GET A GRIP
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Now selling in-store and on our online store, Festive Christmas Critter decorations.
Pack of the three for £10 or 4.50 each, perfect for hanging on this year’s Christmas tree!
Hand screen printed onto 100% organic cotton, hand made and filled with 100% recycled polyester.
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Our buddy Stephan Chan has the tees we printed for him up for sale. Check out the Brothers Of The Stripe too, no doubt coming to a city near you soon!
Thanks to everyone who’s ordered from us so far this month, although they most likely haven’t been aware, we’re donating 5% of the revenue from all print commissions ordered and printed in November, and all sales in the shop and online, to testicular and prostate cancer charities. That includes the costs of the garments we buy in for each commission so I’ll most definitely be regretting this impulse decision next month.
Thanks to our intern Fabe, we finally have some artwork to go with the offer. The man draws an excellent set of testicles.
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Today I had my phone stolen from the shop/studio…
… but then had an idea.
This month, thanks to the combination of seeing the co-founder of the movement on the breakfast news this morning, and the open invitation by STAG barbers in the Custard Factory, and the diagnosis last month of someone very close to home, I will be shaving my beard, which I’ve had for 8 years, and then growing a tash for Movember.
But that probably won’t help anyone or anything, as I’m notoriously bad at fundraising myself, so this month we will also be donating a percentage of every print job we are commissioned to do and a percentage of everything we sell online and in the shop to the cause.
I’ve also sent Fabe, our intern and founder of Dubbz Apparel, away to design a new Movember tee for the shop with all profits being donated to the cause.
Details in a much more aesthetically pleasing format will follow!
NB: I no longer have a phone so if you need to call GAG use the Eco Merch number 0121 773 3354
Sam @ GAG
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Our favourite shop No Guts No Glory down in Exeter is turning 3 this weekend!
We’ve been printing for NGNG from the start and its been particularly pleasing to see NGNG and GAG grow together over the years.
Nath, founder of NGNG, went for organic shirts and sweats from us a few years back. It was a tough decision to make for a small shop, low on cash and high on overheads. With only our assurances that the finished articles are way nicer and some people do give a shit, he went for it, and hasn’t looked back.
So because it was NGNG, we cut out the mesh of the black layer of the ever popular Jack Teagle’s ‘Snakeman’ prints so this Saturday you can win our screen, Jack’s awesome Snakeman Toy and one of the NGNG tees printed with that very screen. We reclaim the screens after every print, except for this one. A bit of screenprinting history up for grabs for the price of a raffle ticket!
Head down to the No Guts No Glory Birthday Party at McCoys Arcade in Exeter this Saturday from 10-5pm and take part in NGNG’s super prize draw!
Check out NGNG online http://ngngdesign.com/
See more of Jack’s work here http://www.jackteagle.co.uk/
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i have a few questions regarding screen printing, i draw and i wanna start making my drawings into posters, patches and t shirts i'm new to screen printing what do you suggest i start out with? i've talked to a few companies and they said i'm gonna be looking at $2500 for a decent kit. But i've seen people use equipment at home that doesn't cost nearly as much. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Sorry, didn’t see this till now. Half of our equipment I made, Kay who I started GAG with made a simple but really effective printbed with her dad and that’s how she started out. The internet is full of awesome diy-ers who like to share so get searching for DIY screenprinting and watch as many videos and clips as you can find.
If you start out this way I think you end up understanding the process a lot deeper than if you just throw cash at it and buy a kit someone else made or put together.
Cheers,
Sam
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Our new batch of Kim Jung Illen’s are back on sale! Now printed with amazingly soft discharge inks.
Get yours at www.dubbzapparel.com
Seriously soft. Come take a look in the GET A GRIP shop!
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GIGS IN YORKSHIRE (it’s been a while)
Two gigs in West Yorkshire in November…
Sat 3rd Nov: Packhorse, Leeds - Dauntless 10th birthday thing with them, us and Wooderson
Sat 10th Nov: Parish, Huddersfield - Movember benefit with Bear Trade and loads more
Then we’re hopefully doing a weekend down south with Rad Medicine later in November. I should probably find out what’s going on with that. Get in touch if you can help us out with a gig…!
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