Customer Stories: Breaking a World Record!
Were you just as curious about this week’s “Ink of the Week” winner’s world record as we were? Well, this past June, residents of Cavalier, North Dakota, set about creating the world’s longest ice cream sundae… They filled 670 feet of rain gutter with 170 gallons of ice cream – not only breaking [...]
Customer Stories: T-shirt Anniversaries!
How about saying “Happy Anniversary!” with a custom t-shirt? That’s exactly what our customer Jae did. He has used the power of custom t-shirts to celebrate each anniversary with his wife of 4 years. Jae designed a custom tee to commemorate their first anniversary, and took a photo of himself and his lovely wife wearing the shirts [...]
Customer Stories: T-shirt Proposal!
Nothing says “Will you marry me?” like a custom t-shirt! At least we think so… Meet Carson, one of our customers who used the power of custom t-shirts to propose to his girlfriend over the Christmas holiday. He saved her best present for last, a package containing custom t-shirts commemorating some of the special moments of their [...]
Customer Stories: Ragnar Relays
As I was going through some Ink of the Week photos, I noticed some really active customers. Always making my lazy bones look bad! 🙂 It turns out that CustomInk has helped dress at least 19 Ragnar Relay teams since 2007! CustomInk t-shirts have been worn for thousands of miles in Arizona, Washington, Minnesota, California, New York, Utah, [...]
“Win Your Family Over” Family Reunion Contest Winner!
For our “Win Your Family Over” Family Reunion Contest on Facebook, we asked fans to write an essay of up to 500 words on why they would like CustomInk to help make their family reunion this summer one to remember… Boy, did we get some amazing responses! Seriously, there are going to be some fantastic family reunions [...]
CustomInk (almost) Runs Away with the RailsConf 5k!
I had no idea how much technology goes into the making of a custom t-shirt until I talked to our software engineers about a conference they attended last week. Apparently, our technology teams maintain over 30 applications that do everything from generating price quotes in the online Design Lab to notifying customers when their order has [...]
An Inker’s Tribute to Oprah
As you know, in the wake of family reunion t-shirt season, we commissioned a family reunion survey of 1,000 Americans to ask all kinds of related questions. The majority of survey participants chose Oprah as the celebrity who would most fit in at their family reunion. And it’s certainly timely since her last show aired this week. We have [...]
Bike to Work Day!
The Washington Area Bicyclist Association and Commuter Connections cordially invited those in the area to commute to work via bicycle on May 20th. Actually, it’s a standing invitation and Inkers often accept and bike to work rather than put another car on the road. However, May 20th is the official Bike to Work Day in the area and [...]