Product Etc Broadcast

There were several firsts for us over the past couple of weeks. It was our first experience at the craziness that is referred to as Magic (Las Vegas), our first time walking the show room floor at Capsule (Las Vegas), and we were even up in Northern Cali to show off our first complete line of tees.

While up north we were lucky to sit down with Paul from United State (Sacramento), and have the honor of being Benny Gold’s first office meeting in his new retail/studio space (San Francisco). Needless to say they schooled us to a lot of info, and are probably two of the coolest guys you will ever come across.

R.I.P.

Visit westsidelove.us for more details.

Tonight at midnight, we’re set for the online release of Westside Love shirts consisting of five colorways for men and two colorways for women. The first 5 orders will receive a free shirt in a different color. If you think you scored soon enough you can specify a color choice in the comment box at checkout, otherwise we’ll pick it out for you. Visit our new Westside Love™ website to scoop one up and show some love for the side in which you reside!

WSL shirts are a 100% cotton and printed with water-based ink.

www.westsidelove.us

We were in Guatemala’s capital for a design project and we came across an fair amount of these bills posted along the capital’s central corridor, mostly in Zona 1. These pertain to the 40,000 “disappeared” persons from their civil war which ended in 1996 and started in 1960.

It’s currently understood that during that time, there were state sanctioned death squads enacted to terrify any opposition movement— violent or non-violent. Unfortunately for the conscious of Americans, and those who enjoy Chiquita Brands or United Fruit Company’s other products, we initiated the steps to this 40 year long conflict beginning with the 1954 Guatemalan coup d’état, which toppled democratically elected Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán. Read the rest of this entry »

Late notice but Homework Show: Assignment 2 tomorrow night here in San Diego. 30 copies of Zine #1 with 30 stickers and 30 cards are packaged and ready to trade with other zinesters. Tony and myself will be there as stand-ins for Trade&Row, Kelly Parker, the GAP kids and Product Etc.

Point of Departure
3712 30th Street
San Diego, CA

June 27th, 2009
7-9PM: VIEWING
9-10PM: SWAP
10-11PM: PARTY + Music till close

More info visit:
• Trade&Row
• Homework Show: Assignment 2