What your Startup Schwag bag may contain

Over in Silicon Valley, near San Francisco and home to hundreds, if not thousands, of web companies, a company exists that sends you a bag of “schwag” in return for a monthly subscription. This bag of schwag is not the spoils of some bank heist but t-shirts and stickers from web 2.0 start-ups. Each month subscribers don’t really know what is going to be in this goody bag but they can be safe in the knowledge they will be sporting the latest geek logo whilst wearing a lovely soft American Apparel t-shirt (and will get some free stickers).

The concept is not new. In fact this site took up the idea from a company called RubyRed Labs in San Francisco but in April 2007 they stopped doing it. StartupSchwag.com sprung up in September of the same year to fill the void.

This is a fun idea in an industry that has been churning out funky new logos for years, combinded with a fan-base that loves to wear t-shirts. I am sure a similar idea could work well for the music industry but of course there are those expensive licences, required to sell band merchandise.

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• 25 % on all grey t-shirts with the voucher code GREY. Only valid until Monday
• Free Shipment on all Organics t-shirts with the voucher code ORGANIC.

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You don’t have to work in our office and you can work when you want. You can even write your blogs in batches on lazy Sunday afternoons if you have full time employment and then we’ll stagger the publishing of them.

We have tonnes of source material and good blogs for you to find inspiration from. We’ll pay monthly on a pay-per-post model.

Interested? Send us a sample blog post (say 300 words) to jobs@indigoclothing.com with the subject “tshirt writer” and tell us how much per post you would like to be paid and we can go from there.

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Screen grab of student cashback page

We are all pretty excited here at the Indigo office as for the Autumn season, and for the return of students to university, we have cooked up an extra special promotion for hard-up academics in the form of a student cashback deal on core products such as t-shirts, hoodies and rugby shirts.

To claim the discount quote code SCASH08 and prove you are a student (uni email address, NUS number etc.) and once you have paid and placed your order, we’ll send you your cash back within 60 days.

Simple! Interested? Call Jo or her team today, on freephone 0800 061 2207, and she’ll sort you out a great quote.

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SAF Long sleeve T-Shirt

We have just added five new products from organic cotton supplier SAF to the product catalogue. Check out the baby romper and baby organic t-shirt as well as a rugby shirt, polo and long sleeved t-shirt.

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Front Row Sale

Our rugby shirt suppliers are having a clear out to make room for all the new and exciting ranges for 2009 so they have lots of Front Row stock on special offer.

All styles found on this Front Row PDF are available for £5.50 each. This offer only applies to stock on the PDF and it is first come, first served, so be quick

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Doris clearly knows a thing or two about t-shirt customisation!

September is almost upon us and that means Fresher’s week will be commencing up and down the country at nearly every university. If you need t-shirts printed for your student union, halls, JCR then get in touch.

Don’t forget Indigo Clothing offers screen printing and embroidery and not just tshirts but rugby shirts, hoodies and many more customisable garments.

Indigo offer up to 20% student discounts on selected garments and incredible prices.

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From: Sara Sweet - Sonkai Jewellers
Sent: 14 August 2008 11:00
To: Eleni Panayis

You guys are AMAZING!

In less time than it should take for my BACS payment to reach you, you have got the £££, sorted my approval and made / posted my shirts - everything within 48hrs. I would say I was speechless apart from the fact I am quite clearly still managing to email lol

Big thanks to you all.

We shall certainly be ordering again in the future and recommending you to anyone that will listen. Our postman has already had a full run down this morning and had to patiently wait whilst we modelled our new rags!!!

Very best wishes

Sara

Sara Sweet

look: www.sonkai.co.uk

visit: 4C Exchange Street, Norwich, NR2 1AT

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Roland is Swedish. He is a pro with over 10 years design experience in a multitude of sectors. He can offer you anything from logo design, corporate identity or just a cool illustration. For example, check out this t-shirt design concept he came up with for Annie Vernon, a GB Rower who wanted some t-shirts for her supporters at the Olympic games this summer in Beijing:

He made all these variations and the Annie just picked the one she wanted. If you want Roland to help you give one of our team a shout and they can sort something out.

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Annie Vernon, Indigo’s second client, and one time blog contributor, happens to be rowing for the Great Britain team in the upcoming Olympic games in the Women’s Quadruple Sculls. Her crew enter the tournament as reigning World Champions and everyone is hoping they can bring home gold. Indigo Clothing made up this embroidered logo, featuring both the Chinese and Cornish flags, for polo shirts worn by both her supporters and her family.

I am personally delivering the polo shirts (and some cool t-shirts designed by Swedish graphic designer Roland) to the rowing lake. Back in the office on 19th August. The team will be ably lead by Jo Myronidis during by absence as an international courier.

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Kerrang!'s team model their new printed t-shirts

Indigo recently supplied Kerrang Radio with some awesome printed tees for their roadies promo team! The bold stripy Continental tees with the contrasting red print definitely created the eye catching look they were after!

Kerrang currently have a full team of Roadies but if you would like to be considered for the team in the future please e-mail a photo of yourself and a short biog/CV of your achievements and why you want to work for Kerrang! Radio. Send your e-mails to alana.ennis@kerrangradio.co.uk with “Roadie Application” in the subject line. Applicants must be at least 18!

Check www.myspace.com/kerrangroadies for more info on what the roadies do.

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RSPCA Pancake Maker Apron on the transfer print machine

Last week Indigo Clothing printed a range of items including the apron above for the RSPCA (Royal Society for the Protection of Animals), one of the UK’s largest charities, in aid of their Free-Range Egg Campaign. Their staff were sporting a range of RSPCA branded apparel at the Ben and Jerry’s Sundae event on Clapham Common in South West London. More pics of the t-shirts and clothes in action on the B&J Sundae photos page.

Indigo transfer printed some of the items such as the aprons, chefs hats and bum bags as unlike the t-shirts these where only needed in very small quantities. Using the screen printing we tradionally prefer, the design above would be quite expensive as it has multiple colours and drop shadow. However, transfer printing using our new heat press and the Universal Opaque Transfer system by Target (PDF) was a breeze and producing cracking results.

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Transit Antenna

$Fat American$ today launch their Fundraising T-shirt Project with the release of the first in a series of shirts whose purpose it is to “keep the dream alive”. 100% of the profits from this shirt will go directly to the travelling art collective Transit Antenna.

These guys always make cool tees, I am sure we have mentioned them before on the Indigo blog but I can’t find the post!

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Rain seems to be threathening the third set on the mens singles Wimbledon final as Nadal seems set to take the throphy from Federer. 

This year Indigo Clothing again embroidered some of the players Adidas shirts, thanks to a regular Wimbledon order from sports management agency SFX/BEST. As usual we did both sleeves for the US top seeds Bryan Brothers and also newcomer Sam Querrey.

Sadly for the Byrans they got knocked out of the of the men’s doubles at the semi-final stage by Jonas Bjorkman and Kevin Ullyett. However, they still play on the mixed doubles final today. Good luck to them both!

Image ©Getty Images / I. Walton

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There’s a couple of tips for any budding t-shirt designers out there! Some of the range looks a little OTT to me, especially the tailoring, but i do like the printed space beach tee, space print sweat (£150.00) and the slogan print trucker cap (£85.00).

Contact Harvey Nic’s for more info on 0207 236 5000.

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