Archive for January, 2009

Are we really in 2009? It seems waaaay too early, but here we are! This is when we look back through our emails, order database, art files, and photographs to see what the heck it was we did all of 2008 that kept us running in circles. So let’s see…

Close to ten thousand designs breezed through here this year, so there are tons to look back on. It seemed best for us to just round up highlights for 2008 we felt summed up the past year.

Of course local customers stand out, as these are the people we see face-to-face throughout the year. Not only do we see them when they stop by our office and place orders, they’re even sitting across the dining room at a restaurant wearing t-shirts we printed.

Since 2006, we have been printing the t-shirts for the Glasgow Highland Games. The four-day event is held each year on the weekend following Memorial Day at the Barren River Lake State Resort Park. Nearly 20,000 people from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain attend this south-central Kentucky celebration, and the festival has sold out of t-shirts each year we have printed them. We now start preparing the artwork for this shirt nine months before the event, and the client decided to pre-print t-shirts for 2009 to sell at events leading up to the Games. All we can say is, wow!

During the summer, we printed shirts for the Bowling Green East (11-12 year old) baseball team. The “All Stars” were preparing for an upcoming weekend full of baseball and wanted to represent their team. Following that weekend, they decided to order more t-shirts as they had won several games and were moving up in the league, eventually moving on to the state championship. Within a month period we printed four different t-shirt designs for them. Megan, our receptionist, has many memories of this particular client: “As their customer service representative, it was fun to keep up and be able to follow along with their status. When they were on the news, I enjoyed watching their time on the air and picking out the shirts that BlueCotton had produced for them.”

BG East fans cheer for their 16-6 win over Indiana during the final day of pool play in the 2008 Little League Great Lakes Regional Tournament in Indianapolis. Photograph by Joe Imel, Bowling Green Daily News

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