Summer Tour 2009...

Just got back from 3.5 weeks of showing the line all over London, NYC & San Francisco. Some well deserved R&R and me batteries are bloody charged. Rocked it with Q-Tip in NYC, wicked show. Hit Metric at the Electric Ballroom in London! Merder Tees is available for orders next week. Every single person I showed it to, wanted at least 1 of them right away in hand. I showed it to a shitload of people including retailers, wholesalers, fashion designers, footballers, lol and a ton of really drunk English blokes - dammit! Bottom line is we have a brand people want. I built several UK relations and the team is solid. We are touring the entire province introducing it to buyers up close with a forth coming gallery exhibit featured in selected hot spots this summer. BOSH.

Merder Partners Love Their Canucks!!!

This is way too weird to ignore. Today BOTH my partners are in the media supporting our Vancouver Canucks in Game 2 of the 2009 Playoffs?! How cool is that! Landon showed up in this mornings 24 Rag Mag with a wide mouth shot from Game 1 the other day, and Justin popped up on the Canucks homepage after entering a contest and winning tickets. Nuts. I gotta say it's pretty awesome. I guess I better pick up the slack and get published wearing nothing but a Canucks thong fast. Probably not. ;(

March Press for Merder Tees...

We've had a few new articles this month from Amber Turnau & our upcoming New Business profile from the guys at Vancity Buzz. Look for the actual article later this month. We're also giving away a limited shirt in a promo campaign with them. Thanks for the press guys, cheers for that. ;)

The Watchmen Watches Merder?!

I saw it last Wednesday (March 4th), full sneak peek at Colossus in Langley 2 full days before the public! (Thanks Tony Gold) It was INSANE!!! The best Superhero movie I have ever seen. All the filth, gore and drama I needed - opening credits were amazing. I could watch it over and over again. By the way, that top pic is a shot I made of, you guessed it - Dr. Manhattan himself, Joel Kinman. On another note - we are in full swing sample stage again - producing new stuff. Then, off to London with Diesel this month. Then back to do our SHOWOFF show April 17th at the Roundhouse in Yaletown. Then we were just invited to Toronto Fashion Week April 21st. Tickets for SHOWOFF are on sale now at DIPT on Hornby & Clubzone & Imogen.

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Our second ad to date officially. We did a small spot in the back of a Lester's Army issue last year, that was it - this one is found on the back page of our new newspaper catalog. Pretty eerie eh? What's going on in this classic uk illustration? Turn of the century I estimate, and that little boy bleeding in the corner, what's happening there? Smells like a murder mystery to me...

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A lot of thought went into this concept. I took my time and tried to make it fun to read and still promote the brand in a new way. The retro vibe is funny to me. Making it on newspaper will be cool. Can't wait to show it off. ;)

How to Plan a Merder...

Recently I've made some design tweaks with regards to the next 10 of the 35 shirts that are going to print. I met my best friend Diesel who owns Triluxe Fashion from Toronto while we were in Maui. He gave me some sound advice on how to sell this brand right and keep it going for a while. After some careful direction on what needed to be done, I've selected the next shirts, designed the new catalog, (large scale, & looks like a newspaper), worked on our marketing plans for this year & managed to do a few interviews (I'll post them as they are published). So - after a quick buying trip to nail the exact fabrics we're after, it's time to let the reps start selling shirts.