Day at Riot

Work showcase - Wolf Arms shirt

Shirt design for Wolf Arms. They came to Riot Printing with a pretty cool concept to build off of and this what I came up with. It turned out great and looking forward to printing them soon!

The American plague

Went over the Sullivan's to see TAP play after watching the Gold Cup finals at the Taco. It was great to see some old faces I hadn't seen in a while. Alex was rocking a Riot shirt too!!

3rd Annual Henkel Phillies Road Trip!

The most excellent model showing off this years shirt!

On the scene at Riot Printing with the road trip shirts on the press!

TIME TO HIT THE ROAD

Dad, Donna, Mary and I left for Pittsburgh on Thursday around 4:20. I took over driving after dinner and ended up getting a ticket on 19 only 30 miles from our hotel. The officer cut me a break but still gave me a ticket.

Our hotel in downtown Pittsburgh. Right next to PNC park too! The hotel was beautiful and the rooms were awesome. Those divided style rooms with a couch and a large LCD TV.

Awesome seats in the club level

Had a great day! Ate at The Bus's (Jerome Bettis) restaurant along the river and got a little sun. It is a beautiful area and honestly I expected it to run down and dirty. PNC park is beautiful! The game went into extra innings and things got a little crazy. We had 20+ people with us, all in Phillies gear and just about everyone in the shirt I made. There were some Pirates fans that were getting a little lippy. We all know why, the Phillies have regained their top tier status as a team while the Pirates are still horrible and can't seem to put together a winning season. Well to protect those involved someone in our group got tired of hearing it and got in the face of "the lumberjack" as I called him, due to his tan Pirates hat and tan shirt. Well he still didn't let up and Mr. lumberjack got an open hand across his face. He was out matched and retaliated by throwing his beer. Well both were thrown out. A Pirates fan in front of my actually turned around and told me he had it coming, talking about the lumberjack. So this cause tension in our section. A local turned around to the lumberjacks friend and started yelling at him due to excessive cussing, he was removed. Then...a lady in front of us starting antagonizing another member of our group. They had thrown a few drinks back earlier so it went start to shouting back and forth. This member of our group was removed also.

12th inning...Pirates walk off.

Yet another Riot run.

One of a few designs we have run for Jesco White.

Riot hard at work | I heart VBS shirts

MF auto shirt 2!

Printing MF Auto shirts

RIOT INK: First big poster run

We got our first big poster job for a 10 Years show. The poster was and interesting design Alex thought up and Travis brought to life. It was a 3 color design and we need 105. 25 to give away to go up in shops, 75 to sell at the show and 5 for us.

Travis and I started on the first color around 4:30.

Alex showed up around 6:20 when we finished the first color. He started some stuff he needed to do and Travis and I ran to grab a bit to eat at... you guessed it, Hooters.

After din din, we started on color number 2, the black. I had to run home to let the pups out. After I return the black was about 30% done. Alex was printing and Travis and I were hanging/trying to find a place to put them. You'll see below we had them everywhere!

It was 10pm by this point so we decided to run 20 in the 3rd/money color that were to be delivered tomorrow.

3rd and final color, gold! I think it turned out great. It was a ton of fun and we still have 85 more to run the gold on. Travis can't decided last night if he wanted to knock them out during the day Wednesday or if he wanted to wait until I could get over there. I'm guessing he'll wait, haha.

RIOT INK: Printing our first big shirt job

Trav Alex and I ran our first big job today. Run of 50 for Andy Wood

and a run of 30 for Adoration

Andy Wood shirt, it's actually a chocolate shirt with light tan print. I printed most of these myself and now have the process down pat!

Our current work area.

Burning a screen.

We had trouble with this one screen for some reason. We think we had to much emulsion on the screen. We burned 5 or 6 screens before we got one we were happy with.

50 finished Adoration shirts

Almost 50 finished wings! Our award for working so hard :)

RIOT INK: First shirt design

Travis and I have started silk screening. I made a quick design and went through the process last night. We ran around a bit looking for some transparent paper and found some at Hobby Lobby. Once we get the design ready we printed it on the transparency. It didnt look to hot so we decided to run it through again on a different setting. We both figured we'd get a ghosted image but it actually turned out nice. Only the bottom portion was off a tad. Next we burned it into a screen. Travis had already applied some emulsion to a screen and it was ready to go. We got everything ready and hit the light. We let it expose for about 20 minutes. Once it was good and burned in we hit it with the hose (Travis had just got a new fireman nozzle) and Travis said that was the best rinse his had yet. We put the screen in front of a fan and let it sit for a while.
Well now it was time to see how she'd do. Ran a tester and it seemed to turn out pretty nice. We through a shirt it and went for it. As you can tell in the image it turned out pretty nice!
We printed 2 shirts. The black one has some cool experimental dual ink usage. We are currently thinking of a company name and are hot on working on our next shirt. We also are searching for a 4 color screen system.