Straight from the LavaLab, these 230 gram ladies tops are creatively fresh and make a bold statement with its shocking pink trims. Loudgear (our client) designed these tops to ensure  that the Queens of  Tugwell Hall at UCT are hip and happening – but this was a task intensive process that had us biting our nails right up to the last minute because of its extremely tight deadline.

Here’s a summarized version of what happened:

1. We developed patterns from scratch according to the client’s specification and size curve
2. sourced 230 gram ribbed fabric (black) at a price that was good enough to maintain the client’s budget
3. dyed the pink fabric according to clients specification
4. supplied fit samples
5. processed artwork for screen printing
6. processed artwork for digitizing
7. cut and soabarred the garment panels to ensure that all panels and sizes were easily identifiable
8. pre-planned printing and embroidery to ensure consistency in  colours for printed and embroidered finishes i.e. the print colours had to match the embroidered colours.
9. also ensuring that the sizing of the print and embroidered logos were suitable for all the garment sizes (small to 3 Xlarge)
10. sent the appropriate panels for printing (2 colours sleeve, 2 colours back)
11. sent the panels for embroidery
12. assembled the garments
13. quality checked and removed rejects
14. ironed and flat-packed
15. re-did  all rejects.

All of this in 16 days.

The result is a beautifully mass produced garment that could be mistaken for something that was bought from a designer store like YDE or Lacoste.

PS. Apologies for the low quality images

The days of web designers are numbered. Better technology leads to better technology and this is why technology is such a wonderful thing.  Yola is an example of the evolution of technology which allows one to build a website without having programming experience.

One thing that we’ve learnt from being an online company is that businesses that utilize the internet as their main marketing tool and make a living from it, are more likely to use other businesses that are internet based.It is probably because as an online company you know that other internet businesses are the same as you are (ethically) and therefore you are more trusting towards them. So if you are still advertising in the Yellow Pages your days are numbered as well because in this fast-paced world of business, nobody has the time (or the muscle) to pick up a heavy book to look for a company,product or service and ….it requires the turning of pages. The www is growing, so that means that there will be more people wanting to use internet based businesses, which means if you don’t have an optimised website, you are not going to be found. The internet is filled will young, time-strapped “internetters” with loads of cash who need to do business quickly.

About Yola

Yola brings website building to the rest of us. Small businesses. Groups and organizations. Non-profits. Your Aunt Martha. The guy in the next cube. Everyone.

Our website builder lets you easily take what’s in your head and turn it into webpages in front of your eyes. Yola lets you make great-looking sites with webpages that work beautifully together.  We do it without imposing banner ads or throwing up pop-up ad windows everywhere.

taken from yola.com

Thank you Yola for trusting Lava Ink with your t shirts.

yola t shirts

Described as the “woosie version of goth” with darkness its inspiration, Emo’s by Cosmic Casual T’s are up for sale. These cool sick t shirts make a statement and is a must have if you are an EMO/ Emotionally Mutilating Organism.

There are currently 3 versions on sale (one sicker than the other).

All t shirts were printed by lavaink.

The University of Cape Town students were the first to purchase our newly styled ladies 165gram fitted t shirts. Composed of a Cotton/Lycra blend, they great for printing on and have a really cool snug fit.

Shot in Cape Town, this prequel to Universal’s 2002 actioner “The Scorpion King” tells the back story of Mathayus (played in the first film by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who doesn’t appear in the sequel), depicting how he became a great warrior and eventually the Scorpion King. Russell Mulcahy (“Highlander”) directs the film, which is co-produced by David Wicht of Film Afrika.
taken from The Hollywood Reporter

Lava Ink has just finished some t shirts for the crew and they came out great. We used 180 gram crew-neck t shirts for the guys, which are 100% cotton (ideal for team wear because of its durability) The ladies got something a bit more fitted, the 220 gram crew neck 1×1 rib tops, which are also made of 100% cotton.

Coty job

Originally uploaded by Lava Ink Cape Town call us on 021 674 3253 or 084 839 3371 for a printing quote on promotional items such as these .

Our client needed a special make-up on a promotional t shirt. The t shirt had to match the packaging of a perfume, that was to be launched in 10 days from when we first received the order. It was a really hectic but we made the delivery date even though we had to source the fabric, do the patterns and print the garment.