East End Ink

wednesday 5:55pm – MJ ‘Rock With You’

sup freaks ! I suppose this will be my last post of June!

Crazy how fast time is flying by…

BAH! Before I get side tracked!

Here’s just a small sample of what’s been happening at the shop!

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So we have had a TON of Mellow Johnny’s shirt printing lately !

I was really into this next little character . . .

& i loved how bright the red was popping on his hat :

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We also have been doing a bunch of Team Radioshack

& I just can’t deny how much I love this color combo

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So I know I am always posting about our rad shirts HOWEVER!!!!

we did some god damn guitars !?

We did these for our pals Reckless Kelly :

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mean while . . .

. . . yeah i can shoot lasers out of my eyes . . .

Jo is our printmaster.

With 20 yrs of printing under his belt,

he is the quality and specialty master.

Jo went on hiatus but returns with a new found vengeance. . .

to show the world there is none better !

We are beyond happy and privileged to have him back.

here in the art department, there are two people.
me and kevin munoz.
needless to say, we’ve become good friends.
so i thought it would be a good idea,
to say a little bit about east end ink’s lead artist.

kevin came from sunny california, where he worked at paul frank!
crazy, right? i used to wear paul frank all the time when i was in grade school.
after moving to austin, he jumped into the screenprinting world
and has been a force in the production world ever since.

he has taught me so much since joining the team.
not to mention, he is an amazing artist & partner!
with his super rad talents in writing type,
and his crazy characters who come alive on paper,
kevin’s art has a style as unique as his socks !

so if you are looking for designs that stand out,
look no further because this crazy cat
has many surprises up his sleeve.
see for yourself !

this is sick print we did for jason boland and the stragglers !

designed by jared connor  AKA mexican chocolate.

jared has done some AMAZING work for bands like:

the mars volta, russian circles, mono…

definitely check out his site

hello! its friday! yes!

i hope all you guys are keeping cool in this horrific texas heat..

i walked outside for a minute to take this picture, and almost died!

this is an awesome shirt for mellow johnny’s !

the color looks great, and the design is super rad.

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we also printed these shirts for the band of heathens

simple  yet effective !

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ohhhhhh those Mother Truckers ! BAHAHAHAHA !

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im sure next week will bring many more great things!

(hopefully another case of kow-a-bunga hint hint)

everyone go out and enjoy your weekend!

im going to master pancake theater at the alamo tonight, YES!

and passion pit on saturday (*u^)

my desk is a mess but i am bustin out of this joint!

PEAS OUT!

im sure my thirsty thursday is slightly different from yours…

double fisting kow-a-bunga energy drink!!!!!

we have been printing their shirts

& steve was kind enough to leave us a few cases…

needless to say, we’ve been drinking them like crazy..

or been crazy while drinking them.. or just crazy always

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so majority of the time,

i’ve blogged about all the awesome shirts we are printing..

BUT we also do signs !

we made a couple different signs / window banners for The Boutique Real Estate

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ladies and gentlemen…….JASON BOLAND & THE STRAGGLERS!!!!!

so that is not as effective in text as it is when i am yelling it in the office,

but you get the point..

we have done some rad merch for them,

the screen below is from one of the designs.

if you go to their site, you can see the finished shirt in the merch section !!!

we also did these lady tanks for the band,

i thought the color combo was particularly siq !

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if you are a local, you’ve probably heard the news that austin will soon by hosting the Formula I races.

[again, i took a picture of the screen, i just love the way burned screens look]

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LAST but not least.. I will again state the importance of my celtics winning game 7 tonight.

not just for my hometown of boston, massachusetts

…..but for the good of man kind !!!!!!

we cannot let the phylum chordates take over ! curse you gasol.

ok inkertons. im out !

everyone have a great thursday.

:: jwt ::

i love elvis, as a little girl i always remember listening to him with my parents. so i am allowed to write cheesy references to song titles.

we printed these totes for music today featuring none other than the king himself

mmmm sexy.

bonjour !

just wanted to give you all an update on what’s happening around the shop (*_*)

this is just a small portion of the boxes we have in the shop for rot rally !

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i thought these shirts were pretty sick, i am a huge fan of black letter type faces !

[props to kevin for recreating this type from only a picture ! ]

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we did these a few weeks ago, but i think they are wicked rad !

yes, we DID screen print on metal -

for a company called Bleep Labs who are all about noisy objects

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well inkertons, that is all for today !!!

wait, one last note: GO CELTICS!

It’s been nothing but Rot Rally printing in here for the past few days !

All of the women’s   -

All of the hats -

All of the bandanas -

& a good amount of the mens -

The lesson of today is: plastisol vs. discharge.

We discharge, others don’t.

Therefore, when presented by another printer with their bulletproof t-shirts, the ROTRALLiERS came to us to make their shirts soft as a baby’s butt -

Hey, bikers like it soft too, and soft they shall receive!

fresh off the press -

Here’s a peek at a very small percentage of what we’ve printed so far :