LivePrinting.com, Barrel Maker Printing, and our friends at Busy Beaver Button Company hosted a casual and hands-on workshop for locals to print tee shirts, tote bags, and buttons. The event started with an introduction by Christen Carter from Busy Beaver and then a brief but comprehensive “how screen printing works” demo from Barrel Maker Founder and chief weirdo, Justin Moore.
The House of Vans, which contains skateable features, art installations, and the general vibe in which Barrel Maker was founded on, was a perfect venue for this kind of workshop. It opened in 2017 and is situated in the Fulton Market District, it is the third of it’s kind to open. Hosting bands, workshops, skate classes and more.
Guests got to choose from a few rad designs and screen print them personally onto tees and tote bags with assistance from the Barrel Maker team. After they were printed they got to come up with a custom phrase starting with the prompt “Trust Me ________” and further personalize each garment with our super crazy cool handjet print guns! Then over to the Busy Beaver station do a similar process but in button format.
Putting people in touch with the actual process in which their clothes and wearable statement pieces are manufactured proved to be fun and engaging with lots of conversation sparking over the specific science behind printing all the way to it’s marketability and the paradox of whether one should print their own shirts and have full control over the process, or focus on marketing and letting Barrel Maker do what we do best. Showing people how we set up for Live Printing events and letting them print their own pieces gave participants a rare inside look at the process.
If you get a chance to come to an event where we are live printing, or you have an event that would benefit from hands on merch with no excess inventory, we have it all figured out. Please reach out.