Jared Ingold <p>Vardagen is a clothing company in Fishers, IN (the north-east side of Indianapolis) that specializes in design and hand-printed apparel. The company is passionate about helping others, working with local artists, and providing quality products. The name Vardagen is the Swedish word for &#8220;weekday&#8221;.</p> <p>Vardagen was started in June 2007 by three guys who love design, screenprinting, music, and t-shirts. Their original intent was to start a shirt company as well as provide screenprinting for other small shirt companies and provide free shirts for the poor. Although they printed some of their own designs right away, they started receiving a lot of screen printing requests from businesses, bands, churches, etc. As the sole custom screenprinting shop in the Fishers, IN area, Vardagen lost focus of its original purpose.</p> <p>In September of 2008, they restructured the business and split Vardagen into two entities: Vardagen, and The Art Press. The Art Press is a screen printing company that provides custom printing services for anyone. Vardagen is now a brand that is made up of designs from the Vardagen guys and other designers they know.</p> <p>Vardagen prints on the highest quality shirts and uses organic and eco-friendly materials and processes as often as possible.</p> <h2>Show some love</h2> <p>We care a lot about t-shirts and design, but we care more about people. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re going to give away t-shirts to as many people as we can. We know there are a lot of hand-me-downs that are given to people in poverty, but we think it everyone should have a brand new shirt every once in a while.</p> <p>We&#8217;re working on new ideas how to distribute t-shirts to benefit others. This means that you are making a difference with every purchase. If you know of a need please let us know about it. Email <a href="mailto:give@vardagen.com">give@vardagen.com</a></p> <h2>Working with Bands</h2> <p>Music has been a big part in the creation, design, and printing of our Vardagen products. Our friendships with local bands gave us the desire to add band merch to our online store. We found that a lot of small independent artists did not have t-shirts as a part of their merch, mainly because the initial investment is high, and there&#8217;s a risk of having a lot of profit-eating leftovers. It&#8217;s also difficult for them to know what sizes and quantities of shirts to order, since there&#8217;s no way of knowing who will come to the shows.</p> <p>We&#8217;ve come up with an amazing solution to this problem. We will design, print, and sell the shirts directly to their fans and give the artists a generous percentage of each sale (because we&#8217;re trying to support the local artists we&#8217;ll not be donating shirts for these sales). This way there&#8217;s no up front cost or overstock! The artists can also place small orders to sell at their shows.</p> <p>We&#8217;re really excited about adding the band merch to our store and hope that it will be a great service to bands and their fans!</p> 2008-10-23T00:28:04-04:00 about 547682 2008-10-23T00:28:03-04:00 213932 2009-10-30T16:03:14-04:00 Vardagen is a clothing company in Fishers, IN (the north-east side of Indianapolis) that specializes in design and hand-printed apparel. The company is passionate about helping others, working with local artists, and providing quality products. The name Vardagen is the Swedish word for "weekday". Vardagen was started in June 2007 by three guys who love design, screenprinting, music, and t-shirts. Their original intent was to start a shirt company as well as provide screenprinting for other small shirt companies and provide free shirts for the poor. Although they printed some of their own designs right away, they started receiving a lot of screen printing requests from businesses, bands, churches, etc. As the sole custom screenprinting shop in the Fishers, IN area, Vardagen lost focus of its original purpose. In September of 2008, they restructured the business and split Vardagen into two entities: Vardagen, and The Art Press. The Art Press is a screen printing company that provides custom printing services for anyone. Vardagen is now a brand that is made up of designs from the Vardagen guys and other designers they know. Vardagen prints on the highest quality shirts and uses organic and eco-friendly materials and processes as often as possible. <h2>Show some love</h2> We care a lot about t-shirts and design, but we care more about people. That's why we're going to give away t-shirts to as many people as we can. We know there are a lot of hand-me-downs that are given to people in poverty, but we think it everyone should have a brand new shirt every once in a while. We're working on new ideas how to distribute t-shirts to benefit others. This means that you are making a difference with every purchase. If you know of a need please let us know about it. Email "give@vardagen.com":mailto:give@vardagen.com <h2>Working with Bands</h2> Music has been a big part in the creation, design, and printing of our Vardagen products. Our friendships with local bands gave us the desire to add band merch to our online store. We found that a lot of small independent artists did not have t-shirts as a part of their merch, mainly because the initial investment is high, and there's a risk of having a lot of profit-eating leftovers. It's also difficult for them to know what sizes and quantities of shirts to order, since there's no way of knowing who will come to the shows. We've come up with an amazing solution to this problem. We will design, print, and sell the shirts directly to their fans and give the artists a generous percentage of each sale (because we're trying to support the local artists we'll not be donating shirts for these sales). This way there's no up front cost or overstock! The artists can also place small orders to sell at their shows. We're really excited about adding the band merch to our store and hope that it will be a great service to bands and their fans!