essica Hische is an amazing typographer and illustrator, and Daily Drop Cap is her ongoing project making blogs more beautiful. She posts gorgeous drop caps daily, free for use, in willing blogs. Look for her work on MODATI’s site and, check out some samples below.

Lunchbox Shirt in purple, natural and silver

The Lunchbox shirt is a three part story told in fabric. Indoors the girl appears without any colors around her, outdoors (as shown) the sun and sky appear) and at night the monsters come out. But currently I’m having a rough time. Which colors should I use? Currently I think I’ll be hitting up the light purple and the silvers.

If you get this message in time internet, your voice will be heard!

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Our long time friend and secret crush, Leyland DeVito designed this amazing concert poster for the Von Bondies and came to us to make his beautiful illustration into tangible reality.We were both really pleased with the results. Continue reading for the digital and printed versions.

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There’s a party Sunday and everyone’s invited, we’ll be there on site making custom designs for custom people. Bring in old cloths and we’ll give them a makeover, here’s what our friends have to say about it:

Partake in the creative expression of art and music and celebrate the birth of three yellow barn organizers: Jon, Robin, Mary and friend Leah. The aim of this event is to bring people in the community together to produce and share in art and music, work together and celebrate. We will have little stations for painting on dumpstered wood, light graffiti, random array of unique instruments, paper crane wish-making, as well as a potluck, games, and dancing.
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Join MODATI Sept. 18-20 at the the DIY Street Fair at lovely Fendale, MI for live screen printing.

We’ll be live printing on the spot so you can get a custom printed shirt on the spot! Bring clothes from home and we’ll rejuvenate them with ancient Chinese medicine, screen printing! We’ll have shirts on site too so don’t worry about lugging your closet around if you don’t want to.

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Love to hand draw? And we don’t mean Wacome tablets and clean hands , but first grade Ticonderoga pencils drawing.
We do! We hope you do too, so we’re going to show you how to convert a lovely pencil drawing into a beautiful screen print!

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One of my favorite things about doing the SOWA event is meeting fellow makers and shakers. Every week we see some awesome people, like JAM from Zamforia Industries and Alicia and Tony from Chromalab!

So although we wont be doing any more SOWA events I will certainly be missing those kind folks. You should certainly check them out if you’re in the Boston Area, Chromalab makes picking beautiful colors seem simple, but just walking by their booth gives you a jolt of pleasant feeling. Kind of like a room with a nice smell, the colors leap off their furniture and imbue the air with a hum and joyous glow.

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Check out their booth if you see them at SOWA and tell them Modati loves them! You can also check them out online, they do great custom work! : Chromalab.

That’s all for now, I’m busy touring NYC resistor here in NY and I’ll be back in Ann Arbor soon!

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Bilal Ghalib — Modati Clothing

Hey friendlies! This is going to be Modati’s last stop at Bostons South End Open Market. It’ll be fun to see you all one last time! While you’re out here make sure to also check out our dear friend Moth, she’s awesome!

Join MODATI for a live screen printing party as we host our third annual screen printing workshop at the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair July 15-17 from 1-3pm & 6-8pm and July 18 from 2-6pm.

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This tutorial will show you how to make a simple flying saucer in Abode Illustrator in a few easy steps. I use Illustrator verison CS3, but any verision should do. Here’s a preview of the finished result:

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