Dino Bangiorno has joined eXtendTech, a Montville, New Jersey-based NetSuite solution provider with a focus on the promotional products industry, as the director of distributor applications and services. Bangiorno has more than 17 years of experience in the promotional products industry and is the former application development team lead…
Read MoreReusable Water Bottle Trend Update: Camping-Style Bottles Are Coming Back (Also, ‘Gorpcore’ Is a Thing)
Now more than ever, reusable water bottles are a must-have item everywhere we go. But, not all reusable water bottles are created equal. They all serve the same purpose, but there’s a lot more than functionality that goes into whether an end-user likes their water bottle. They’ve become a fashion item of sorts, and trends…
Read MoreLed Zeppelin Is Celebrating Its 50th Anniversary With Promotional Snowboards, Vans Branded Apparel
For the opening track on their 1969-issued eponymous debut album, Led Zeppelin chose to blast eardrums with “Good Times, Bad Times.” Five decades after the release, one can easily say that the English rockers have experienced more of the former than of the latter, and Vans is helping to commemorate the nine-tune masterpiece’s anniversary through…
Read MoreApple Came So Close to Putting USB-C on iPhones This Year
Here’s a very timely Valentine’s Day poem for you: Roses are red Iowa State is the Cyclones We’re never going to get USB-C on iPhones This is something we’ve been monitoring for a while. Every time there are rumblings of a new iPhone, we wonder whether Apple will get with the trend (a trend it…
Read MoreHere Are Two Very Cool Stories About Bobbleheads
Thanks to two amazing bobblehead promotions, we feel inclined to unite the sentiments, as an MLB squad and a minor league club announced plans to honor not on-field superstars, but a pair of regular folks with ties to the teams…
Read MoreHow a Personalized Promo Gift Led to a Million-Dollar Donation
Have you ever seen a person receive a product that immediately made them happy? Well, have you ever seen someone so happy that they pledged to donate an additional million dollars to the foundation that gave them the gift? Don Sanders of Don Sanders Marketing and owner of SellPromoProducts.com has. He gave us the details…
Read MoreDepartment of Labor Eliminates Printing, Screen Printing Jobs From Statistics Database (and What That Means)
The Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics announced this month that “printer,” “screen printer” and “support activities for printing” are no longer official jobs as far as far as its concerned. Each year, the DOL lists industries and jobs that become too small or concentrated to be tracked in its Current Employment Statistics database.…
Read MoreThe NBA All-Star Game’s ‘NBA Jam’ Tees Are Nostalgia Done Right
Weirdly, I’ve been playing a ton of NBA Jam lately, so I have a heightened sense of jubilation any time the subject matter comes up. So, when I saw that there are going to be some amazing NBA Jam-inspired tees at the NBA All Star Game weekend in Charlotte, N.C., I nearly fell off my chair…
Read MoreBleacher Report Is Planning a Huge Apparel, Merchandise Expansion
Last week, we reported that Bleacher Report, the digital publisher known for its sports coverage, was becoming a branded apparel company after it announced it would sell merchandise in collaboration with NBA star Dwyane Wade. We meant it kind of jokingly, but it looks like we were more right than we imagined, as the company has now unveiled a plan to offer 600 apparel items and other merchandise by year’s end…
Read MoreGucci’s ‘Blackface’ Sweater Fiasco Teaches Valuable Lesson in How Not to Design Apparel
This has been a rough week for Gucci. Here’s the abridged version: Last week, Gucci unveiled a black balaclava-style sweater that featured exaggerated red lips around the mouth cut-out. Social media users immediately raked the company over the coals, calling its new sweater a blackface design.
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