There are some new designs in our online portfolio. Some of our biggest and best clients, such as The Orange Peel and the Brewgrass Festival, are included. Check it out.

Speaking of the Brewgrass Festival, we were checking out their swanky new website, when we noticed that this year’s musical lineup had been announced, and one of our other clients was on the list! Congratulations to Dehlia Low, a very fine local band, on all of your current success, including this. We hope that you sell many of your lovely new t-shirts at the festival.

And if you’re interested in buying some Brewgrass merchandise, their online store is now open. Pint glasses and t-shirts are available, and you can also pre-order this year’s full color Brewgrass Festival shirt. We can’t show you what the design looks like, though. You’ll just have to wait.

This month’s issue of Verve magazine features one of our longtime customers, Brenda Ramer. Brenda is the director of Team ECCO, a Hendersonville-based nonprofit that specializes in marine education. You can find Verve magazine all over Western North Carolina, or you can read the article here.

The Blue Jean Ball is an annual fundraising event for Manna Food Bank. According to manna’s website, the event raised $177,000 for the food bank last year. Here’s hoping that this year’s event is even more successful.

And now, here is a picture of the gigantic banner we donated for the event.

Spring has officially sprung at Image 420. The presses are humming, and many of our regular clients have returned, to get fresh new shirts for their businesses and causes. Here’s a quick sampling of our exceptional client base.

The Lake Eden Arts Festival is happening this weekend in Black Mountain. The LEAF Festival is truly a top notch music and art festival. Their lineup always contains some of the best musical artists that the World Music scene has to offer. Tickets for the spring event sold out fast, as usual. If you’re one of the lucky ones that has a ticket, be sure to grab a shirt while you’re there.

Another Asheville staple with a fine new set of t-shirts is Beauty Parade. The West Asheville salon has been chosen by the readers of the Mountain Xpress as the top salon in Asheville for the last four years. And with good reason. They’re awesome.

We’re also very proud to print for SOAR, a high adventure summer camp for children with learning disabilities and AD/HD. From their website:

…the SOAR model is based on two fundamental principles. First, youth with LD and AD/HD flourish when they are encouraged to focus on their strengths in an experiential setting. The second principle acknowledges that success can be generalized by encouraging our students to develop and utilize strategies, enabling them to compensate for those challenging characteristics of LD and AD/HD. To this end, SOAR staff strive to ensure success for each student across a wide range of experiences. Such success, in turn, builds essential self-esteem and self-confidence.

Plus, in all of the pictures we’ve seen, the kids look like they’re having the time of their lives.

Thanks to all you.

The Image 420 Art Department would like to cordially invite you to join us for two rock and roll spectacles. Tonight, catch Brent and his band, Albatross Party, at Stella’s (the basement of Stella Blue, 31 Patton Ave., AVL). Then, on Saturday night, Jeremy and his band, Cobra Horse, take on Broadway’s (113 Broadway, AVL).

Will feature local favorite dance bands Bayou Diesel and Blue Heaven.  The concert will be a music and dance party for EVERYONE to celebrate our clean and green future in support of The concert, which will raise funds for earth-friendly projects, is scheduled for April 22 from 7:00-11:00 p.m. at The Orange Peel. Tickets are available at The Orange Peel website and at the door. The event is being organized by Asheville GreenWorks, a Keep America Beautiful affiliate. Image 420 is proud to help sponsor this event.

Congrats to our friends in the Asheville Youth Rowing Association (nice logo, by the way), for a great finish at their latest meet. From the Asheville Citizen-Times website:

Members of the Asheville Youth Rowing Club placed fourth at the John Hunter Regatta in Gainesville, Ga., last Saturday. Overall they finished fourth out of 11 teams, some of which had teams of up to 200 youths.

The Men’s Novice 8 (eight rowers in the boat) won a gold medal and the Women’s Novice 4 won silver. The Women’s Varsity 4 won a Silver medal and the Men’s Varsity 4 won a Bronze Medal. The club, which trains on Lake Julian in Skyland, has about 50 members and is coached by Jack Gartner and Alexis Rosenfelt.

Here’s a design we are currently working on for one of our friends from Ford Barn.

This is the front of our shop as seen by the great Zen…he is awesome.