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Threadless Prints - Meet the Screenprinters!

We are overjoyed to be working with 6 of Chicago's finest screenprinters for the creation of the high quality Threadless Prints you'll be checking out every Monday!




Screwball Press
Started by Steve Walters, Screwball has been printing posters, cd packaging, and a variety of other collectible items for Chicago's indie rock community since 1991. Walters also runs Screwball Academy, a hands-on course in the screenprinting process, teaching and mentoring young artists, many of which have gone on to start their own studios.




Sonnenzimmer
Sonnenzimmer is the joint venture of Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi creative endeavors. Together they work, paint, print, and welcome visitors at their Roscoe Village location producing amazing posters, art prints, artist books, and record covers.





The Post Family
Everything is for the growth of our family members and community by supplying them with the resources and inspiration to accomplish their individual goals.





Mat Daly
Screenprinting since 1999, Mat paints, prints, and creates posters out of his small Chicago studio. A frequent collaborator with Bird Machine's Jay Ryan, Daly's impressive client list ranges from "your amazing underground rock band" to the Museum of Modern Art.





Delicious Design League
Spearheaded by the team of Billy Baumann & Jason Teegarden-Downs, Delicious has been screenprinting since 2003, doing everything by hand. They not only print for us, they will gladly design & print artwork "for your band or play or movie or bris." They also dabble in some apparel.




Dan Grzeca
Since 1996, Dan has been creating art prints and concert posters under his own name and out of his shop, Ground Up. With screenprinting, he tries to make the prints "look as tactile as possible," applying "the perspective of being a painter to being a printmaker." Check out more of his work at his etsy store.

33 Comments

label
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label
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on may 26, 2008
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at 10:18:39

Nice!

bananaphone
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bananaphone
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on may 26, 2008
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why do you need 6 printers? Your runs aren't large enough to justify a print split, so I can only assume that they offer techniques that are unique to each printer.

Kookaberry
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Kookaberry
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on may 26, 2008
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What bananaphone said.

Kookaberry
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Kookaberry
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on may 26, 2008
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But that's great you're keeping it all local.

arzie13
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arzie13
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on may 26, 2008
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Yeah...these are all super awesome smaller local printshops that do these prints as well as their normal workload.. That is why we need 6... also the Chicago screenprinting community is s pretty tight knit, alot of these printers have worked together in the past and they all wanted to share these threadless prints. They are basically a team that will consistently produce amazing work. All of them are great.

Sucha
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Sucha
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on may 26, 2008
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:)

spires
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spires
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on may 26, 2008
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Pass the savings onto the designers or the customers. I'm not enamored with the idea of things being more expensive, just to support local people who I've never met and really don't care about.



I think you should look into more printing techniques. For example, find a large print shop that specializes in print then sew, enabling designers to the entire shirt as the canvas.



skaw
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skaw
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on may 26, 2008
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spires - these are the printers we work with on our art prints, not the tees... We do work with larger shops on the tees and have the capability to do many advanced printing techniques including cut and sew if a design necessitated it.

littlem
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littlem
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on may 26, 2008
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hi, printers! nice to meet you! :D

funkie fresh
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funkie fresh
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on may 26, 2008
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hello printers! yay for local!

spires
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spires
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on may 26, 2008
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oh, rock on!



sorry for my misunderstanding. :-P

shirtflirt
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shirtflirt
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on may 26, 2008
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at 12:39:07

sometimes spires, there's more to it than the bottom dollar. sometimes things don't have to made at the cheapest cost possible.

not everyones and anarcho libertarian.



support community

Bramish
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Bramish
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on may 26, 2008
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Any particular reason why the prints cost $37 each to ship to Europe? That's way steeper than anywhere else I've bought prints from.

spires
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spires
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on may 26, 2008
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I live on Cape Cod, and I've had it up to my eyeballs with support local stuff. It seems reasonable in this case, because threadless is offering sort of interest pieces which are not their main product.



The world is a community, so the 'local' thing rings hollow. The economy is one, and I'd hope all forward thinking people would come to that realization, for humanity's sake.

Bramish
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Bramish
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on may 26, 2008
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Oh wait, I just saw some explanation in the other thread. Still, I ordered a similar size print from ImageKind, which came immaculately multiple packaged, so as not to be damaged, and only cost $11 or something like that.

valorandvellum
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valorandvellum
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on may 26, 2008
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Oh cool!

westfaery
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westfaery
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on may 26, 2008
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Nice to meet you!

sonmi
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sonmi
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on may 26, 2008
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hello!!

Edword
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Edword
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on may 26, 2008
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I want to go to Screwball Academy!!



chelly
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chelly
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on may 26, 2008
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hello

yeohgh
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yeohgh
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on may 26, 2008
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at 20:14:24

more more more more prints on sale plsssss!!!

Monkey X
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Monkey X
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on may 26, 2008
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I will call them...



bionic

bionic six!

ooh ooh ooh

Pizazz
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Pizazz
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on may 26, 2008
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at 22:19:44

Sounds great for those 6 companies, getting massive, constant orders under Threadless's name.

ladrones
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ladrones
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on may 26, 2008
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The world is a community, so the 'local' thing rings hollow. The economy is one, and I'd hope all forward thinking people would come to that realization, for humanity's sake.




f that s,

go local, threadless!



tell that "economy is one" bs to some sweatshop workers.

SteveOramA
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SteveOramA
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on may 27, 2008
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i think it's a great idea to involve the local printshops in and around the chicago area. it creates a mutual support system that stays true to threadless' standards. just another way to stick to the community togetherness!

tiphaine
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tiphaine
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on may 27, 2008
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Mat Daly's prints and posters are awesome! I have been eyeing one of them for a long time but of course it's the expensive one :)



Any chance of adding him to the Select queue?

J-Ray
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J-Ray
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on may 27, 2008
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at 08:57:35

Grumpy wankers will always find something to complain about. Way to go, Threadless, for supporting your local printers and spreading the wealth!

PatZ
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PatZ
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on may 27, 2008
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at 09:04:44

belllllloooooo.. :)

ladrones
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ladrones
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on may 27, 2008
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at 09:19:01

i'll wank your grump

jstumpenhorst
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jstumpenhorst
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on may 27, 2008
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at 20:40:52

awesome! i checked out those sites and they all look pretty great. i love Dan Grzeca's style. i bought a couple prints of his at the Renegade Art Fair last year that are pretty sweet! i look forward to seeing where the print medium at Threadless goes! very exciting!

spires
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spires
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on may 28, 2008
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at 01:53:15

tell that "economy is one" bs to some sweatshop workers.



They and those like them, are the ones who need it the most.

jillustration
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jillustration
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on jun 8, 2008
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at 22:39:11

screwball press! surely you know this is where Jay Ryan got his start! Why on earth haven't you invited him to do a select tee yet??? It would sell out on the first few days, plus it would be ten kinds of awesome.

Malcolm Man
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Malcolm Man
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on jun 8, 2008
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Nice!!! 1You guys always find the most amazing talent. I am always impressed.