New Storenvy Store

Storenvy this week launched their new social shopping community....

"In a nutshell Storenvy is _the_ social online store and shopping community. On one side, Storenvy is a series of online stores run by independent sellers. "The little guys."

On the other side, Storenvy is a network of shoppers who can shop across all of those stores at once, interacting with each other by watching what notes and ratings they leave on products and stores throughout the site. It's like following your friends and style icons on a shopping spree, watching what they pick up and what they actually buy."

We decided to give it a try and see if it creates anymore traffic for us. It won't ever replace our standalone store but it's free so it's got to be worth a shot. It may pull in some more sales from the good ol' USofA

Check it out http://origin68.storenvy.com/

Computer Arts Project Magazine features Origin68

We were approached by the guys at Comupter Arts Projects asking if we would like to be featured in their "How To Launch Your Own Streetwear Brand" edition of the magazine. Obviously we said yes.

The magazine features lots of great articles highlighting how to get into the world of streetwear and design. Our stuff made it into the Showcase section as well as having one of our quotes make it into the Big Question section. We did send them a pic of the two of us together, however they decided to cut poor old Harry out of it! He's still crying about it as we write this.

If you're a budding entrepreneur and fancy launching your own label then this is a great place to start, there's some great articles about getting stuff printed (by White Duck Screenprint), designing your own store (By Shred Clothing) as well as examples of great existing stores, designers and illustrators such as 123 Klan, Fl@33, Sixpack, Beautiful Decay.

Here's some pics from it.


Front Cover


Big Question

Paris'68 in the Blogs

We've had plenty of bloggers feature our site. All of these sites are well worth checking out too. Some are dedicated to tshirts other's to good design in general.

Paris'68 on Iloveyourtshirt (tshirt blog from France)
Paris'68 on Coty Gonzales (one man tshirt blogging machine)
Paris'68 on HideYourArms (UK based tshirt blog)
Paris'68 on Duty (cool designery stuff)
Paris'68 on DirtyMouse (food for designer's dirty mouse)

NEW DESIGN - Paris'68

Last week we droppoed our latest design. It's a bit of an hommage to the Paris uprisings in 1968.

The French aren’t stupid. When they don’t like stuff they get up off their arses and kick up a stink about it. In fact, they’ll pretty much go on strike before you can say "improved workers conditions".

May 1968 was one of those iconic moments where the people came together and took on the powers that control them and through not inconsiderable sacrifice changed things for the better. We made a tshirt about it.

You can find it here www.origin68.com/paris68

Phone Book Art

Looking through the morning paper I found this. Thought it was pretty cool. Not because it's a portrait of Obama but cause it's carved out of an old phone book. There must be millions of redundant phone books lying in people's houses and this is Alex Queral's way of reusing his. The image is actual 3 dimensional. There was a side view in the paper but I can't find it. You will have to use your imagination to work out what it looks like. It seemd relevant seeing as we had done our own bit of telephone book art.

Origin68 @ Kendal Calling Festival

So, it's Tuesday...and we've still not recovered from the weekend.

We played our first gig at the Kendal Calling Festival set in the beautiful Lowther Deer Park in the Lake District. We say gig, more of a tshirt stall. It's the first time we've done anything like this so it was interesting to get out there and see how the public reacted to our stuff. It seemed to go pretty well. We managed to shift a good amount of shirts, chatted some jive with a few people and generally got Origin68 out there to the masses. It was a great experience. Sadly we didn't get to see much in the way of bands and stuff as we were manning the stall all day and night. We still had a top time though.

We also got to meet the man, the legend that is Mr Howard Marks which was nice (no pun intended). He popped over to the Laughing Cafe where we were situated to have a spot of breakfast.

Here's some pics from the weekend.

LookBook 2009/0.1

We now have our lookbook available to view online for any potential stockists. For prices and what not email us at info@origin68.com and we will send you the relevant details. We are always looking for new an interesting places to stock our tees so don't be shy, get in touch.

Thankyou please.

Find it here: http://issuu.com/origin68/docs/look_book_2009_0.1

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