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ISS Education Costs Less in 2010 Most PoPular ImpressIons Web articles Most saveD 1. Simple Tips for Advanced Lettering Success 2. Off the Cuff: Differentiating Your Company from the Competition: Part 2 of 2 3. How To Use Emblems and Patches in Embroidery 4. How to Embroider Bags and Totes 5. How to Do Appliqué Most PrinteD 1. Off the Cuff: Differentiating Your Company From the Competition: Part 1 of 2 2. Off the Cuff: Differentiating Your Company from the Competition: Part 2 of 2 3. How To Use Emblems and Patches in Embroidery 4. Off the Cuff: Selling to Religious Organizations: Part 2 of 2 5. How to Do Appliqué With today’s challenging economy, doing smart business is the way to stay in business. To stay on top of trends, refine your technical expertise or expand your shop’s decorating capabilities, join us at the 2010 Imprinted Sportswear Shows for our extensive educational conference program. Next year’s conference lineup offers diverse topics available at reduced prices, allowing you to attend these important classes for less. For example, a full-conference package in 2010 will cost just $99 preshow and $225 on site. A single seminar can be purchased for $25 pre-show or $75 on site, and the all-day workshop fee is just $99 in advance, or $150 on site. Join the industry’s top educators for next year’s sessions, which cover screen printing, embroidery, digitiz- ISS 2010 will feature a variety of new seminars and workshops facilitated by industry experts such as Chris Bernat, partner, SourceSubstrates, N. Charleston, S.C. ing, digital decorating and a strong emphasis on doing business in the decorated apparel market. The majority of the program is new, with several hands-on classes that let you get involved. Don’t miss the new two-part class, “Simple Sublimation,” the interactive “Embroidery Clinic” workshop or “Special Effects in Action” — a hands-on screen printing class that details specialty inks and print- ing techniques. Also, industry expert Charlie Taublieb will lead a refreshed workshop, “Apparel Screen Printing: A Comprehensive Overview.” Attend this class and then visit Charlie on the show floor at Charlie’s Corner, where you can try your hand at manual screen printing. For the entire Long Beach conference schedule, visit issshows.com — M.D. American Apparel Headed to Sesame Street American Apparel, Los Angeles, is collaborating with design studio Mighty Fine to create T-shirts imprinted with the original line drawings of classic Sesame Street characters such as Big Bird, Burt and Ernie. The limited edition line is set to launch sometime this month in 25 of American Apparel’s stores, as well as online. The company hopes to further expand to all stores and perhaps to the American Apparel Kids’ line. The launch of the design coincides with Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary. The process of launching the Sesame Street line includes turning the original Most e-MaileD 1. Off the Cuff: Differentiating Your Company from the Competition: Part 2 of 2 2. Off the Cuff: Differentiating Your Company From the Competition: Part 1 of 2 3. How to Embroider Patches 4. How to Create Easy Embroidery Effects, Part 2: Puffy Foam & Trapunto 5. How To Use Emblems and Patches in Embroidery to read any of these articles, visit impressionsmag.com. Find the search box at the top of the page and input the article title (in full or in part) — in quotation marks — and hit enter on your keyboard or click the blue circle next to the search box. American Apparel will release a new line of Sesame Street T-shirts in its stores this month. The shirts will feature line illustrations of original drawings of Sesame Street characters. drawings into line illustrations, which can then be printed on American Apparel T-shirts. According to the company, customers will be able to choose from dozens of color backgrounds. Selecting the prints for the T-shirt line involved a two-month-long process, as designers searched through eight discs of Sesame Street’s graphic archives to select the four final images. “The end result is a cast of characters and images that bring a modern feel to Sesame Street and a heritage to American Apparel,” says Carolina Crespo, graphic designer, American Apparel. For more information, visit americanapparel.net. — staff impressionsmag.com Impressions >> November/December 2009 http://www.issshows.com http://www.impressionsmag.com http://www.americanapparel.net http://www.impressionsmag.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Impressions - November/December 2009

Impressions - November/December 2009
Contents
First Impressions
FYI
Product Gallery
Decorators Peer Into the New Year
Recession Strategy: Survive And ThenThrive
Performance Delivers
Production
Graphics & Design
Online Directory
For Screen Printers Only
Business to Business
Classifieds
Ad Index
On Design

Impressions - November/December 2009