Forward Printing took two awards in this years Impressions Awards judged this weekend in Ft Worth, Texas. Impressions is the leading industry journal and host of the Imprinted Sportswear Shows (ISS) around the country.
We took first place in the “Eco Friendlier Screen Printing” category for our promo shirt we call “More Fire.” Many of you have these as they were a production run of 340 pieces for giveaway, promo, and to ship to our customers across the country for samples of what we can do with water based inks.
Prototype "More Fire" colorway
The image above is the prototype and our favorite colorway of this design. This is just the mock up, but we also printed a bunch of this asphalt colorway. Just below is the shirt that actually one the first place award, printed on a natural colored organic t shirt.
Pictures of the other winning shirt and some text about it is below, read on…
Eco Fire
We also took second place in the “Most Creative use of a Screen Printed Logo” category for our “Foil Madness” design. This one is a high density print, and it stands nearly 1/8″ off of the shirt. It was printed with clear gel and different colors of foil. It is 18 hits (prints) through the same high density screen. We placed different colors of patchy and random foil between each layer of ink, so there is foil on the bottom of the print and just under the top coat of the print. When you look at the print at an angle or from the side, you can actually see the edges of the different colors of foil and their depth within the ink. Once cured, the clear gloss gel is super glossy, almost mirror like… This is not a shirt that too many people would actually be comfortable wearing, but it sure is neat, at least to us screen printing nerds…
Foil Madness
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