At JeaP.co.uk, we get a lot of requests for T-shirts with images on.
Most of the time our clients provide their own photograph, which is of course copy write free.
So, what do you do, it you need an image for your shirt, that you did not take the photograph of?

Firstly, what a lot of our client’s don’t realise is that to just ‘borrow’ an image from the internet or someone else’s website is actually illegal. Secondly, by lifting an image directly from the internet the quality tends to be quite poor. Internet images are low resolution, designed to upload quickly on the net, for print purposes, we require good quality high resolution images.

Be careful, one of our client’s spent a lot of time and money having her catalogue photographed, put it up on her website, only to find that a competitor had come along and swiped the majority of the images for his own site, short of taking him to court there was nothing she could do.
However if you’re the one swiping and you manage to swipe a big companies images and they find out, then you really will not have a leg to stand on and will find yourself owing a lot of money!
Our advice, use stock imagery for your shirts, e-mails, blogs and websites. However, buying all of those images online can be expensive, so what’s the alternative?

Check out some of our favourite sites for free stock imagery that are safe to use, here are some of the best.

Firstly try www.Morguefile.com – a free public image archive for creatives by creatives. I did a few searches on this site and there were a lot of great quality images available to use on shirts and blogs etc. for free. A site that is definitely worth checking out!

Another firm favourite is www.sxc.hu. They have close to 394,000 photos available online that you can use for free.

One more tip if you register with www.istockphoto.com (which is free to do), you can download their free picture every week. This is a great way to build up a collection of images.

For free clip art and some vector images try www.clker.com.

Note: Always check the sites terms and conditions to make sure that your specific use of the photos or artwork does not violate their policies. It is your responsibility to make sure you are following their rules.

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Whether you love it or hate it, if you live in England you can’t avoid the Olympics and all of the hype that goes with it.
We are only five weeks away from the New Year and the start of 2012. The big clock is counting, I’ve seen it with my own eyes, Trafalgar Square is now home to the Olympic Countdown Clock and what a hideous monster that is, thank goodness it’s only there for another 241 Days, 22 Hours, 31 Minutes and 34 Seconds, strike that 33 Seconds, oh you get the idea…
With such a short space of time left till the start of the New Year and more importantly to the start of ‘The Games’ the UK is set to go crazy with Olympic fever.
So how can we, as the host nation, cash in on some of the spoils of the Games?
Economically, the Olympics have been like a money tornado, striking one house and leaving the neighbour’s untouched. Hotels and restaurants expect booming business, whilst Florists will spend the summer twiddling their thumbs, hoping to be picked as the official supplier of the celebration bouquet.
One thought, is to become an official tour guide of Stratford and Olympic historian, sadly this vocation is for anorak wearers only and one career I will choose to avoid. Or perhaps if not a tour guide, I could become a play write, portraying tales of great woe & even greater joy at historic Olympic triumphs. Hmm can’t see the Royal Shakespeare going for that!
So for us, mere shirt providers, we will stick with tradition and advise you all to be visible. London is going to be crawling with tourists and if you’re in business in London, you and your staff need to be seen. Clever advertising campaigns will no doubt be swamping the market, but a good old silent salesman, brandishing your sales message or logo on the back of a polo shirt, will always do the trick.
So come on, jump on our Olympic bandwagon, we are an Official Supplier to a rather large construction company, who built a rather large village, for the odd 1 or 2 thousand athletes, who will be coming to stay in Stratford, at the Summer Olympic Games 2012.
If we’re good enough for them, we will certainly be of Olympic standard for you!

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This year JeaP Clothing is a proud sponsor of the world famous modelling contest, Elite Model Look UK 2011.

To celebrate we have offered a unique promotional code to all guests attending the final event.
Simply enter your code in our shopping cart, or quote it for telephone orders, to receive your 15% discount, on all orders over £100.

JeaP provided the printed ‘Goodie Bags’ for this year’s EML Final.
Interested in ordering a similar promotional bag for your company or event, then call us direct on 020 8523 1617.

This will be the third annual contest in the UK which has had the Elite scouts scouring the country for potential professional models and for the very first time they have also been searching for male models this year too.

Winners from past contests have been fortunate enough to have appeared on catwalks around the globe, feature in top fashion magazines and been used for new campaigns for some of the very best fashion designers.

JeaP Clothing – an official sponsor of Elite Model Look 2011.

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Moody Cows had the most successful season to date in 2010 making the finals of the Bournemouth 7s and the Semi Finals in Newquay. More successfully though they came away with wins at both the Lytchett 7s and the famous Stockholm International 10s tournament.
With the 2011 rugby sevens season about to take off, Moody Cows are preparing for a fun filled summer starting with the defending of the title at Lytchett on Sunday 1st May followed by the memorial Kay Cary 7s tournament in Dorset in memory of their founder member Kay Booker.
The bank holiday weekend at the end of May sees the Moody Cows head back to Bournemouth to try and make it third time lucky and come away with the title of Bournemouth 7s Champions.

Moody Cows have just named Macmillan Cancer Support as their official charity and will now be officially affiliated with the cancer charity helping to raise money and awareness for Macmillan as well as playing the sport they love. On Saturday 7th May, Moody Cows host their annual fundraiser at Cheshunt Rugby Club in Hertfordshire where they hope to raise money for Macmillan whilst playing a rugby 7s tournament, BBQ, bouncy castle, cake stall and much more.

For all the up to date news with the Moody Cows, see our Recent Press Release

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Just like in a dream Michelle arrived with a ferry on the river. There were decorative hearts, flowers and inspirational words hanging from a huge tree. The one providing shade to the guests who were seated on white linen covered seats – all contributing to the magical mood of this special day.  Mofam River Lodge close to Grabouw, South Africa was the perfect location. Situated between these massive mountains next to a crystal clear river.

So how did JeaP get to hear of this joyful couple. Michelle contacted us in November last year, requesting some personalised embroidery on her entourages prenuptial attire. She wanted the girls and herself to have their body wraps individually embroidered with their names on. Michelle sourced the cute towelling bodywraps and after a colour & design consultation with Michelle we came up with just the look she wanted.

As you can see in the pictures below we did a good job of naming everyone, including Michelle. The names were embroidered in deep crimson red to match the colour scheme and outlined in silver grey.

Personalised Embroidery

Embroidered Names

What an amazing time they had with the photo shoot! Johan and Michelle decided on the old school ‘Just Married’ suitcases as props to fit their fairytale theme. With the river, mountains and vineyards as the perfect backdrop, their photo’s are so impressive we thought you might like to see more.

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This must watch video is great to watch and see just how much fun this amazing couple had – follow their story on their fairytale day.

Nothing short of stunning!

Johan & Michelle’s wedding music video from Jacques Burger on Vimeo.

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The fashion for staff to wear uniform has fluctuated over the recent decades and now more than ever it has become a popular addition to any business. Both large corporations and small one man bands have opted for the smarter line of wearing staff uniform. With accessibility booming over the Internet, the costs of producing personalised uniform has dropped dramatically and it is now extremely easy to kit out your staff smartly and cost effectively.

Having a personalised uniform or customised work wear offers employers and employees a host of benefits:

• A well turned out employee will give customers a positive image of your company by wearing staff uniform or logo embellished work wear. Reports show, that customers feel more confident in staff who arrive in smart logo marked clothing, as opposed to scruffy non-uniformed workmen. The first impression is that if the company do not care how their staff are presented, then what will the standard of work be like. First impressions count and uniform boosts your chances of success on a job by as much as 78%!.

• As a business owner how would you feel about having daily free advertising. With customised staff clothing that carries your company name or logo, your name is displayed wherever your people go. Just like a walking billboard your staff will be constantly promoting your business.

• Another advantage to your customers is making your staff easily recognisable.  In some environments, you need customers to easily identify your staff. They need to know the difference between customers and staff and in some cases also the level of staff. Different styles of clothing can help customers to recognise who is in charge and therefore assess who can best help them if they have a query.

• The clothing you choose for your employees is generally practical & hard wearing, it also helps if it matches the environment of the company. Colour and design can include the brand logo or symbol. Choosing a corporate image for your company and carrying it through to your staff uniforms is essential. Try differentiating the colours from the upholstery that may be used in the office or restaurant furniture.

• Your staff will have a sense of unity and belonging. Uniforms have a positive impact on people’s behaviour – they know when they are wearing staff clothing, their behaviour can reflect well or poorly on their employer and they are therefore more conscious of their actions.

• Staff find it easy to wear uniform, no more choices of what to put on every day or damage to their own clothing.

• Normally tax relief cannot be claimed by an employee for clothing. However, the Revenue will grant relief for specialist clothing (including a uniform in certain circumstances) if the employer requires the employee to provide this at his (or her) own expense. Tax relief may also be available to the employee on the cost of repairing and cleaning this kind of clothing.

So all in all there are numerous benefits to supplying your staff with uniform, in short, your staff will be smarter, more easily recognised and best of all, give you FREE advertising.

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Or Here Comes Trouble – well not really lovely Graham Norton is not what you’d call you’re everyday trouble maker.
Given the hoo-ha that surrounded Jonathan Ross’ departure from the BBC, you might have expected the broadcaster to replace him with a sensible, toe-the-line type.
Not a bit.
Woosy’s Friday night chat show has been taken over by the far from shy Graham Norton, who has dipped his toes in controversial waters once or twice himself.
So when Buzz magazine ask us to design a T-shirt for Graham that reads:’Here Comes Trouble’, he not only gets the joke, he grabs it, runs with and crashes over the finishing line.
The custom made T-shirt for Graham was put together in two days from start to finish, it started with an exasperated phone call from the producers at Buzz Magazine who had spent the whole day trying to find a company to make these sparkly rhinestone special shirts.
With over 4,500 stones in each shirt, they were painstakingly put together to produce a stunning and definitely, in your face design for Graham to wear.
At 47 years old, Graham has all the character and certainly a trim physic to carry it off. We doubt he will be lending his shirts to anyone else either, but perhaps he should, if he invites Sharon Osbourne onto his show again. After her infamous moment last year on Graham’s show when she bubbled up in hatred, over her younger X Factor co-judge Danni Minogue. Sharon’s impression of Danni was jaw dropping , when she pointed to her backside, it was event TV.
“It was an extraordinary moment,” Graham saysnow. “I thought it was very funny, but I ended up feeling a little bad for Danni, even though I started it. It just took off.

So keep our number handy Graham, you may just need another customised design to get across you message – mabey the next one should say ‘Host with the Most’, as he certainly will have. Not only has he scooped the Friday night TV show, but also the Saturday morning Radio 2 programme.
Good Luck Graham, though we doubt that you will need it as you really are a very sparkly guy!

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Race to Dakar Bike Suits

One such example was Charley Boorman and his team when they took part in the Race to Dakar. Five individually crafted bike suits had over 30 badges made and stitched on by hand for this phenomenal event. We were given the brief of over 15 sponsors and only four days in which to produce 150 badges and get them on the bike suits. The Paris – Dakar is the toughest endurance race of it’s kind and the badges we produced had to be just as tough and also stay on the garments. One of the badges attached to the jacket, had the life saving information of the blood type of the rider, vital if the participant was injured and needed a blood transfusion. When we get asked to make embroidered badges, we have to ask the client a few questions in return. These are essential to ensure that we get the right concept straight away, there generally isn’t much time as most of the clients that require badges are from either a production company or are on a film set or photo shoot, which is normally taking place that day & the next. Wardrobe you have our sympathies. If you are on a production team and looking for some badges, it’s helpful to know the following:

• Have the correct artwork – you’d be surprised how many times we’re given the wrong files
• Know the dimensions for the final size of the badge
• Be Pantone specific, greeny blue could mean anything and it’s really not worth upsetting your producer
• Confirm the use of the badge e.g. will it need to be fire resistant, we have specialist threads that are fire retardant
• Know how you would like it finished and in what colour i.e. does it require a satin stitch edge the same as the background colour or a different colour
• Tell us the timescale – vital so we can get the job done in time, we’ve often ended up working 48 hour shifts to produce some work, because someone forgot to mention that it was needed for tomorrow!!
• Important to us – who will be paying? Have their name & the company address including the department & postcode.

Once we have ALL that, we can give you an idea of time,price and compatibility for the job. It’s tough for us making badges, but we try to rise to the challenge and if you check out our gallery, we think you’ll agree we do a pretty good job. For more info on Embroidered Badges or any other Bespoke Service please Contact Us

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Sorcher’s production team contacted us on the morning of the day that he was shooting his latest video for his first big release. Could we produce some T-shirts, printed two colour in various combination for that afternoon. Naturally we rose to the challenge and with some great team work, we got the job done with time to spare.

Since that day – Scorcher and the crew have been back on a couple of occasions for more shirts, the man himself, has launched his own clothing label – The Skywalker Range – and now calls on us to produce his last minute wardrobe items.

Last week he met up with Snop Dog, for a publicity shoot and we came to the rescue again.

We’ve included a snippet from the lastest video, which has a good view of our T-shirts.

If you like the shirts we produced for Scorcher, why not Contact Us to find out how we did it and more importantly how we could do it for you.

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One such team were the guys from Skillset. They supplied their own shirts and asked us to print a simple black logo on the front.

Michael Brandon the organiser kept his promised and sent in the team shot of the guys wearing the shirts – this is what he said and it made us laugh so much in the office that we just had to share it!

Just checking in (as promised) with the results of our football tournament.

We got into the quarter finals of the plate competition – so finished in the top 16 out of 52!

We’re very proud of ourselves, and have plenty of injuries to show for it (note the blood on the shirt of the fella on the far right!).
We have a team photo attached. Although – it was taken at the end of the day, so we’re a bit worse for wear.
The kits looked fantastic with the print – thanks so much!

Skillset are a charitable organisation, for more details on what they do

http://www.skillset.org  or Follow them on Twitter: @skillsetssc
Delivering skills for Creative and Digital Britain

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