Unfortunately for Advertees a consequence of this event is that we lose a highly valued member of staff for the duration. Our genius admin (who keeps everything here running in an orderly fashion) will be camped out at the Festival, no doubt enjoying everything the Elephant Fayre has to offer, and this could mean our efficiency levels for Friday this week and Monday next, could be effected. And while Admin take a wild swim, watch bands, films, talks and readings, we will do our upmost to leave desks, computers and phones exactly as we found them.

Tickets are still available at the gate, and we, or rather admin@advertees, can vouch for the pure magic of this festival.

And of course, don’t forget to take a look at the beautiful T shirts, a simple yet  extremely effective design. and soft feel water based screen printing as pictured top.

Friday to Sunday, 13-15 November in Falmouth

As well as showcasing Cornish shorts, the festival will include National and international Film past and present, professional workshops and lectures.

Feature Films include the classic Eraserhead, and a south west premiere of Glorious 39 from Stephen Poliakoff, there are a number of short films on offer too, and Board shorts is taking place at the Stannary Bar Tremough for all those interested in UK surf film.

Every now and then we come across T-shirt prints which have all the qualities we like, water-based printing is a must, good design for screen print is another plus.

T shirts which are organic, or at least sweat shop free are always good. The T shirts featured tick all these boxes, a promotion for a UK tour of, The Present, a new Thomas Campbell film. The follow up to surf films Sprout, and The Seedling  covers West Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Sumatra, Java, Hawaii and California. For more information about the film and the venues visit thesurfscreen.com.

Looking at the featured surfers and locations this is probably going to be another classic, we can’t wait to see it.

The tour dates and venues are:

* Wednesday 22nd April  The Royal Cinema, St Ives
* Saturday 25th April The Sallis Beeney Theatre, Brighton
* Friday 1st May  The Carnmarth Hotel, Newquay
* Saturday 2nd May Woodlane Theatre, Falmouth
* Saturday 9th May The Lighthouse Centre, Poole
* Sunday 10th May The Cube Cinema, Bristol
* Saturday 16th May Braunton Village Hall, Braunton
* Sunday 17th May  The Reel Cinema, Kingsbridge
* Saturday 23rd May St Merryn Village Hall, St Merryn

A nice colourful design came through this week for Celefest. Initially this job was more than 6 colours, a little reworking made the design more affordable but had little effect on the impact of the design. Printed entirely in opaque water based inks, the colours were all underbased with yellow, as there is no white in the design. Curing a waterbase print like this is no easy matter, especially when printing hoodies as more ink is put down, so we gave the finished design a little heat pressing to make sure.

How often do we see this in Cornwall? It will be a slow start to the day with our staff scattered about Cornwalls minor roads. Our admin has decided to take a walk into work this morning (five miles) I hasten to add this was not my suggestion, and the reward should be some amazing scenery. Our designer is more remote a little beyond walking distance and opted to wait a while before attempting to drive. The chickens seem ok with it, a little slower out of the house this morning. This will be our small contribution to the reported 1.2 billion pound cost to the economy each day we have snow on the ground.

Photography by Tony Plant

The last few days have been the coldest we can remember. After a well earned rest over the Christmas period we were all keen to leap into action and set about tackling our already growing list of screen printing jobs, however,  we were soon to realise that very little could be done without our water supply. Here are 5 good reasons no screen printer should be without a good water supply and well insulated pipes.

1. Tea and coffee.

   Nearly every member of the Advertees team has a tea or coffee requirement, in order to achieve maximum efficiency the supply needs to be maintained.

2. Washing out screen stencils.

   It is impossible to wash out stencils without water, borrowed water in a container can sort out the tea and coffee crisis, but will not help in making a good silk screen stencil.

3. Reclaiming used screens.

   Again, this is an impossible task when you do not have the use of a good pressure washer.

4. Washing ink from screens.

   Although not ideal, water from a bucket can do the job, although I would not recommend it, you may also resort to plastic inks which can be washed out with various toxic screen washes.

5. Afternoon Tea.

   Previously assumed as a workers right, this is now a cherished moment, all water is used sparingly throughout the day to ensure this ritual goes uninterrupted.

These temperatures are unheard of in this part of the world, it has been an interesting 2 days. We are fully operational again with a new found respect for our water supply, full steam ahead and we should catch up on our orders in no time.

The most simple T shirt designs are often the most effective, I love Kernow T shirts are a good example of this. A timeless design that utilises White T shirts, simple printing in two colours, with a clear message. Easy.

Waterbased t shirt printing by Advertees

Christmas is now getting closer, and as it does the food industry goes into overdrive. This year we have been very fortunate to recieve chocolate in thanks for our T shirt printing, the above photograph is of a partly decimated box of organic handmade chocolate which had to be wrestled from staff for the benefit of this blog. This organic handmade chocolate is highly recommended by the Advertees team many of whom will be making the journey to St Ives to make purchases in the very near future.
We were also treated to the most amazing cornish fruitcake a photo of which had to be taken from the cornish fruitcake companies own web site, as I was too slow with the camera, staff polished off this treat in record time. Another 10 out of 10 from Advertees staff.

This years Screen Actions, is a two day event for young people, combining workshops, screenings and partys, last year saw 300 young people take part from schools all over Cornwall.

Board shorts is the Festival’s board sports film event, held at the Sandsifter Bar in Gwithian on the 8th November. As well as screenings there will be live music from Mark Kermode’s skiffle band The Dodge Brothers and local DJs Sir Vinyl of the Fattest.

This is a great event and although I am unable to make any of the screenings this year, we were fortunate enough to be able to supply some printed organic T shirts, we used water based screen printing inks for all the designs. The designs were created by A-Side a graphic design and illustration studio based in Falmouth Cornwall.

You can visit the twisted blog and have a go at name this spot Competitions, which are run on a semi regular basis, or even enter the tri annual shelf fest if you feel up to it. Better still, buy yourself a surftwisted T shirt! If you can figure out a way to purchase the Twisted merch, there is presently no online shop or retail outlet, you will need to track down Tony Plant, and if you are lucky, he will give you a screen printed organic T shirt in return for some cash. Good luck if you choose to pursue this.

“The Number One Cornish clothing label” The Rebus Collective release new Screen printed T shirts and Hoodies. Rebus love their Graffiti, Hip Hop and street clothing. This collective of DJ’s, artists and writers are responsible for some seriously interesting happenings in Cornwall, the likes of which we have rarely seen before. Beat boxes, break dancing and graffiti alive and kicking in Cornwall.

Hoodies printing

A break from T-shirt printing for one moment to congratulate Tony and Troy on a fantastic cover shot. It seems a while ago now but finally some pictures from the Surftwisted Indo trip are starting to emerge. Apparently there was some doubt as to the true nationality of the twisted team rider, the name Troy Sinclair and Tony Plants surreal approach to all things, sparked a search for the supposed ‘Scottish’ surfer in an effort to ensure an authentic british rider was on the cover. More details within the pages of Pit Pilot. As yet this is all unconfirmed babble from Tony Plant, I look forward to a realworld perspective when I buy the magazine.

Lizard MCC splashed all over the french papers. Although the cornish bikers are not entirely certain of what is written they are sure it is good for international relations. If you want to read about 20,000 bikers in Porcaro, eating pancakes (or ham and chips), and getting blessed, take a look at the lizard MCC Blog and read it as it happens.

Nice T-shirt printing even if we say so ourselves.

Zest series of St Ives Cornwall introduce new designs to the range, these brightly coloured T shirts and bold designs from young designer Kieran Whitefield are already in demand, visit Zestseries and buy the T shirts on line, you can also take a look at some of Cornwalls homegrown freestyle BMX video.

Waterbased T-shirt printing was used for all designs.

“Thanks for the T shirts

Green GoFors go Global!

Just to keep you updated – the green GoFors are a group of Cornwall College students who are studying responsible tourism and are keen to go for carrying out good green deeds!  Our first green activity was the beach clean, we are off to Fifteen today to discuss creating an activity sheet to go on the back of the kids menus with a green theme relating to responsible behaviour on the beach – in September we’re going to help install a windmill on one of the holiday parks etc etc and in November two of the group are going to represent UK colleges in Nice for their work on responsible tourism – we were selected from all the colleges who participated in the UK  – so the Green Gofors are up and running and actually going global!”

It has been a week of broken boundaries at Advertees, as we break all our previous records for T shirt printing production, poultry, cattle, and foxes have taken advantage of us being too busy to look outside the factory. They have found their way into places they shouldn’t be. Perhaps I should have made the effort to attend the Royal Cornwall Show and check out all that is new in fencing.

Meanwhile the Sevenoaks Rowing team have had to delay the start to their epic trans atlantic attempt due to an injury sustained by Pete Lumley, and at the moment that is as much as we know.

The royal Cornwall Show is under way! but sadly I can’t see myself making it down there, nothing to do with the rain! It is just busier than ever and not enough hours in the day. There is now a fox taking an interest in our chickens, we chased him off today and made lots of noise and he was gone. Needless to say the chickens retired early tonight.

Organic T shirt printers

Although not ideal in all situations, and the ink a real nightmare to work with at times, water based screen printing can be extremely satisfying. This month has seen a big increase in jobs produced with water based inks, some customers have even changed their original ideas to suit the process. Companies buying Promotional t shirts for the Royal Cornwall this week have been taking the greener option too, with both Okarma and Earth Positive T shirts doing well.

Just as expected I am finding it near impossible to make 10 minutes for the Blog, it seems the more things that happen that are worth writing about, the less time you have to write about it, and as blogging is all about whats happening today it seems a lot of interesting jobs will go by unrecorded, it could be time to introduce guest bloggers? Hijack someone from design or Admin… Taking a break from the T shirts for 1 second to catch up with the chickens, and it seems they are getting into places they are not meant to, found themselves a couple of secret laying spots which we have yet to find, and one of the elder chickens, Emily, got clucky. So all being well Advertees will have a new generation of chicks. The factory is running at full speed to deal with demand for events, and to top it all a good swell came through giving us a couple of days of great waves.

Organic t shirt printing

The Kimmins Stapes fund raising match at Enys Parc was a huge success. The event raised more than £7500 for The Lowen Ward (oncology) at Treliske Hospital on Sunday. “The final goal of the day and goal of the game was when Rob Stapleton completed the scoreline bringing the ball down on his chest and sliding it into net. The final scoreline 3-1.”

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