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Team Spirit on Dominoes • Phenominoes are dominoes that have been printed with an image via dye sublimation to create a pendant. They are ideal add-ons for the spiritwear market, says Sandy Parker, creator and designer. Transfer Express recently introduced Pearl Prints, which enable decorators to add pearl luster to transfers. They come in ﬁve fashion colors: pearl blue, pearl gold, pearl green, pearl purple and pearl copper. They are ideal for use on designs created for fashion, spiritwear, dancing, gymnastics and more. Pearl Prints can be applied to any garment made of cotton, polyester or cotton/poly fabrics. Orders can be created online and printed to show customers for ﬁnal approval. Decorators can select from a wide range of clipart, typefaces and templates, and each design will be created to match speciﬁcations. The Americana Company, Gardena, Calif., recently released its new catalog, a 116-page book featuring T-shirts, ﬂeece, athletic wear, sport shirts, jackets, children’s apparel, hats, bags and aprons. The company has added more than 20 brands to its offerings for 2010, including adidas, Badger Sport, Canvas, Champion, Colorado Clothing and more. New styles and colors were added for preexisting brands like Hanes, Anvil, Bella, Gildan, Independent Trading, Outer Banks and Towels Plus. Champion recently partnered with the National Alliance for Youth Sports (NAYS) and a council of key sports industry leaders to create an Athletes’ Creed, a belief system designed to inspire players of all levels to reclaim • Allison Fifer, of PL West Inc., presents her donation of Boxercraft spiritwear to Rebecca Truette, Family Services coordinator for Children’s Advocacy Center for Denton County. Dublin, Texas, is home to the newest spiritwear supplement: the Phenomino, a domino printed with a graphic to create a pendant. “It’s an alternative to wear your team spirit that is a jewelry item, but it’s still imprinted,” says Sandy Parker, creator and original designer of Phenominoes. “It’s deﬁnitely a spirit impression — it’s just not on cloth.” Parker says the charms can be worn on a necklace, hooked to a key ring or tied to ceiling fan pull-chains, just to name a few options. The designs are transferred to each domino via heat dye sublimation. “Dye-sub printing is so much more resolute, [and it] gives you a better ﬁnish and a brighter look,” Parker says. “Some of the graphic artists are just amazing. When you take that amazing graphic talent and put it on a canvas, whether it be cloth or [a] domino, it’s beautiful.” Until recently, Parker created the Phenominoes herself. Now, she is making the product available to printers, releasing a Phenominoes kit that includes all the pieces necessary to make the pendants. “This offers [decorators] a solution — a totally new way to show team spirit,” Parker says. “It’s another way to increase your proﬁt margins.” For more information, check out phenominoes.com. — Sam Calvert Boxercraft Announces Charity Winners Boxercraft, Atlanta, recently donated 3,000 new garments to six winners of its “Bring Comfort to Your Community” charity contest. In April, the company invited promotional products distributors and decorators to nominate charities that could use a donation of Boxercraft spiritwear. Winners received 500 garments to donate to their chosen charity. The winners were: • Mona Rottinghaus, Mona’s Originals, for Camp Courageous. • Tina Knowles, Star Stitching, for Project Walk. • Jodi Frank, Frank Communication Solutions LLC, for Chai Lifeline’s Camp Simcha. • Terry Meade, Meade & Associates LLC, for Gift of Life Family House (Philadelphia). 4 • Fall 2010 the pure enjoyment of the game, camaraderie of a team and the spirit of clean competition. As part of the initiative, athletes were able to submit their own athletic principles for potential inclusion in the creed, as well as vote on the principles submitted by the advisory council at Champion’s Facebook page (facebook.com/Champion). The ﬁnal creed will be released near the end of the month. • Allison Fifer, PL West Inc., for the Children’s Advocacy Center for Denton County. • Janie Price, Tease Me Custom Garment Printing, for Mooseheart Child. Each of the more than 100 entrants received a free sample from Boxercraft. — J.L http://www.phenominoes.com http://www.facebook.com/Champion

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Impressions - Team & Spirit Apparel - Fall 2010
Flexfit/Yupoong
American Apparel
Contents
Augusta Sportswear
A&E Robison-Anton Embroidery Thread
Trends in Team Decorating
Sportco Masters the Team Game
Stahls’ ID Direct
School or All-Star Spiritwear?
Boxercraft
Dalco Athletic
Transfer Express
Gear Bag
Digital Art Solutions
Pepco Poms
Hanes

Impressions - Team & Spirit Apparel - Fall 2010