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  May 26 '08 by Threadless        33 Comments        Watch this      Share:  Share on facebook    Share on delicious    Share on digg    Share on MySpace    Tweet this    Stumble this    Share this on kirtsy   
We are overjoyed to be working with 6 of Chicago's finest screenprinters for the creation of the high quality Threadless Prints you'll be checking out every Monday!




Screwball Press
Started by Steve Walters, Screwball has been printing posters, cd packaging, and a variety of other collectible items for Chicago's indie rock community since 1991. Walters also runs Screwball Academy, a hands-on course in the screenprinting process, teaching and mentoring young artists, many of which have gone on to start their own studios.




Sonnenzimmer
Sonnenzimmer is the joint venture of Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi creative endeavors. Together they work, paint, print, and welcome visitors at their Roscoe Village location producing amazing posters, art prints, artist books, and record covers.





The Post Family
Everything is for the growth of our family members and community by supplying them with the resources and inspiration to accomplish their individual goals.





Mat Daly
Screenprinting since 1999, Mat paints, prints, and creates posters out of his small Chicago studio. A frequent collaborator with Bird Machine's Jay Ryan, Daly's impressive client list ranges from "your amazing underground rock band" to the Museum of Modern Art.





Delicious Design League
Spearheaded by the team of Billy Baumann & Jason Teegarden-Downs, Delicious has been screenprinting since 2003, doing everything by hand. They not only print for us, they will gladly design & print artwork "for your band or play or movie or bris." They also dabble in some apparel.




Dan Grzeca
Since 1996, Dan has been creating art prints and concert posters under his own name and out of his shop, Ground Up. With screenprinting, he tries to make the prints "look as tactile as possible," applying "the perspective of being a painter to being a printmaker." Check out more of his work at his etsy store.

label
   label on May 26 '08 at 10:18am
Nice!
bananaphone
   bananaphone on May 26 '08 at 10:19am
why do you need 6 printers? Your runs aren't large enough to justify a print split, so I can only assume that they offer techniques that are unique to each printer.
Kookaberry
   Kookaberry on May 26 '08 at 10:48am
What bananaphone said.
Kookaberry
   Kookaberry on May 26 '08 at 10:48am
But that's great you're keeping it all local.
arzie13
   arzie13 on May 26 '08 at 11:22am
Yeah...these are all super awesome smaller local printshops that do these prints as well as their normal workload.. That is why we need 6... also the Chicago screenprinting community is s pretty tight knit, alot of these printers have worked together in the past and they all wanted to share these threadless prints. They are basically a team that will consistently produce amazing work. All of them are great.
Sucha
Sucha on May 26 '08 at 11:26am
:)
spires
   spires on May 26 '08 at 11:35am
Pass the savings onto the designers or the customers. I'm not enamored with the idea of things being more expensive, just to support local people who I've never met and really don't care about.

I think you should look into more printing techniques. For example, find a large print shop that specializes in print then sew, enabling designers to the entire shirt as the canvas.

skaw
   skaw on May 26 '08 at 12:04pm
spires - these are the printers we work with on our art prints, not the tees... We do work with larger shops on the tees and have the capability to do many advanced printing techniques including cut and sew if a design necessitated it.
littlem
littlem on May 26 '08 at 12:06pm
hi, printers! nice to meet you! :D
funkie fresh
   funkie fresh on May 26 '08 at 12:36pm
hello printers! yay for local!
spires
   spires on May 26 '08 at 12:38pm
oh, rock on!

sorry for my misunderstanding. :-P
shirtflirt
shirtflirt on May 26 '08 at 12:39pm
sometimes spires, there's more to it than the bottom dollar. sometimes things don't have to made at the cheapest cost possible.
not everyones and anarcho libertarian.

support community
Bramish
   Bramish on May 26 '08 at 12:40pm
Any particular reason why the prints cost $37 each to ship to Europe? That's way steeper than anywhere else I've bought prints from.
spires
   spires on May 26 '08 at 12:41pm
I live on Cape Cod, and I've had it up to my eyeballs with support local stuff. It seems reasonable in this case, because threadless is offering sort of interest pieces which are not their main product.

The world is a community, so the 'local' thing rings hollow. The economy is one, and I'd hope all forward thinking people would come to that realization, for humanity's sake.
Bramish
   Bramish on May 26 '08 at 12:44pm
Oh wait, I just saw some explanation in the other thread. Still, I ordered a similar size print from ImageKind, which came immaculately multiple packaged, so as not to be damaged, and only cost $11 or something like that.
valorandvellum
   valorandvellum on May 26 '08 at 1:44pm
Oh cool!
westfaery
westfaery on May 26 '08 at 2:56pm
Nice to meet you!
sonmi
   sonmi on May 26 '08 at 3:13pm
hello!!
Edword
   Edword on May 26 '08 at 3:17pm
I want to go to Screwball Academy!!

chelly
chelly on May 26 '08 at 4:03pm
hello
yeohgh
   yeohgh on May 26 '08 at 8:14pm
more more more more prints on sale plsssss!!!
Monkey X
Monkey X on May 26 '08 at 8:34pm
I will call them...

bionic
bionic six!
ooh ooh ooh
Pizazz
Pizazz on May 26 '08 at 10:19pm
Sounds great for those 6 companies, getting massive, constant orders under Threadless's name.
ladrones
   ladrones on May 26 '08 at 11:00pm

The world is a community, so the 'local' thing rings hollow. The economy is one, and I'd hope all forward thinking people would come to that realization, for humanity's sake.


f that s,
go local, threadless!

tell that "economy is one" bs to some sweatshop workers.
SteveOramA
SteveOramA on May 27 '08 at 5:11am
i think it's a great idea to involve the local printshops in and around the chicago area. it creates a mutual support system that stays true to threadless' standards. just another way to stick to the community togetherness!
tiphaine
   tiphaine on May 27 '08 at 8:08am
Mat Daly's prints and posters are awesome! I have been eyeing one of them for a long time but of course it's the expensive one :)

Any chance of adding him to the Select queue?
J-Ray
J-Ray on May 27 '08 at 8:57am
Grumpy wankers will always find something to complain about. Way to go, Threadless, for supporting your local printers and spreading the wealth!
PatZ
PatZ on May 27 '08 at 9:04am
belllllloooooo.. :)
ladrones
   ladrones on May 27 '08 at 9:19am
i'll wank your grump
jstumpenhorst
   jstumpenhorst on May 27 '08 at 8:40pm
awesome! i checked out those sites and they all look pretty great. i love Dan Grzeca's style. i bought a couple prints of his at the Renegade Art Fair last year that are pretty sweet! i look forward to seeing where the print medium at Threadless goes! very exciting!
spires
   spires on May 28 '08 at 1:53am
tell that "economy is one" bs to some sweatshop workers.

They and those like them, are the ones who need it the most.
11 days later
jillustration
   jillustration on Jun 08 '08 at 10:39pm
screwball press! surely you know this is where Jay Ryan got his start! Why on earth haven't you invited him to do a select tee yet??? It would sell out on the first few days, plus it would be ten kinds of awesome.
Malcolm Man
Malcolm Man on Jun 08 '08 at 10:40pm
Nice!!! 1You guys always find the most amazing talent. I am always impressed.
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