Don Was Director's Chair Print

Thursday, May 3, 2012 1:23:52 PM America/Los_Angeles

In additon to screen printing and digitally printing on T-shirts here in Los Angeles, we have the ability to print on many different surfaces, today printing customized director's chairs for Gimme the Gig, this one for legendary Rolling Stones/Iggy Pop/Brian Wilson producer Don Was.  We printed these DTG because each director got their named customized.  We had all 5 chairs printed and done before a single screen could've been burned!
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deadmau5 Grammys 2012 t-shirt

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 6:00:18 PM America/Los_Angeles

Deadmau5 Shares Skrillex's Phone Number With Entire Grammy-Watching World 

deadmau5 peformed at the Grammys 2012 with The Foo Fighters, his Skrillex gag shirt was printed day before performance here at DIY.  

This was a digitally printed shirt with completley solid water based ink on a black shirt, which took about 3 minutes start to finish.

 


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Filter on Jimmy Kimmel

Friday, February 3, 2012 4:39:58 PM America/Los_Angeles

Filter's drummer Mika Fineo wearing a T-Shirt by our client Vagabond Kustoms on Jimmy Kimmel

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NIck Offerman Ohio St. Appearance, art by Mike Mitchell

Friday, January 27, 2012 1:54:39 PM America/Los_Angeles

Today printing 120 white DTG American Apparel tees for Nick Offerman's Ohio St. appearance, design by Mike @ http://www.sirmitchell.com

nick offerman mike mitchell tees dtg

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Silverlake Conservatory of Muisc 10 Year Anniversary

Friday, December 30, 2011 4:54:14 PM America/Los_Angeles

The El Rey Theater is Los Angeles hosted a night of performances celebrating Flea's Silverlake Conservatory of Music, we were stoked to print these tees for them!

silverlake

 

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Dogtown/Wolves Kill Sheep/Jim Muir

Friday, December 30, 2011 4:27:52 PM America/Los_Angeles

We had the great privilege of printing more shirts for the Japanese boutique collaboration between Dogtown and Wolves Kills Sheep.

All these shirts are awesome, selling like hot cakes, and are printed with a top of the line DTG process.

dogtown/wolveskillsheep/jim muir

dogtown/wolves

dogtown/wolves

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Felix Da Housecat - Disco Pinata

Tuesday, November 15, 2011 12:07:06 AM America/Los_Angeles

here's a cool pic of Felix da Housecat wearing a DIY-printed Disco Pinata shirt while filming with his homeboy "diddy".  

these shirts came out so good, completely continuous tone printed (DTG) direct to garment. we use the industry's top of the line digital t-shirt printer up in here at DIY Los Angeles.

felix da housecat diy shirts

 

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Cord Heritage Vintage Porsche T-Shirts

Wednesday, November 9, 2011 4:00:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

Printing some vintage 911 Tees for www.cordheritage.com

These shirts are printed Direct to Garment (DTG) on a digital printer, have a super soft hand, and will hold up better in the wash than a traditional screen printed t-shirt.

cord_911

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Mark Hoppus on Tour Wearing Mike Mitchell T-Shirts

Friday, October 14, 2011 5:00:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

blink 182's mark hoppus has been wearing several mike mitchell t-shirts on stage and in videos this tour, all of mike's shirts are available here

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30 Minutes or Less

Wednesday, August 3, 2011 4:50:04 PM America/Los_Angeles

Today we printed some DTG direct-to-garment tees for the people promoting 30 Minutes or Less, these shirts came out great!

30

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Silverlake Conservatory of Music

Thursday, July 14, 2011 7:09:26 PM America/Los_Angeles

Today we were super exited to help out Flea's Silverlake Conservatory of Music with a last minute job for the kids finishing music camp.  Shirts came out great and are for a great cause!

silverlake conservatory of music t-shirt 

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Wolves Kill Sheep

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 7:06:21 PM America/Los_Angeles

Just finished a few runs for our friends & neighbors in the Arts District here in Downtown LA, a clothing line called Wolves Kill Sheep, who are currenlty blowing up big in Japan. These shirts retail for $75US in Japan.

http://due.blog.ocn.ne.jp/blog/2011/05/wolves-kill-she.html

WOLVES KILLS SHEEP

wolves kill sheep

 

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Printing for Jim Carrey T-Shirt Line

Thursday, February 10, 2011 4:00:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

today we printed all samples for Jim Carrey's secret, "on the down low" new t-shirt company.  unfortuantely we can't share the images, but it was a thrill, and everyone was a dream to work with.  Jim is actually a bigtime artist; he produces paintings that are massive in size.

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DIY SHIRTS moves to the Arts District Downtown LA

Monday, January 31, 2011 4:00:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

Today we moved from Los Feliz into our marvelous new commercial loft at 915 MATEO ST, and we're loving the view!  The new location suits us well, in this thriving neighborhood. We've had a DTLA prescence since 1996 and are so happy to again be calling this place home. Our space also serves as an art gallery and music studio.

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Charlie Sheen

Tuesday, January 25, 2011 4:00:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

charlie sheen ordered 8 of these personalized, custom t-shirts for a now infamous party w/ some friends, via text, indicating proper spelling & layout. if you didn't know that charlie calls himself "the masheen", well now you do...  this was WAY before we knew charlie had #tigersblood or was diagnosed as bi-winning, and before charlie sheen t-shirts became a multi-million dollar industry.





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Sir Mitchell Webstore Launch

Sunday, January 16, 2011 4:00:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

friend of DIY, sir mike mitchell, has launched his marvelous webstore which features amazing prints & t-shirts!

sir mike mitchell was the creator of the iconic "i'm with coco" image from last year, and also has a super popular Tumblr blog

http://www.sirmitchell.com

mike mitchell

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Custom T-Shirts in Los Angeles - Design Online - DIY - Create Tees

Friday, January 14, 2011 4:00:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

Here's a direct to garment machine in action printing on a black t-shirt. One of the consistent compliments we get is that the quality is great, and it certainly is!  

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Michelle Obama Let's Move Campaign

Thursday, January 6, 2011 10:47:53 PM America/Los_Angeles

Printed for a TV commerical and print ad for Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign. 

Printing & Fedexing samples like nobody's business!

The film shoot was last week in NYC, and will feature a stop motion video of a child wearing 40-50 custom t-shirts, removing one by one.  This was an extremely unique & demanding job, requiring over one hour labor per t-shirt and a 5 day turnaround.

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The Crystal Method

Wednesday, January 5, 2011 4:00:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

Printed continuous tone multi-color tees for Steve at www.discopinata.com -  Shown here wearing one is Ken from The Crystal Method @ The Avalon Hollywood, CA...  also seen wearing a Disco Pinata shirt - felix da housecat......

ken crystal method disco pinata

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KILLING JOKE @ WILTERN

Friday, December 17, 2010 4:00:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

Today a quick t-shirt for Killing Joke's fill-in bass player, for the stage tonight at The Wiltern Theater.

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Funny or Die Custom T-Shirts

Sunday, November 7, 2010 4:00:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

Today we printed 20 custom direct to garment t-shirts for Will Ferrell's funnyordie.com, one of the most epic sites on the interweb, which will be used on a sketch...

funny or die

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Conan O'Brien TBS Opening Day

Sunday, November 7, 2010 4:00:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

This morning DIY Shirts owner Chris, with Eric Lockard of Lockard Amplification delivered and set up a Lockard 187 amplifier at Conan's new artist green room for Jack White (day 1) & Soundgarden (day 2).  The energy level very early morning at Conan's new Warner Bros. studio for his TBS debut was electric to say the least!  Conan has an extraordinary staff...  The early morning rock 'n roll was but a bit awkward, but had an absolute blast hanging out.

lockard 187 at conan's warner bros studio

 

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Rainn Wilson's Soul Pancake Book Release Party

Thursday, October 28, 2010 5:00:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

Tonight was Rainnn Wilson's SOUL PANCAKE book release party in Beverly Hills.  In attendance were Mike Mitchell (Rocket Bird T-artist), Steve Carrell, and Weird Al Yankovich.  Fun.

 

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San Francisco Photo Show @ Aversano Galleria

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 1:49:42 PM America/Los_Angeles

We took a quick trip up to Frisco for a photo exhibit at Aversano Galleria, just days before our very own Los Feliz grand opening art show.  It was my first ever photo show, entitled "Octaves" and some NorCal friends showed up for the opening.  It was during the baseball playoffs and raining cats & dogs.  Fun night...  the show ended up selling out, thanks Tony!  All of the 11 photos were goth themed for Halloween and taken in New England - mainly Salem, Marblehead, Boston & Coventry. The prints from this show will be available June 2011 here at DIYshirts.com.

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Rainn Wilson - PUNK SALESMAN GENIUS - Seattle Event

Friday, October 22, 2010 5:00:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

Today we shipped off over 300 DTG printed American Apparel tees for Rainn Wilson's big Seattle show at the Moore Theater.  Design was created by Mike Mitchell and has been a big hit, and these will surely be considered collectible.  These shirts were all printed using state of the art digital printing equipment using soft to the touch, eco-friendly water based ink.  Rainn's event was just prior to the release of his NY Times bestseller Soul Pancake and was sold out!

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World of Warcraft

Thursday, October 14, 2010 5:00:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

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DIY SHIRTS LOS ANGELES GRAND OPENING HALLOWEEN ART SHOW

Wednesday, October 13, 2010 1:20:51 AM America/Los_Angeles

Here's a few photos from our Grand Opening Halloween Party.....

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Judge Judy

Monday, October 11, 2010 7:18:11 PM America/Los_Angeles

 


Today we printed a t-shirt for Judge Judy's staff member, for the Judge's birthday.




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Cord Heritage Apparel Launch!

Saturday, December 19, 2009 6:40:46 PM America/Los_Angeles

Cord Heritage Apparel Launch @ The Petersen Museum in Hollywood December '09

DIYshirts had the great privilege of helping produce the first official clothing line for http://www.cordheritage.com which debuted at the Petersen Museum in December. All of these amazing Cord/Auburn/Duesenberg shirts & hoodies sold out fast but are now available at http://www.cordheritage.com

We screen printed 5 designs for Cord, many of which had 5-8 prints per shirt; front, back and sleeves.

All the Cord/Auburn/Dusenberg merchandise sold out quickly!

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Digital Direct to Garment (DTG) Custom T-Shirt Printing on black shirts hits Los Angeles

Monday, December 14, 2009 4:00:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

DIYshirts now doing digital printing on light & dark garments in the arts district of downtown LA.

So now you can print a painting on black a t-shirt, with amazing detail & quality!

Soft, eco-friendly, waterbased ink!

 

 

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Dr. Phil Show w/ Chad Smith

Sunday, November 29, 2009 12:16:12 AM America/Los_Angeles

Last minute rush order, worked all day on a Sunday to deliver 50 T-Shirts to the Dr. Phil Show for "Little Kids Rock Across America" featuring Chad Smith from The Red Hot Chili Peppers. This foundation donated $500,000 for music education.

http://www.drphil.com/slideshows/slideshow/5472/?id=5472&slide=1&showID=1365&preview=&versionID=

Dr. Phil Show Photos

 

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Dead by Sunrise

Monday, October 19, 2009 7:29:04 PM America/Los_Angeles

Today we printed a shirt for Ryan Shuck of Dead by Sunrise which was worn on Jimmy Kimmel Live & David Letterman

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Jane's Addiction Denver NINJA Tour

Thursday, May 28, 2009 5:00:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

1. Fan creates custom t-shirt at DIYshirts.com

2. Fan goes to Denver Jane's/Nine Inch Nails show

3. Fan gets angry with setlist and throws the shirt off his back, at Perry

4. Perry takes shirt and struts it around stage, and uses as a discussion prop for intro to "Been Caught Stealing"

5. Fan gets a standing ovation, but doesn't get his shirt back.

We're still waiting for video of the event to surface.

 

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TRIFLIN' ASS BITCH

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 4:00:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

here's a razzi shot of britney spears wearing a Kid Dangerous Sophia Loren Triflin' Ass Bitch T, which was printed here at DIY Shirts, is no longer available and considered a collector's item already.

triflin ass bitch kid dangerous

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DIABLO III T-shirts BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 5:00:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

Today we had the privilege of doing a big run of t-shirts for epic Blizzard Entertainment, for their upcoming release of Diablo III videogame. The shirts were a joke, for employees only, who wore them at a trade show.  These tees were never made available for sale, despite the huge demand.  I delivered this order to Blizzard in Irvine and the security there was tighter than any movie/tv/recording studio I've ever been to!  Here's a link to the write-up.

diablo 3

 

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Strummerville Benefit at The Key Club in Los Angeles

Thursday, December 27, 2007 4:00:00 PM America/Los_Angeles

We had the great honor of screen printing a couple hundred black, white & red 4 color T-shirts designed by Nob Suzuki for the amazing Strummerville Joe Strummer tribute at the Key Club yesterday.

This was a charity event curated by Marc Malakie and Kevin Haskins, featuring performances by Zander Schloss & The Wilderness Years, Love & Rockets, La Plebe, Mike Watt, Flea, and many others.

Spotted buying tees at the merch table downstairs were Shepard Fairey and Lea Thompson. 

This was a phenomenal show, a night to remember!

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2007/12/joe_strummer_tribute_key_club.php

 

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