Monday 20 December 2010

Eco Friendly Blazer from David Luke

New Eco-Uniform is an industry first for David Luke

One of T King Associates School wear suppliers David Luke are doing their bit to save the planet with their new Eco-Uniform school jackets for boys and girls. Hailed as a school wear first, the new jackets are made from 100% recycled, non-biodegradable plastic from drinking bottles, which would otherwise go to landfill. Compared to an equal quantity of traditionally manufactured oil-based fabric, the 100% recycled de/repolymerized material used by David Luke requires 84% less energy to produce it. This in these current times can only be a good thing and TKA will be looking into the product shortly and reporting back to customers and users alike

Thursday 9 December 2010

promotional T-shirts good the bad and the ugly

I know it's the middle of an early winter but as sad as I am, I am already thinking how the recent cotton price increases, and general increase in cost of well lets be honest most things, is going to have an effect on the humble promotional T-shirt. We have for at least 20 years printed our T-shirts, from a basic give away for a day promotion, to T-shirts for events and blue chip clients looking to get people wearing their brand over the longer period.

It's worth remembering the following, if you print onto the cheapest poor quality shirt, it will not last more that 5 minutes before it is destined to be a car washing rag. In every situation I can possibly think of it as always worth raising the quality and lowering the run length to compensate, because even if you run 100 shirts of good quality people will wear them and keep them for longer, and its also worth investing in a good designer to pull the job together. The whole point of your shirt is to get your brand / message across long after the day you gave it to your customer or visitor.