Underground Printing’s attempt to articulate the goings-on in the world of apparel - and some other stuff too.
>Everyone knows that UGP loves its old school hip hop (check out this concert co sponsored by UGP Morgantown):
But lately, UGP has been the place to go for up and coming rappers. The latest is 6′6 240 (yeah, thats his name too). A local rapper from Morgantown, WV - he has written a rap for [...]
I love it when UGP employees do cool things outside of Underground Printing (and inside Underground Printing). I found out today that one of our graphic designers, Ryan W. who is a very talented artist, won the “How Sweet the Sound” Community Art competition and had his art selected to represent the city of Detroit!
Ryan [...]
If you have ever seen the show “Shark Tank” on ABC, you know that there are a lot of long awkward pauses, that Kevin guy is a real jerk, and you need confidence, good negotiating skills, and a great product/company to get your investment money. Luckily UGP customer Sawyer Sparks, founder of Soy-Yer Dough, has [...]
From time to time, Underground Printing gets requests for custom printed apparel from our troops while they are overseas. Its an honor and a privilege, and we are proud to do it. However, usualy, we never get to see our shirts in action. But the men and women of FOB Farah (FOB stands for Forward [...]
Who is Yaoki Ishii? And what does that have to do with UGP?
Yaoki Ishii (see below) is currently the 989th ranked tennis player in the world. He hails from Japan, and from the looks of his picture, has an amazing serve complimented by excellent fashion sense.
Underground Printing (see below) is currently the 989th fastest growing [...]
Last week while Reej was out, Live! with Regis and Kelly held a contest called “Local to Live” where Local TV hosts and anchors had a chance to be Kelly’s co-host. Cities where two of our stores are located were represented: Jason Colthorp out of WILX-10 in Lansing and Jeff Varner out of WMMT in [...]
You may have heard of Dancing with the Stars but Dancing with the…Professors? This hilarious idea comes from customers of our Indiana store, who use the event to showcase their talents for the hometown crowd. Below you can see them sporting custom printed track jackets and showing a Professor how to “get jiggy” (thats a [...]
Every so often Underground Ryland and I get antsy ants-ni about the name of the Blog. With so many good names out there, when we think of one we don’t want to just let it go. While brainstorming stupid twitter names, Rylo came up with “House of Tee’s” and I added “UGP”. Hence: UGP’S HOUSE [...]
When you’re in central Illinois, everything is about Honest Abe. That’s why everyone at our Champaign store is celebrating Lincoln’s 200th birthday on February 12th. We’ve been lucky enough to partner up with The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Illinois to celebrate this great event. Underground Printing was asked to screenprint 1,500 commemorative shirts [...]
We here at UGP are always looking to lend a helping to any good causes we stumble upon. The Madison, WI area JULES group is definitely no exception. “SOBER…it’s the new black” is the motto of the JULES Group, an area teen sobriety group that formed when Julie Zdeblick, a model student and Middleton High [...]
This video was taken in our shop this morning as we started screenprinting over 16,000 shirts for the 2009 AFC Champion Pittsburgh Steelers.
So this doesn’t really have much to do with shirts (other than all the t-shirt boxes you see in the background), but we felt a responsibility to post this picture for the world to see.
The gentlemen you see below is UGP’s own Brian Lieber, Shop Manager and Shipper Extroardinaire. When Brian orders food, it usually [...]
That’s right - Cricket. As an Indian and former resident of West Lafayette, I was excited to hear about the shirts we have been printing for the PCL: Purdue Cricket League. As I learned more about the league, I was thoroughly impressed with its seriousness and complexity. Founded by Arjun Shah in 2007, this league [...]
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, accounting for 29% of all cancer deaths. Last year an estimated 213,380 new cases were diagnosed, and 160,390 patients passed away. Over 7% of Americans will develop lung cancer within their lifetime, with 84% of those [...]
We here at UGP are suckers for a nice RomCom (thats Romantic Comedy for you rookies), so when Mark contacted us about making shirts to help him propose to his girlfriend Lori at the Yankees/Red Sox game July 26th at Fenway, we were falling all over ourselves to be a part of it. Mark printed [...]
The season premiere of Entourage was last night, judging by the general awesomeness of Adrian Grenier’s beard in the first 15 minutes, its gonna be a good season. UGP had its own encounters with Entourage through its customer WeSC. Underground helped produce 35 custom WeSC Boingo Headphones for the cast at the Entourage Season 5 [...]
…there’s just nothing like it. Underground Printing’s Ann Arbor location (located at 1103 South University) joined up with Ulrich’s Bookstore (also our neighbor) and Domino’s Pizza (also an Ann Arbor original) for some good, clean, t-shirt fun during Welcome Week at the University of Michigan. Probably the only good, clean fun that these students had [...]
Last weekend, Underground Printing employee Sara went to a party for her brother, Brian Rafalski. One of the other attendees of this party was a fellow by the name of Stanley Cup - you see, Brian Rafalski is a member of the NHL Champion Detroit Red Wings. Sara was sporting some UGP Gear while partying [...]
Underground Printing had the privelege of printing shirts for the Hope Shines Foundation. Joelle recently spent two weeks in Rwanda and we are extremely impressed and proud of the everything she has accomplished.
Congratulations Joelle! You can learn more about the the Hope Shines Foundation at: http://hopeshinesfund.blogspot.com/
So while driving on the highway last night I had an interesting encounter with a tire which renewed my faith in the awesome power of t-shirts. I ran over a random stupid tire on the off ramp because I could not swerve out of the way. The tire tore my plastic undercarriage bumper guard thing [...]