and the brand new Venon are no exception. In their own words...’The Venon team is all about design, creativity and having fun. The teams interests are skiing in the winter and surfing in the summer, with the aim ... http://blog.october.co.uk/2011/10/venon-the-birth-of-a-brand/