Live Screen Printing and Silk Screen Alchemy
Wheeling, dealing and a little bit of microphone stealing.
Oct 5th
At some point this past month ink+cotton started booking sooo many live screen printing events that we’ve outgrown every storage space imaginable. We are busy, and busy is good!
Lost Dog? Why not screen print a poster!
Jul 9th
Someone really loves little “Conchita”, they love their dog so much that they screen printed a lost dog post to help find it. Anyone who spends that amount of time and energy on their pet’s lost poster must really love it and love screen printing.
Well ink+cotton is down for the cause! If you happen to live or work in the Lincoln Heights / Highland Park area here are the details…
Female, White Long Hair Chihuahua. With a Cream colored spot on her back.
7 years old, 6 Pounds. Microchip 4461284769
Last seen near Aldama and York on June 15th.
Call 310-437-9128 or 310-437-9129
We hope Conchita is reunited with her owner soon!
The Byrd Show: 40 Years of Art & Design
Jun 5th
Opening June 11th and running through July 22nd the Brand Library Art Galleries is proud to present The Byrd Show: 40 Years of Art & Design, the first West Coast retrospective of renowned artist and graphic designer David Edward Byrd’s career.
Featuring live silk screening of commemorative designs by David Byrd and ink+cotton and free posters designed by David for the exhibition.
Other events happening during this month long exhibition include a lecture with David Byrd and Concert inspired by David Byrd’s iconic rock posters.
Saturday, June 25, 3 pm David Byrd discusses his work and career.
Saturday, July 16th, 7 pm A concert with musical direction by Daniel Faltus. Leading Los Angeles vocalists perform musical theater favorites by way of the Byrd posters.
T-Mobile Sidekick 4G Messenger Bags
Jun 3rd
ink+cotton was commissioned to create several designs promoting T-Mobile’s new Sidekick 4G phone. Thousands of bags were screen printed as part of the promotion.
These messenger tote bags were given out as a promotional premium at the Armani Exchange Neon Carnival, Coachella afterparty. Bags were also distributed as part of the pop-up gifting suite inside the Sidekick 4G launch party where The Strokes performed an exclusive show.
They are single strap, messenger type, canvas totes from Wasatch printed with Triangle plastisol ink.
Hello Android!
Jun 3rd
We love our phones, most of them are actually Android powered phones. So we were stoked to print a run of Tote bags for T-Mobile and Google.
Gayngs Sasquatch Festival Poster
Jun 3rd
Poster for the band Gayngs and their performance at the Sasquatch Music Festival. Poster was printed using Permaprint acrylic water based ink on 100# poster stock.
Not sure who Gayngs are; Check out their video below.
Bedrock Studios x David Byrd
May 7th
Join ink+cotton to celebrate rock art legend David Byrd’s Art show & Bday. at Bedrock Studios in Echo Park!
David Byrd has created album covers, concert posters and packaging design for some of the biggest names in music. Between 1968 & 1973 he created posters for Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, the Who & their rock opera Tommy; Traffic, Iron Butterfly, Ravi Shankar, and the Grateful Dead. In 1969 David created the commemorative poster for the legendary Woodstock Festival.
Along with several other prominent illustrators, received a Grammy Award for the album design and packaging of Tommy (by The Who).
The poster that Byrd created for Bill Graham’s Fillmore East, for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, was voted #8 in the Top 25 Rock Posters by Billboard Magazine.
Why do you need to know all this? Because ink+cotton will be producing a very limited edition live screen printing run of David’s legendary Tommy sketches this Saturday May 7th at Bedrock Studios
Bedrock Studios From 7:00PM until 10:00PM 1623 Allesandro Los Angeles, CA 90026
Coachella Anyone?
Apr 1st
Hey Kids,
ink+cotton is gearing up for Coachella 2011, do you believe it is only 2 weeks away? I feel like a kid waiting for Santa Clause to show up and bring 1,000 bands to the desert and rock out for 3 days straight. Oh, yeah; and we are Live Screen Printing at some of the coolest after parties.
Don’t have your after party plans sorted out for Saturday yet? If you are lucky enough to get into the Armani Exchange and 944 Magazine Neon Carnival party you can stop by our tent and get a very limited edition Armani tee. ink+cotton was on site for last year’s event, live screen printing for the crowds and this year we’ve got more shirts and all new designs.
Check us out on twitter – ink+cotton for updates and details.
Hello world, welcome to the new ink+cotton website.
Mar 20th
Welcome to the new ink+cotton website. Does it look sort of familiar? It might because you were looking for the old theAcquisitioners.com or Eastoflabrea.com websites. Both the previous companies and visions have melted into ink+cotton.
What is ink+cotton?
ink+cotton provides creative event marketing and branded promotions through live screen printing, customization and gifting suite services, customized swag bags, pop-up retail and many other forms of experiential brand activations.
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