Don’t knock it until you try it. Rogue Ales and Voodoo Doughnut have teamed up to make Voodoo Bacon Maple Ale. We got a chance to screen print some umbrella panels, something we don’t do every day. It on;y took ten minutes to break out into a chorus of Singing in the Rain.

Run for the Arts is an annual jogathon organized by Young Audiences where kids gather pledges in order to raise money to subsidize arts funding in schools. Last year nearly 22,000 students from 82 schools in Oregon & SW Washington participated in the Run, raising over $730,000! One of the incentives for the kids the chance to earn a free t-shirt by reaching a certain level of pledges. The designs have always been done by kids themselves. This year’s designer was Caemlyn Dayson, who goes to Arleta School,. She had some help from her older brother Darion, who goes to Franklin High School.

Skate-a-roke is this Monday, January the 9th form 7:30-10pm at the Oaks Park Roller Rink. What is Skate-a-roke? Roller skating and Karoke! Proceeds go to the Rose City Rollers. Make sure you pick up one of these boss t-shirts commemorating the event. Yes, we said “boss.”

We’ve recently been screen printing some movie posters for the Hollywood Theater in Portland. So far it’s been all horror films. The latest is this poster for the 1984 cult classic Silent Night Deadly Night. The art was done by Local Portland artist Irina Beffa. Read the whole post for a little behind the scenes poster printing action.

The separation process for posters is a little bit different than for t-shirts. There’s a lot more overprinting and unlike t-shirts, you print all of one color and let it dry before moving to the next color. We built an extra large vacuum table printing rig to accommodate oversized movie posters, but this poster is standard sized. (If you’re interested in the details, we’ve got a pretty cool future post planned.)

Sometimes it takes a barrel  of monkeys to run a photoshoot. We recently shot some photos for a new print ad, and we had two guys photographing at the same time. One of them happened to catch the shot we were going for on the preview screen of the other guy. We were thinking about using a shot of someone looking at this photo on a computer screen as the final ad, but then the universe might implode. Hit the enlargement to see.