Jeremy Tanner Life in Boulder: Every day an adventure.

Making shirts? Do it right.

 
From recent travels and conferences, I now have a large pile of T-shirts, and a much smaller pile that made it into the daily rotation.  The point is this, if you’re going to print promo T-shirts, do it right.  First rule, unless your company logo is So Hot Right Now™, have the shirts designed.  If the guy in marketing thinks it looks good, it doesn’t.  A design specific to an event can also earn extra points.  Second, if you want people to wear the shirts, print on American Apparel.  Sure, it costs twice as much, but the shirts will be worn more than 10 times more often.  People wear shirts that are comfortable, my favorite shirt was an American Apparel shirt before I knew what American Apparel was.  Lastly, don’t go with a large solid print on the shirts, it makes them wear like plastic bags, they don’t breathe at all.  And there it is, how to keep your promo T-shirts from ending up as rags.

1000 Cubes for SXSW

That’s a box, 2 inches shy of a foot on every side 10″x10″x10″, all the more I’m going to fly to Austin with. If it doesn’t fit in the bag, it’s not coming. I’ll be around for 77 hours (we’re losing an hour to daylight saving time, remember to set those clocks back forward kids) In midnight Saturday morning, out early Tuesday. Sort of a snack-size SXSW. Leaving the laptop and SLR at home, packing one T-shirt (I hear they’re going to be growing on trees), one pair of shoes, underwear for each day and a jacket. I can avoid doing laundry before leaving if I buy new socks before heading out. Twitter updates @Penguin and I’ll edit this post when I figure out where the iPhone images are going to end up from the weekend.

San Francisco Rising

San Francisco Rising from penguin on Vimeo.

Just a quick video I made from a glass elevator before leaving San Francisco. 

Great to meet you all at BlogWorld

BlogWorld Expo in Vegas last week was a whirlwind. This is the post where I link some of those I ran into, in roughly the order met starting Tuesday night.Chris Brogan, Marshall Kirkpatrick, Chris Heuer, Jim Turner, Tris Hussey, Krista Neher, Erin Kotecki Vest, Kris Krug…And too many others, thanks for making the first Blogworld Expo so successful.