Thanks to Dan Holloway, author and founder of Free E-Day, the biggest ever cultural electronic giveaway & celebration of the independent creative spirit, for interviewing us on his blog. He is also author of the interactive Facebook novel, The Man Who Painted Agnieszka’s Shoes, which is being written as you read this!
Find the interview here.
Thanks to Andy from blogsite Hide Your Arms for featuring our Narwhal Named GOB shirt, OMG SRSLY we love you.
We’ve just finished our wholesale catalog for the fall 2009 season, which includes our first housewares item – Squid Linens! We also make it easy to choose what kind of shirt you’d like to carry, including bamboo/organic cotton blends. Contact us for a copy today.
Yard + art = yart!
Squid Ink Kollective is hopping on the etsy sitewide sale for the next 4 days, check out our sales and everyone else’s too 
www.squidinkkollective.etsy.com
Just wanted to share the many ways in which we try to save a little bit of plastic, a little bit of tree, here and there.
Oh, there’s more. But that’s what I got right now. If you have any suggestions or questions, feel free to leave them in the comment section!
Brian+Lynnea=SquidInkKollective
Or so we’re told by the fashion team at 102.9 FM and Dallas Morning News’ fashion journalist, Jason Sheeler. The theme was re-return of 80′s inspired goodness – big big big. And so they went to House of DanG, and got a bunch of their designs, a bag we the Squid Ink made, and a hat by the lovely Tara to the T. Check out the video podcast version of the radio show:
A pic of the bag they chose to feature:
Here’s the blurb on the Shopping blog of the Dallas Morning News!
And the blurb on 102.9′s website!
Thanks everyone!
Perhaps unsuprisingly, I Lynnea enjoy using twitter. Excessively connected to people on the internet? Maybe. But that’s kind of a good thing when most of my time is spent in my living room/sewing workspace. Of course it doesn’t replace authentic human contact. But that’s hard to get when we’ve got a small business to run!
We will be in Dallas Saturday evening with the Circa and DanG peeps….hopefully celebrating….a big secret! We’ll let you in on it tomorrow…..huzzah!
If you’re on twitter too, find us as well: twitter.com/squidinkie We’ll keep ya posted about new items for sale, happenings, secret coupons, our other fave sellers and more. See you there!
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Brian and I have always used water based inks, ever since the start of S.I.K. Using plastisol was just not an option. But most people don’t understand the difference between the two. The obvious is look and feel – plastisol inks literally seem like plastic, they sit on top of the fabric, and eventually over time and washes, they begin to flake off. These days, plastisol inks are becoming softer, so the texture is less noticeable. But they still contain the harmful substances and demand the same chemicals for creation/cleanup as they did before. Water-based inks literally dye the fabric, getting softer with each wash and only fading as the fabric its dyed into does. They are not perfectly green, but are on their way and in the mean time are a lot less demanding on our earth than their plastisol counterpart.
Mantis Graphics has a great, short article about their reasons for using water-based inks; check it out here.
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