Yo! Today I want to start sharing some small improvements around the shop. Interested? Good! https://youtu.be/NlATW0VpYGA Alright, so since is the first video of this kind I want to say a couple things first. Number one, please excuse the overall production of the improvement clips. We're...
Yo, it's Cory here at Floodway an I'm here to talk about one of my favourite effects, tonal prints, or tone on tone. Tonal prints are super soft, easy to print to keep your costs low, and they look outstanding, definitely one of my favourite...
It’s a new year today, January 1st and I wanted to jump on the bandwagon a bit here make a quick year-end thank you video and blog post to talk about upcoming ideas and direction of our new Youtube channel. https://youtu.be/B1lXpNSS4k0 There’s already more than 50 subscribers...
Hiring a local artist or design agency to help with your merchandise is a great idea - but any order can go smoother when the right people are making the right decisions. Confirming some parts of the order before the designs are finalized can help...
This summer marks a big milestone for us at Floodway, and we almost missed it during our busiest summer so far - it's our privilege to be celebrating FIVE WHOLE YEARS IN BUSINESS! It's been a wild ride, from figuring out how to make screens...
There are hundreds of screen printing companies across Canada, dozens in Winnipeg, and countless more worldwide. So how do you choose the best shop to handle your orders? Before starting Floodway in 2014, we struggled through many different screen printers for our personal projects, eventually...
For any custom apparel order, one of the first choices to be made is the method you’ll use to get your design or brand onto the garment. Screen Printing is one of many options available, but each method has its pros and cons. We’ll go...
Our eyes can be easily deceived when we view colour, and understanding the limitations of colour perception helps achieve clear expectations for colour accuracy. The deception is mostly due to our brain, which is processing a ton of information and doing the best it can....
What is a halftone? Screen printing is a 'spot colour' process - this means that each colour is printed using a mixed ink, and each colour has its own screen to transfer the image onto the garment. Halftones are tiny dots used to recreate shades...
Converting text to outlines is an essential step of creating 'print-ready' artwork. Applications like Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop use fonts installed on the users' computer. When a file is sent with a custom font it can cause a lack of consistency if another viewer,...