Miellyn is the Director of Marketing Content at Custom Ink. Her work has spanned marketing for television networks like TLC and Travel, educational content for Smithsonian and National Geographic, marketing and story for indie video games, essays for publishers including Random House, The Telegraph, and Smart Pop Books, and stories for press outlets like VICE and VH1.
Cancer Can’t Kill Love
Meaghan McGoldrick had lost both of her parents to cancer by the time she was 22 years old. Her father John Patrick “Butch” McGoldrick, an ironworker, passed in 2008 from lung cancer caused by his work at Ground Zero, and her mother Joanne died just five years later after a short bout with leukemia. After she lost her mother, [...]
16 ‘Dad Jokes’ Perfect for Father’s Day Shirts
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? Okay, but seriously, dad jokes are the best jokes, and while you don’t have to be a father to appreciate them, they are a great way to relate to the men you know who happen to have a kid or two running around. This Father’s Day, tell all the dads in your life that you love [...]
Changing the World One Lawn (and T-shirt) at a Time
A man, a lawn, and a t-shirt design are working on changing the world. On a fateful day in 2015, Alabama A&M Computer Science major Rodney Smith Jr. was running late for class when he drove past an elderly man struggling to mow his lawn. Seeing how difficult it was for the man to get the job done, Rodney put all thoughts of school [...]
8 Mother’s Day Shirts That Tell It Like It Is
Moms, it’s time to celebrate you. Another year of hand holding, tear drying, clothes washing, and bedtime story reading is coming to an end. I know! Where did the time go? Gretchen Rubin wasn’t kidding when she said, “The days are long but the years are short.” And nobody knows that better than moms. Another almost as wise saying (that [...]
Do Androids Dream of Custom Shirts?
Since 1999, robots have been systematically coming to life at a suburban Maryland high school. This group of students and their mentors at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring call themselves FRC Team 449: The Blair Robot Project and are dedicated to learning engineering through building robots and competing with other robotics [...]
A New Spin on Custom Merch
Darryl Cohen AKA DJ D-Skillz was just 14 years old when he started DJing more than 30 years ago. Since then, he’s played his mix of hip-hop, R&B, funk, soul, go-go, pop, house, and reggae music over the airwaves and in clubs around the world. When he was preparing to drop his first full-length release, the electronic music album, [...]
Making Birthday Magic with Custom Shirts
All Faith Vazzana wanted was to spend her birthday at Disneyland. What better way to celebrate getting another year older than reminiscing about all the fun things about being young? Together for a little over a year, Faith says her boyfriend, Caesar Robinson, loved the fact that this was the way she wanted to spend her next birthday. [...]
Celebrating Black History with Because of Them We Can
For February, we are recognizing an innovative social change organization that grew out of Black History Month. Since its inception six years ago, Because of Them We Can has evolved into a movement to celebrate Black history and excellence all year long. Here is its story.In January 2013, photographer and mother of two Eunique Jones [...]