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  • The story behind Brazil’s iconic yellow soccer jerseys

    The story behind Brazil’s iconic yellow soccer jerseys

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    At Artik, we’ve been printing soccer uniforms since 1985. Every year more teams get started, soccer is taking off across North America! I’ve been looking into the history of some iconic custom printed uniforms. Today [..]   Read More

  • Toronto film festivals with their own branded t-shirts and apparel

    Toronto film festivals with their own branded t-shirts and apparel

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    We at Artik have been printing t-shirts in Toronto since 1985 and we’ve watched the film industry explode in the past decade. It seems like every weekend there’s a new film festival celebrating international films, [..]   Read More

  • Getting Baseball Uniforms for Your Little League Team

    Getting Baseball Uniforms for Your Little League Team

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    Seventy years after Little League started in Canada, it has grown into an institution for Canadian youth. More than 3 millions young people are playing worldwide making it the largest amateur volunteer sport organization in [..]   Read More

  • We won Colour of the Year! (kind of)

    We won Colour of the Year! (kind of)

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    You know those little colours booklets you see at the paint store? At Artik we use them all the time to make sure our inks are perfectly mixed for printing custom designs on t-shirts and [..]   Read More

  • Fresh Branding Ideas for 2020

    Fresh Branding Ideas for 2020

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    Here at Artik, we work with Canadians who are spreading the word about their project, business or brand. Here are a few tried-and-true ways to promote your message in the futuristic sounding year of 2020! [..]   Read More

  • How Podcasts Can Make Money with Merch

    How Podcasts Can Make Money with Merch

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    Did you know a third of Americans listen monthly with some averaging 6:37 hours a week! Personally I love cracking open the new episode of my favourite shows to hear about culture, science and silly [..]   Read More

  • We’re printing full-colour T-shirts!

    We’re printing full-colour T-shirts!

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    News from the Artik Toronto print shop! We’ve just purchased two awesome machines that will take our custom t-shirt printing to the next level. Meet the Direct to Garment (DTG) machine: With two new DTGs, [..]   Read More

  • How Artik came to be Named Artik

    How Artik came to be Named Artik

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      What’s in a name? Why are we named Artik? This all goes back to 1985. Fresh out of York University and chose to make my own designs on T-shirts.  I then sold them to [..]   Read More

  • Commercial animates T-shirts screen printed designs

    Commercial animates T-shirts screen printed designs

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    Interesting use of screen printed T-shirts in an ad for AGF Investments a mainstream investor company for Canadian and international companies. The ad bridges several topical ideas. Old technology, natural resources, new technology, logistics and [..]   Read More

  • Survival of the Fittest… How the YMCA stays alive in Toronto’s crowded gym market

    Survival of the Fittest… How the YMCA stays alive in Toronto’s crowded gym market

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    Have you noticed cheap gyms like Planet Fitness and GoodLife keep opening new locations across Toronto? High-end gyms are doing well too, with sophisticated fitness clubs becoming a luxury trend.   View this post on [..]   Read More

  • How to design custom t-shirts for Toronto music festivals

    How to design custom t-shirts for Toronto music festivals

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    This year a couple of Toronto’s best known music festivals are taking a break – Field Trip, Wayhome and OVO will be missed by music fans but there are a ton of music festivals happening [..]   Read More

  • How to sell your art and merchandise at TCAF | From Comic Books to T-Shirts and Lapel Pins

    How to sell your art and merchandise at TCAF | From Comic Books to T-Shirts and Lapel Pins

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    The Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) has become an incredible event drawing artists and crowds from across North America. Every May artists, publishers and writers come to Toronto to show off their latest work, take [..]   Read More

  • How to get a crowd to your record shop for Record Store Day 2020

    How to get a crowd to your record shop for Record Store Day 2020

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    In 2019, Record Store Day took Toronto like a storm. All over town, people were lugging record store branded tote bags full of vinyl records all over the city. This event gets bigger every year, [..]   Read More

  • Our favourite booths at the Toronto One of a Kind Show

    Our favourite booths at the Toronto One of a Kind Show

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    It’s early on the first morning of the Toronto One of a Kind Show and the Exhibition Place is buzzing with vendors and organizers setting up their booths. The energy is buzzing and some booths [..]   Read More

  • Instagram’s favourite patches

    Instagram’s favourite patches

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    Three years ago, I got into designing and buying embroidered patches. I found @patchgame on Instagram and was inspired by the endless world of beautiful/weird/niche patches and lapel pins. Today I’ve collected my favourite pins shared by [..]   Read More