Behind The Screens

Our new office cubicles are finally in! We ended up having one of our clients who owns a local cabinet shop, make them. He far exceed our expectations! Now we just need to hire 2-3 more graphic artist to start filling them up. (hint hint! if anybody knows any passionate graphic artist that love to design t-shirts please contact us!)

A customer approached us back in Early October about getting a shirt design done up for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Walk for a Cure they were holding in Atlanta Ga.

The customer had a drawing they wanted to have as the design for the shirt, it was drawn up by her granddaughter.

So we did what we do best! Scanned in the artwork, cleaned it up, and got it printed and out the customer in 4 days time.

The customer took the time to write us back, and send us a picture of all the people who participated in the walk wearing the shirts.

We had a local company by the name of The Wood Shop put together an order for us for some tables to use in our sign department. We were expecting typical work station type tables. Nice but nothing like Furniture Grade construction.

When they dropped the order off, we were shocked to see the quality and time they put into the tables for us. Sanded, sealed, high quality construction, and just an amazing job.

If you are in the market for QUALITY craftsmanship – Give Danny Pigg a call at The Wood Shop 931-937-9213

We are looking for companies to help sponsor the t-shirt portion of the Kids Hunting For A Cure event.. We will be printing and giving out 400 t-shirts with the design below. Your logo will go on the back of the shirt. Cost to sponsor is only $50. Make checks payable to: Kids Hunting For a Cure If interested, just send us an email and we will hold a spot for your company.

Kids Hunting For a Cure is a non-profit organization which provides financial support to research hospitals/foundations dedicated to developing cures for cancer and childhood diseases. Monies are raised by children and adults through community-sponsored outdoor events designed for youth. More information can be found here: www.kidshuntingforacure.org

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We have been blessed to meet some great professional athletes over the last 20 years. One thing I have noticed with players that leave professional sports, is the fact that most of them do not have long range plans after playing days are over. One player who did plant the seeds way before his season was over, was Eddie George (and yes he wrote the intro on his web page himself). He has a number of great things going on such as The Edge Group, EGX Lifestyle and a few other ventures.

Eddie has coming up the EGX NFL Moms Challenge, which is dedicated to promoting a healthy new lifestyle. The NFL Moms Challenge begins Sept. 6-8 and will mirror the 2007/8 football season, concluding with a EGX Superbowl in Phoenix on Jan. 31, 2008. The EGX Kids Fitness Challenge is Nov. 3rd.
So any of you Titans & Ohio State Buckeye fans that want to meet Eddie George in person here is the information below:
Who: 300 Boys & Girls, Ages 9 –15
Date: Saturday, Nov. 3, 2007
Time: 10am –2pm
Location: Titans Practice Facility –Nashville, TN

Its true, its been a long time since I bought a shirt from somewhere else! I have only purchased 1 shirt before, and it was for my little girl because the design was so cool. See it here! What a cool design from a great artist!

Then a few weeks ago, someone sent me a link to a very cool site called www.woot.com They have a great concept going on! They basically post a new design every night at 12am cst, and sell it for $10! This price also includes SHIPPING! They will print between 400-1000 pieces per day based on the design being bought. I give them credit for doing something very cool and out of the box. This is one of the shirts we got from them:

So for so good!

I will say this… embroidery is 100x easier to do than screen printing, the production part that is! We had about 3-4 hours of training from our rep, and once he left we started our first job of 60 pieces or so, with no problems. Only a few minor issues with the swf machine, which the swf technician was able to correct with us over the phone.
Here are the updated pics of our new embroidery room.

You can also see the Hoop Masters we purchased over the weekend at the Embroidery Mart East show in Nashville.

It’s finally here!

NDesigns continues to grow our market share for embroidery. It has increased so much over the last 24 months, that we finally made the decision to bring it all in-house. We have been using a great company down the street to do all of our work. This new endevor will complement our existing screen printing operation, which still is the primary driving force of our business.

It took almost 2 years to research to decide on which equipment to go with. After going to countless tradeshows, reading different message boards, and getting different opinions from owners of embroidery machines, we decided to go with SWF. The main reason is the customer feedback we got about their great service once you buy the embroidery machine. SWF will be sending a tech down to do the installation of the 1508 Dual Function Embroidery Machine sometime next week.
Here are some photos below of the new machine arriving today.

Our New 1200 sq ft Embroidery Room:

Fresh off the Truck!

Lately, its been funny to hear the comments from our local customers and friends who come by and see the new colors. They are bright! But, they match our website and our branding. Also, I want to say thanks to Concrete Floor Art, for doing such a great job of using a water base stain to dye our concrete floor.

Right now, we are 3 deep to an office, which is a great problem to have. Everyone is looking forward to having their own space to work in that isn’t so cramped. Below is the layout of just the office area and conference area.