Trials and Tribulations (mild ones anyway) 09.08.09


We're not just designing and building our own screenprint studio but we're even making our own tools now, check out Georgias' new set square.

We will now reveal our best kept secret - Antonio Labruna, he is a nice gentlemen who we have enslaved and keep in a dark cupboard and bring out from time to time to attend to all our building needs. No, Antonio is one of those amazing people who is not even a screen-printer but is interested in helping out with the project and comes on a regular basis to get embroiled in our madness.

It can be hard work, mentally challenging and often frustrating - the amount of times one has to find tools anew each session just because they have been mislaid again, half-way through something just to realise you're missing something from the DIY store or haven't got the right tool, things just not working how you want them to - the amount of times you have to cut a piece of wood because you just keep getting the measurements wrong and just being plain overwhelmed by the lack of knowledge and having to learn something quite big from scratch. These are just some of the trials and tribulations that can come from a project like this, but one doesn't stop the smiles, sense of achievement and empowerment that one feels at the end of each day, when even just one small step of progress is made, especially when you share this feeling with a load of other crazy people.