New Contest! Here’s one of our employees weeding 10,000 Stickers for our customer Swiftwick Socks! All you have to do is “Like or Comment” on the photo. We will pick a random winner by Tuesday, January 31st! Prize: $100 iTunes card or Gift Card from Amazon.com

Cool retro black cat print, done with discharge ink!

We are now currently looking to hire that special graphic artist who Loves Vector Art!  You must be creative!

Your Cubical! You can decorate it how you want!

What type of artist are we looking for?

Look here: http://www.threadless.com/interviews These are some of the best artist making vector artwork for t-shirts.

• We need you to relocate!
• No Freelancers!
• We are 15 minutes from Jack Daniels.
• Nashville is a hour drive North, and Huntsville, AL is 20 minutes to the South.
• Cost of Living here is inexpensive!
• We have fresh air and beautiful stars at night!
• You must know how to paddle a canoe down the river!
• We will help you move!!!
• Must have a sense of humor!

Email your portfolio link(s) if your interested!

NDesigns Screen Printing is a fast-growing company located in Fayetteville, TN. We are looking for an experienced textile screenprinter. The main responsibility of the job is to keep our presses going and production moving. The duties of the job include all aspects of the screen printing process. Specifically this position will be responsible for running one of our M&R presses, setups, tear-downs and machine maintenance. Experience is required. We’re looking for a reliable 40 hours per week.

We also offer a great bonus plan for qualified individuals. Pay based on experience and capabilities.

Please email jeff @ ndesigns.net

Shawn Adam Jones

When I read his story today, it hit home for me. I too have a family and know how horrible cancer can affect ones family.  This could happen to anyone of us.   Please take time to read his story and if you can… try to help his wife and kids out.  I know they are going to need all the support and prayers. http://www.b5cares.com/donations

Once of the first things I did here was write a program to help with fulfillment.  Yes, Joe the Plumber is also a programmer.  But besides writing programs and doing fulfillment, I have replaced every toilet in the building—we have the top of the line models (you can flush a bucket of golf balls! But please don’t try, Jeff already got in trouble for that…)  I have installed exhaust fans in the back building;  I have moved electrical outlets, painted walls, fixed our exposure machine, hung metal on the building, and the list goes on…

And by the way, I also can embroider, make signs and banners, heat press your vinyl apparel and tons of other things.

So when you drop by to ask about some shirts or signs or anything else, ask for Joe.  I’ll do my best to make sure you get exactly what you want with your order AND I can talk with you about your leaky toilet or if you need an “If…then” or a “Do While” loop in your computer program.

The morning of the race was just beautiful! The weather was so nice – not too hot and not too chilly – perfect running weather. I was quite surprised to see just how many people were there! I had no idea the Run was such a big deal… and it gets better yet.   In the 3600+ participating runners/walkers, there were 112 teams. Most of them make signs for Sherry’s Run – it was absolutely amazing! Such different creativity and all so interesting.

  There was this one sassy team of  ladies, sporting lots of pink – even a hot pink mohawk! They cheered and danced around to music playing during the Auction and even got other people to join them in the electric slide! (My Favorite.) Smiling and laughing right along with them, I asked if I could snap a pic of them, and of course they were all for it! Check ‘em out…

One team came all the way from Alaska!!!! Talk about altruism… The group traveled to Lebanon, TN from Alaska to devote a whole 4 hours of their life to help with the awareness of colon cancer. SO commendable. (Unfortunately I couldn’t locate them to get a pic.)

The Cause

So i definitely enjoyed the social nature of the event but what I’m hugely thankful for is the amount of knowledge I brought back with me about colon cancer. It’s a scary thing! And a lot more common than you’d think. They had this giant inflatable colon that you can walk right through and read about the different types of colon cancer and even shows you what it looks like inside the colon! Very informative. And it was kind of interesting to be passed through a giant colon and definitely lightened the mood.

Another cool thing i saw (and really couldn’t miss) was this big sign! Of course, being in the sign business as well, I had to scope it out. I loved it! definitely grabs your attention and makes you think for a second… which is what any good sign will achieve!

The crowd was great and the people watching was enjoyable, and the positivism brought by all to shed a light on such a tragic illness was inspiring. The end of the event consisted of the honor ceremony where the board of directors gathered on the stage to talk about the event – the turnout, the history of it, and of course the awareness they bring about colon cancer. Each year they dedicate the event to someone and honor those who’ve passed and those still fighting. It was a beautiful, yet sad few moments, but i definitely appreciated every second.

Sherry’s Run has become a huge annual event, going strong for 8 years now and raising more and more every year.

We would like to thank all of those at Sherry’s Run for allowing us to be a part of the experience! You guys are so amazing!

Oh, and here’s a shot of people wearing the shirts we printed.

I got lots of good feedback from the Sherry’s Run volunteers about the shirts which made it all the more rewarding!

Things you may not know about our 14,000 shirts:
1. They arrive on their very own truck.
2. They are saran wrapped just like your lunch.
3. It took six 7 X 4 pallets to get them all here.
4. They have to be counted..(every single one of them!!)
5. NDesigns will be printing ALL of them… in less than 3 days.

Whoah. That can be a lot to take in. Especially the saran wrap part. Just breathe, you have to take each task as it comes, even if they come at the same time!! For instance, we are putting the finishing touches on our lobby renovation, our new addition to the shop, and now this huge job! We are happiest when we’re busy though.

So this is just the first of it…. Printing doesn’t seem that bad! They’re only a few thousand in at this point though.

Follow WHO to Home Depot? The thousands and thousands of employees who will be wearing these shirts – that’s who.

SO, you know we got this new folding/bagging machine – right? Well here it is at work! Doesn’t look like much right now… but as the project progressed, the work space be a sea of orange! Not literally.. they were stored in bags to avoid a clutter after being packaged individually.

Ya know… after wanting a folding machine for so long, it seems almost absurd to have just now gotten one! It made this process much more breezy. We’re going to use this for everything now! After all, presence is quite essential.

After a long, hot, week of orange lint collecting in our nostrils and on our foreheads (it was literally everywhere by the end! Cleaning was the funnest.) the staff was rewarded with a nice  buffet lunch, courtesy of Jeff. See! He does have a heart Just kidding… the boss takes great care of all his staff and it’s always a great time to get the work family out together for a meal or just whatever! Sorry we didn’t get a pic of that! You’d probably be able to smell them through the photo though, so consider it a blessing.

That’s all for now, folks. Be sure to stay tuned for more NDesigns news, with limited commercial interruptions!