Yes Press News

2009-12-01T14:56:00.000-08:00

A Little Taste of Oakland

Many friends of Yes Press in this neat little video.

2009-11-05T17:57:00.001-08:00

Alternative Tentacles - 30 Years!

Our friends at Alternative Tentacles are kicking off their weekend-long 30th anniversary celebration tonight at the Great American Music Hall in SF. 30 years of punk rock in the Bay Area! No small feat...

We've been busy all week printing up these special edition 30th anniversary AT shirts, and are super psyched on how they came out. Here's to another 30...

2009-09-09T16:43:00.001-07:00

Cass McCombs

I recently had the opportunity to print some really nice t-shirts for one of my favorite musicians around, Cass McCombs.
A proud moment for Yes Press!

Cass and his band are on tour right now in support of their new album Catacombs. They play the Great American Music Hall in SF tonight.

Check out the shirt:

2009-08-13T17:15:00.000-07:00

Famous Classtravaganza

This summer we have had fun printing lots of cool stuff for our brooklyn buds Famous Class. A couple album covers, a lottta posters, and a tank top with a giant purple cat on it.

Tomorrow night is looking to be epic, with the entire FC roster performing at Death By Audio in Brooklyn.
New Yorkers: be there. Have fun dudes!

2009-06-15T15:51:00.001-07:00

WINDSURF Japan tour T-shirts!

Last week I had the pleasure of printing a major double whammy meeting of the minds: the first ever Windsurf t-shirts, designed by Mr. Nat Russell. The raddest t-shirts in the world? Quite possibly yes.

We did a super small run for Windsurf's tour of Japan(happening right now), but rumor has it that there will be more made available after they make their return to the states. Windsurf make their U.S. debut on July 9th at the Rickshaw stop in SF.

Tune in to the weird energy:

2009-06-03T14:31:00.000-07:00

National Fist Bump Day

Today is the first annual National Fist Bump Day.
We printed the official t-shirts for this historic day, including one designed by our buddy Dave Singley. Get bumpin.

2009-05-19T13:48:00.000-07:00

PLUSH CABINETS

I recently ran into my friend Zach, who is the man behind Plush Cabinets, and was reminded of a cool project that we collaborated on a while back. Zach had us screen print these large panels of wood with water based ink, which he then constructed into this custom dresser. It was cool to see how this thing came together.

The finished product.

2009-05-03T11:12:00.001-07:00

TANYA MORGAN

A while back we had the pleasure of printing some shirts for hip-hop up and comers Tanya Morgan. Well their new album Brooklynati is coming out next week and what we've heard sounds really nice. These guys really seem to be doing things the right way.

DOWNLOAD: So Damn Down dj mix. (right click to save mp3)

2009-04-24T11:32:00.001-07:00

We love being able to do work for rad bands!

George from Chen Santa Maria, and Nedelle and Chris from Cryptacize display their new duds.

Chen Santa Maria kick off a west coast tour tomorrow night in Portland.

Cryptacize are playing an album release show tonight at the Cafe DuNord in SF alongside The Finches and The Papercuts, before heading on a big europe/usa summer tour next month.

Besides the fact that the music is great, another reason to definitely pick up Cryptacize's new record is the cover art by our friend Nat Russell, who you may recall we made a t-shirt with a while back.

2009-04-22T18:41:00.000-07:00

Happy Earth Day from Yes Press!

This year, in celebration, we've done what we do best and made a t-shirt.

100% of the profits generated from the sale of this t-shirt will be donated to the Union of Concerned Scientists

From the UCS website:
"Established in 1969, we seek to ensure that all people have clean air, energy, and transportation, as well as food that is produced in a safe and sustainable manner. We strive for a future that is free from the threats of global warming and nuclear war, and a planet that supports a rich diversity of life. Sound science guides our efforts to secure changes in government policy, corporate practices, and consumer choices that will protect and improve the health of our environment globally, nationally, and in communities throughout the United States. In short, UCS seeks a great change in humanity’s stewardship of the earth.”

This group is fighting the good fight for the earth and it's citizens and we are happy to do something to support them.

For those of you wondering what this design is about, it dually references a motif popularized by the Dutch graphic design group Experimental Jetset and the lyrics to the classic summertime jam "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" by Jazz / R+B legend Roy Ayers. More importantly, it references a few of the things that make our natural world beautiful: Bees & Things & Flowers.

This shirt is available for purchase online now: store.yespress.info

We are taking orders for the shirt ONLY until May 1st.
All orders for this shirt will be shipped the week of May 4th.
This shirt is printed on American Apparel 100% ORGANIC cotton t-shirts, and is available in both men's and women's sizes.
We hope you'll help us support this worthy cause!

2009-04-15T12:56:00.000-07:00

SHIRT OF THE WEEK

get balearic in 09

2009-03-18T11:10:00.000-07:00

MINE at SxSw

We recently printed some promotional t-shirts for a documentary film called MINE. MINE tells the story of animals and their owners in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. A possibly overlooked, but very important story to tell! MINE is premiering at South by Southwest.

Also appearing at SxSw are our friends The Rock n Roll Adventure Kids and a million other bands.

2009-03-13T17:24:00.001-07:00

HOTTUB!!!

We recently had the chance to print some sweet shirts for our new buds and fellow 94608ers HOTTUB. They're on a u.s. tour right now with the Ting Tings. Check the dates.

2009-02-13T13:46:00.000-08:00

SHIRT OF THE WEEK

Instant classic. Matthew Thurber for Altamont.

2009-02-09T16:06:00.001-08:00

OUR RAD CLIENTS!

We added a client list to the website. Check it out using the drop down menu above.

2009-02-06T12:26:00.000-08:00

Paper, Plastic, or Canvas?

"Amidst all the despair in the last few years about the slow extinction of various design-friendly formats — the vinyl LP, the newspaper, the book, etc. — one vehicle for graphic design has vaulted to almost instant ubiquity: the canvas tote."

Dmitri Siegel reflects on the canvas tote bag in a nice essay on Design Observer. Article here.

2009-02-05T16:45:00.000-08:00

OBAMA! AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL! YES PRESS!

We recently had the pleasure of working with the fine people at Amnesty International SF. Together we produced a commemorative scarf for inauguration day, which AI gave out as a thank you to new members who signed up at the SF civic center celebration. It is so nice to be able to use the power of print to support a positive cause!

2009-01-21T17:09:00.000-08:00

SHIRT OF THE WEEK

Yes we can! We just did! By Mishka.

2009-01-20T13:36:00.001-08:00

BIG DAY
Congratulations America

2008-12-29T11:04:00.000-08:00

Happy Holidays from your friends at Yes Press Screen Printing

2008-12-04T17:21:00.000-08:00

SHIRT OF THE WEEK

2008-11-13T17:35:00.000-08:00

BOOOGIE BOARDERR

Here's the news. Our friends in the band boogie boarder are on tour right and we hooked them up with a new shirt. The shirt portrays a bro down session between a jovial man of goo, a suspicious slice of pepperoni pizza, and an alternate reality drippy mouse. And the words "boogie boarder" are hidden in the crust. What more do you want?

East coasters catch these guys on tour or if you want you can buy the shirt online right here: famousclass.com

2008-10-23T11:15:00.000-07:00

BUDGET ROCK 7

We're sponsoring BUDGET ROCK 7, which is starting tonight and going all the way through the weekend at the Stork Club in Oakland! We'll be there selling shirts and hangin. Come on out and get down. For full line-up details clicky here.

2008-10-09T11:55:00.000-07:00

NEW GIRL TALK SHIRTS!

We recently had the opportunity to print some shirts for a super exciting musician, Mr. Gregg Gillis aka Girl Talk. Rad musician, rad design, rad shirt. It's nice when all the pieces add up. These shirts are going to be available at all stops of Girl Talk's upcoming U.S. tour, which starts tonight in Philadelphia.

Girl Talk - "Set It Off"

2008-09-04T11:46:00.001-07:00

WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP IT'S THE SHIRT OF THE WEEK

Bone Thugs n Typography
Kevin Lyons for HVW8

2008-08-07T16:09:00.000-07:00

LIFE'S A BEACH
I'm djing tonight at the conga lounge! See you there?

2008-08-07T13:01:00.000-07:00

IMMERSION COMPOSITION SOCIETY IN THE EAST BAY EXPRESS

New clients of ours, the Immersion Composition Society, are featured in the current issue of the East Bay Express. Check it out.

2008-08-04T15:03:00.000-07:00

CLUB SANDWICH 2 YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHIRTS!

Club Sandwich is a rad organization that puts on all ages shows around the bay area. Last week they celebrated their 2 year anniversary by putting on a show at Lobot gallery with KIT, Abe Vigoda, Mika Miko, and No Age. We printed up some shirts to mark the occasion! The shirts feature artwork by Shawn Reed and are available in super limited quantities at Club Sandwich shows or in their online store. Get a shirt and support this great organization!

Dean Spunt of No Age performing at Lobot in a one of a kind Club Sandwich shirt. Photo stolen from midsummersault's flickr.

2008-07-28T11:56:00.001-07:00

FOIL STYLEZ

We are now offering metallic foil printing! And we got things started right with these hallucination inducing foil/tie-dye shirts for Oakland's Wallpaper.

Wallpaper - T-rex:

2008-07-15T13:18:00.000-07:00

SHIRT OF THE WEEK

We've a winner.

2008-07-01T18:07:00.000-07:00

SUMMER VACATION HOURS

Please note:

WE WILL BE CLOSED ON JULY 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in observance of Independence Day.

We will be open ONLY from 12-5 pm for the week of July 7th - 11th, and resume our normal business hours the week of July 14th. The shop is still going to be running during these more limited hours, so feel free to get your orders in!

THANKS!

2008-06-18T13:47:00.000-07:00

ICE SCRAPER?

From Mousepads to Piggy Banks
By Steven Heller
(NY Times; May 4, 2008)

This primary season campaign souvenirs are cropping up like kudzu. Retail stores on each of the candidates’ official Web sites offer copious merchandise from lapel pins and mousepads to hoodies and onesies alongside the requisite buttons and bumper stickers. Given the ease with which a logo or slogan can be stamped on any product, the sheer quantity of retail campaign stuff is possibly greater than at any other time in history, albeit a lot less campy than during other elections.

What a particular campaign chooses to sell may not reveal anything momentous about a candidate who has little to say about the inventory (unless, of course, they have relatives in the novelty or dry goods businesses), but the products do say something about how strategists use consumer culture to propagate the candidates’ images (and get free advertising).

So I asked four design critics to examine the quality of the candidates’ online stores, and to go a little below the surface to extract some deeper meaning from the merchandise being sold.

John McCain comes out ahead in the retail offerings with the broadest inventory (from wall clocks to water bottles), notes Julie Lasky, editor of ID magazine. Hillary Clinton comes in a close second (including coffee mugs and plastic piggy banks) and Barack Obama a more focused third.

But the difference is not just quantity. “McCain is the only candidate to offer leisure-class items like polo shirts (including stylishly hued pink ones for men) and sailing jackets before getting down to the nitty-gritty of hoodies,” Ms. Lasky reports. “Clinton and Obama are all about working-class apparel: T-shirts, hoodies and fleece jackets.”

Karrie Jacobs, a contributing editor to Metropolis, concurs that Senator Obama’s merchandise reflects the grassroots insurgent culture of his campaign. She notes that Senator Clinton’s paraphernalia is “conspicuously ugly,” and questions the taste of whoever is in charge of her campaign’s merchandise.

“Where the real editorial opportunity lies,” adds Allan Chochinov, co-founder of Core77.com, an industrial design website and blog, “is in the accessories section, and though the easy targets are Clinton’s ironic ‘ruler’ ($3.50; volume pricing available) and McCain’s more oblique ‘ice scraper’ ($10.00), it’s Obama’s ‘hope bracelet’ that is sure to move the merchandise — 4 bucks each and available in both black and white.”

In a race where the issue of race and ethnicity has reared its predictable head, it is also interesting to see that Senators McCain and Obama especially reach out to their Irish constituencies and their female supporters. Senator Clinton sells her “Hillary for Women” paraphernalia lumped in with narrowly focused buttons for Asian-American and Pacific Islanders, African-Americans, gays, educators, nurses, Jews and veterans — but no mention of the Irish.

Julie Lasky also observes that Senators Clinton and Obama both freely borrow the “Got Milk?” slogan (Obama: “Got Hope?”; Hillary: “Got Experience?”), which is less indicative of their unoriginality than of the ubiquity of the milk campaign.

Alissa Walker, a design blogger, says John McCain’s merchandise works well because it clearly projects the image of a “super-serious” candidate “in shades of black, navy blue and gold.” She points out that his nautical lapel pins and polo shirts emphasize his military experience.

But Ms. Walker was most impressed by his ownership of the four words: leadership, experience, integrity and honor, which emblazon everything from shirts to signs. “Who wouldn’t be proud to borrow a bit from his legacy and stick this leadership sign on their front lawn? Without wearing the standard McCain shirt, you can wear his values with the message of your choice. I really like this option, and the words that he picked. The only bummer here is the women for McCain stuff — truly stereotypical in a sickening shade of Pepto-Bismol pink.”

Senator Obama’s site is the only one to post a disclaimer that some items are back-ordered; whether true or not, it is a brilliant retail tactic.

“But with all the press Obama’s getting for the design of his campaign,” says Alissa Walker, “I was pretty disappointed by his products. There’s really not much that differentiates Obama’s merchandise from Hillary’s: it’s all the same color of blue.”

However, Senator Obama has a unique multimedia section, including a DVD of his speeches. “The Obama-as-cultural-icon angle is absolutely achieved by selling documentary-style videos of him; he’s crossed the line into entertainment,” says Ms. Walker.

She wonders how effective the merchandise on Clinton’s site is since it is “overwhelmingly girly. All the t-shirts look like they’re designed for women or being worn by women. The lapel pins are really matronly, from the Hillary bling pin to her signature pin by Ann Hand, a jewelry artist.” But Ms. Walker loves the “I’m your girl” button with its casual portrait and Senator Clinton’s handwriting. “They should make this image into posters because it gives her campaign a much-needed boost of that evasive personality.”

Julie Lasky observes that in all this, Senator McCain may lose the vote of bargain seekers: at $25, his T-shirts are $4.92 more expensive than similar versions on the Clinton and Obama Web sites.

2008-06-05T14:11:00.000-07:00

SHIRT OF THE WEEK

Beavis and Butthead as Metallica = Gold.

2008-06-01T11:01:00.000-07:00

ISSUES IS TURNING ONE!

Q: Where in Oakland can you pick up the sunday times, the new thrasher, a joy division t-shirt, an obscure noise record, and a "surf naked" button all in one stop?
A: ISSUES!!!!!

Oakland's RADDEST newsstand ISSUES is celebrating their one year anniversary today and we printed up some shirts for them to mark the occasion! These shirts are hot and we are psyched to be doing work for such great people. Congrats to Joe and Noella!

2008-05-29T15:51:00.001-07:00

COLDBLOOD / HAMBURGER EYES

Look for our ad in the new issue of the most epic photo magazine ever, Hamburger Eyes.

Also keep your eyes peeled for the brand new, ultra fresh, limited run COLDBLOOD shirt that we recently printed for the Burger camp. We printed this shirt with super soft water based ink and American Apparel shirts. Get the shirt and the mag at the burgerworld online store The Wormholes.
Thanks to Ray for the trade!

2008-05-23T15:33:00.000-07:00

CLOSED MONDAY

We will be closed on Monday 5/26 in observance of Memorial day.

2008-05-13T17:57:00.000-07:00

SHIRT OF THE WEEK

Jesus Shaves by Skate Mental

2008-05-07T13:42:00.000-07:00

SUBTLE

Local experimentalists Subtle are kicking off a U.S. tour tonight at the Great American Music Hall in S.F. Check them out in your town and buy a t-shirt, printed with care at Yes Press!

2008-05-05T16:27:00.000-07:00

SHIRT OF THE WEEK

These guys made a t-shirt that makes it look like you're wearing a buffalo check lumberjack shirt buttoned at the top. I swear I had this same idea about a year ago, but I never would have done it so I'm glad that someone else did. The only difference is that in my version there would have been a suicidal tendencies logo peeking out.

2008-04-25T12:51:00.000-07:00

Aloha,

Just getting back in the swing of things after an amazing week in Hawaii with the family.

Here is a radical photo that just happens to have Yes Press in the background:
walker ryan with the fs bluntslide, photo by daughters

This spot already came and went but when it was going on I would see people skating it just about every day. In other randomness, I'm excited for this tonight:

2008-04-02T11:41:00.000-07:00

SHIRT OF THE WEEK

Semi genius product design right here.

2008-03-26T11:26:00.000-07:00

SHIRT OF THE WEEK

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Bartsenio Hall.

2008-03-25T15:04:00.000-07:00

T CRITIC

Big thanks to tcritic.com for the kind words.

2008-03-24T16:38:00.000-07:00

CLOSE TO THE EDGE

Did you know that Yes is going on tour this summer? Woah.

2008-03-20T08:38:00.000-07:00

CHUCK PALAHNIUK

We are very happy to now be printing t-shirts for one of the most exciting authors around these days (and possibly the only author for whom t-shirts feel appropriate), Mr. Chuck Palahniuk. Palahniuk's first novel, Fight Club, was adapted into the 1999 landmark film of the same name. The film adaptation for Palahniuk's fourth novel Choke is slated to be released in theaters on August 1st, 2008. The movie is already receiving rave reviews and recently won the Best Ensemble Cast jury award at Sundance film festival. If you've never read anything by Palahniuk, we highly recommend checking him out. If you're already a fan, check out www.chuckpalahniuk.net and maybe even get yourself a t-shirt. There is a ton of great content on this website.

2008-03-19T11:02:00.000-07:00

SHIRT OF THE WEEK

The bar has been raised.

2008-03-14T12:27:00.000-07:00

SNAKES SAY HISSS!

We recently designed and printed this t-shirt for New York popsters Snakes Say Hisss. These guys are part of the Famous Class family, with whom we plan on doing lots of collaboration in the near future. Check these dudes out and get your hisss on.

2008-03-12T10:43:00.000-07:00

SERIPOP/ZUM shirts!

I was super excited to have the opportunity to recently print something designed by the art/design/screenprinting wizards at Seripop! I have admired their artwork for a long time and it was an honor to print this shirt. The shirt was for our friend George Chen's record label ZUM. It was an especially cool design as it had a fluorescent orange print over the black layer, which made for some interesting results.

2008-03-11T14:15:00.000-07:00

Hello!
Welcome to the brand new Yes Press website.
We tried to make things look nice and function simply on the new site. We hope that you like it.

Along with the new site, we are also proud to announce the release of our first series of artist designed t-shirts! Please check them out using the drop down navigation above. You can buy these shirts from our also brand new online store, which is now open for business.

Thanks to everyone who has supported us over the last year!
We are looking forward to a great summer in 2008!

One other little announcement is that this news section is now powered by blogger and will be updated with much more frequency than before. Be sure to check back.

THANKS!