In Case You Didn't Know...

This is a little late, but if you didn't know, we got an official website. Go to www.theincorporatedclothing.com and you can keep updated on how things are going around The INC! Stewart really did his thing on the site. It's not 100% but we'll get it there soon. So keep checking for news, new designs, tweets and everything else incorporated.

Urbanity 2

We're on the shelves! The homie Lee over at Urbanity is selling some of our Statue shirts for us in his store. It's an awesome spot that sells Imaginary Foundation, Casual Industrees, Kid Robot, Emnace and now, The INC! Get over there soon cause there are not too many left!

Urbanity

We got some exciting news this week. There is a shop here in Seattle called Urbanity and they just agreed to do a run of our Statue of Liberty shirts. It's a small order, but it's a start. We're delivering the shirts sometime this week and they should be available then, but act quick because there won't be too many of them down there. The shop is at 5101 25th Ave NE in the U District. It's a great little shop carrying some sweet sneakers as well as a lot of our favorite clothing brands. So stop by sometime in the next week, pick up the Statue shirt if you haven't done so already and say hi to Lee, the owner. Tell him the INC! sent you.


Check out their website and blog here.

"Our" Logos

Even though they suck, we got mad love for our teams.

The Bluff

Recently, we were contacted by our school, University of Portland, to design a t shirt for the Freshmen Class Service Day. Someone at the school found our story in the Ballard News Tribune on the Google News Feed and contacted us about working together. It's not a for sure thing yet but I thought I would let whoever reads this thing a look at what we've been working on:
We started with this old Golden State Warriors logo. Very simple and classic, using an important landmark as the basis for the image.

So we took that image and applied it to life at University of Portland. Lots of people call our school "The Bluff," so we went with that nickname and used the chapel and new bell tower (which should be at least 3 times as tall) as our landmark. Put it all together with a little Purple Pride in the colors and this is what comes out:

This may not be the very, very final design, but it's at least the basic idea. Thought I would let our readers check it out.
Oh and one other thing. Our computer man, Stew, came up with this genius idea for the logo. All of our shirts include a The INC! logo in the back neck of the shirt, but for this project, we came up with something special:

boom.
So there you go. This is what we've been working on as of late. Still trying to get a real website together, should be done soon and hopefully we're finishing up the graphics for another t-shirt run. Exciting things...

Learn How To Dress - Lily Allen

This chick has the look down. Dresses and sneakers is an amazing combo. I hear she has kind off gone of the deep end but she's still got her awesome style.

Extra! Extra! Read All About Us!

So this week we got some shine in our local paper, the Ballard News Tribune. An old middle school friend of mine now works (and essentially runs) the paper and through some connects we hooked back up for an interview and story. We're super excited about the press and the support we've already received from people who have read it. You can read the whole story here.
Notice the comment on the bottom that says we are "cuties".
We're (Stewart) working on a new website that would also include online purchasing and shipping orders. We're (Kelly and Mark) hoping to have that up in the next few weeks. Also, we're trying to get another set of shirts made by the end of the summer. All in all, things are just chugging along. Climb aboard!

Le Be Be Que

This Sunday we had our Launch Party and 1st Annual BBQ. It turned out to be a huge success. We had about 40 people show up and show support for our new little business venture. A great mix of close friends (both our peers and older) came out to eat some food, share some laughs and hear some good music. Let me give those who couldn't be there a little taste of the night:
The best ride goes to the homie Ben. He rolled from downtown after work on this Huskies custom painted scooter. Purple and gold rarely looks this good.

My old man took care of the bbq. He was constantly ready at the grill, armed with a spatula and plenty of Costco frozen patties. Shout out to my mom on all the other food too. If anyone needs any potato salad, we got you.

Here's some of the other dudes who came through. Sorry if you were there and don't get a shout out, Stew must have missed you with the camera...

Possibly the winner for the biggest fan of The INC!, Caskey came through and had to get a shot with the crew.

Brian came through to get really close to the camera.

D-Block and The Big took the crown for most cherries eaten. They were in the neighborhood and decided to stop by and kick it for a bit.

Laura came but was not enthused about the camera...

They don't call him The Big for nothing.

There's Hayden, Jed and Ben chillin out on the bench. Ben was mid-diss, making some sort of comment to Sam.

So everyone here had the pleasure of having our buddy Sam Wegman play some music for us all. He is really talented and I have actually mentioned him previously on the blog. Needless to say, he killed it.





So, from us to you, thanks for everything.

It was a blast.

Headquarters

With all the money coming in, you'd probably figure we had a big, fancy spot for out headquarters. Unfortunately, it's still just my living room. But it works and today we just got our business license finalized, so really it's one. The top is the only place to go now...






But don't actually count the money in the picture...

Remember?

Trip To Harajuku

I was recently in Tokyo for a couple days and took a break from seeing temples and palaces to get over to Harajuku for a visit. Japan is ahead of the curve on almost everything, fashion included. Harajuku is a little area that is famous for crazy Japanese girl clothing but there is a couple blocks that had some great street fashion. I stopped by some of the stores doing a mixture of recon and daydreaming for when The INC! opens a store next door. Here were some of the places I stopped:

Stussy...

was closed.

X-Large...

was really cool. By far the coolest shop I went to. There were two floors, a small section of shoes and a ton of X-Large clothing. They seem like a good mixture of Japanese and US clothing, mixing the crazy Japanese colors and patterns with the States' simple, logo based designs. Also, one of my favorite artists, graffiti writer Slick, one of the creators of Dissizit, had done pieces around the store which were really sweet. There is a "Making Of" video down below.



Bape...

was not everything I expected it to be. I guess that's probably just because it's like the Meccah of Japanese clothing and so when the building wasn't glowing I thought something was up. But it was a really great store. All of the details are super tight and everything is designed in some way to enhance the store. It was obvious that it was not just a building that Bape's clothing was in, it was Bape's building. The clothes were great, but that is no surprise.

Supreme...


was dope. Everything is very basic, but well done. Legit hats, button-ups and sweatshirts. Supreme always keeps it very simple but super cool. In the midst of crazy Japan, Supreme keeps its original style in tact. Good for them.

There were a lot of unique little boutiques too. They mostly sold a mixture of the couple stores I just spoke about. It was one of the dopest areas I've ever been to. Get over there if you're ever in Tokyo.

Grand Total of Purchases = $0.00. Everything is too damn expensive.

Inspirations - Logos