Made in the 216

Sooooo....We know that Made in the 216 was a few weeks ago, but we feel we can still talk about it and give a recap....right?

Anyway it was an awesome event, we got to see a preview of it twice, to help set up(things were different each time...Danielle's Funny like that) and it looked awesome both times and also Friday Night, the Night we attended.

The event started at 4pm and we showed up around 7:30...and our new Tee The CLE Collage was sold out...and while we were there two others sold out! It was even cool to see 2 dudes sporting the "C.L.E. - Create,Love, Embrace" V-necks they just purchased, I guess they just needed to put it on!!

Needless to say we had a great showing and would like to thank all the Clevelander's who supported us as well as all the other local artists. I bought a tote from Small Screens and Jeff bought some jewelry.

Here are some shots of our Tees from the event, compliments of Kyle Roth and Room Service.


Our Table at The Room Service Location


A Lady checking out our Hang Tags....pictured below.

Made in the 216, originally uploaded by kyleroth.

The Next Day we went to the Waterloo Arts Fest, where we were visited by many of 216ers from the previous night. We had some fun and good conversations with them


We will be at Wade Oval Wednesdays 6 times throughout the summer in University Circle and will be launching 3 new tees a month .... come out listen to some music and enjoy the Summer weather

"CREATE"...a Sneak Peak

Throughout the first year of CLE we've enjoyed many successes and highlights. We had a huge weekend at the Bazaar Bizarre in December, which sparked our expansion and growth as a Brand. We were privileged to be interviewed by Cleveland Magazine, which sparked more growth, and we even got a shot-out from Leon Bibb and the Channel 5 News Team, which was both awesome and surreal.

We realize that our designs have been simple.....yet very unique and have caught the eye of many Clevelanders who are looking for something unique.. We have plans to expand our line to be more expressive, kitchy, and add some of our designer/artistic
flair (if you will). Basically we want to be more than "I (something) CLE" and over the next couple of months we will be releasing new designs each month that represent our little vintage/unique style that we hope our little niche market will enjoy.

We pride ourselves on using high quality American Made goods paired with our "unique" designs that are printed right here in North East Ohio.

Here's a look at This month's 3 designs that will premier at Room Service's Made in the 216 on Friday June 26 and at The Waterloo Fest on the 27th.

A Collage of Everything Cleveland....at least everything we could fit....


A little play on the acronym "CLE"....Create, Love, Embrace....Art, Music, Culture. A donation will be made from each purchase of this design to an artistic cause in the Cleveland area.

Also available in a V-Neck


A more expressive approach to our "216" Design

Also Available in a V-Neck


Also we have re-printed some current designs in New Colors!!





Come out this weekend and check out the events below!!

Team CLE

Mark Your Calanders!!!

We have a BUSY weekend in the end of June Coming UP! We were "INVITED!!" to be involved in two local Art and Music Events...Right here in Cleveland! Come out and see a ton of Cleveland Artists, Designers, and Bands at Room Service's "Made in the 216" June 26 & 27. We will have a selection of our current tees in the show as well as a few new ones.


We were also "INVITED!!" to The Waterloo Arts Fest on Saturday, June 27 as well!!! We will have our full line as well as some new ones....



We will also be involved in 6 other Art and Music Festivals (so far) in Cleveland Starting July 1st...stay tuned for more info.

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Thank you, C.L.E. Clothing Co.

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Oddmall Recap

Saturday, we spent the day in Hudson at Oddmall, "Emporium of the Weird", which was our second indie-craftshow we've been to. It was a good time, we met some new friends, hung out with some old ones. It was nice to sit across from Small Screen Designs again, which we sat next to at Bazaar Bizzare , and she also has her collection at Room Service with us....so we had a little Room Service Corner goin' on there. Check out the shirts we got from her....

Click on the images to go to her etsy shop.

Other highlights were seeing our tee's being sported by other vendors!!

Jhenn, of Chocoagogo, was wearing a vintage "Oh My Heart" she got last year at Baz Biz. We went over and got some chocolates for our moms to support her booth . She even had little Ohio Chocolates with a Heart in the spot of Cleveland, which we also purchased! Click on the image below to check our what she hhas to offer...

B. Radley across the aisle from us, who was also sporting our "Heart of it All" design....very nice! check out her cute jewelry by clicking the image below...

Other cool stuff we purchased ....

Great Lakes Beach Glass Hair Pins (for my girlfriend)

A hand carved rice bowl

and this awesome hand drawn G.I. Joe T-shirt from Psycho Reindeer...

click image to visit site.

All in all it was a great day! We'd like to thank all the Vendors who supported us, all that came out...it was good fun a little confusion here and there, but still fun....oh yeah....here's a look at Jeff and Laura in our Booth....a big thanks to CSP Graphics for printing our signs on such short notice...they looked awesome.





The rest of the night was fun as well, Cavs game at Jeff's house, (1st half), Laura's Apt (3rd Qtr) and Drew's House (4th Qtr) Good Game good times!....then it was on to the Garage Bar to meet up with our good friend Matt who just flew back from Germany after a 40 day Business trip and we finished up with a dance party at the Matinee...where there was a Terry Urban Look-a-like DJ and Jonah from "The Other Girls"...we danced the night away....

WIT_MVP__NESS GAME ONE - SEMI'S

I got an awesome surprise yesterday....Tickets to Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals (exclamation point, exclamation point). Thanks to my wonderful GF. Even though I had a terrible head cold and cough, I wanted to go anyway to experience Cleveland's first ever NBA MVP Award Ceremony.



The "Q" was packed and very loud....I got some goosebumps I hadn't had since, well the playoffs back in the day of the Coliseum, where my friend Jason and I would stand the whole game until some old man told Jason to sit down (what was that guy doing? It's the Playoffs!)

I was cool to see Lebron get his trophy before the game, it was so loud we couldn't hear David Stern's speech. Check out the swag we got at the game...



Can't wait for Game 2 and another domination.

MK

PS We saw three CLE shirts wandering around before the game

Cleveland's A Plum!

Friday Night We met up with a very cool chickita at The Tree House for Happay Hour. She's actually very good friends with my GF, and it was very cool to meet up and finally hang out (exclamation point, exclamation point) She writes a very cool blog Cleveland's A Plum, you can check it out by clicking the image below.

After Happy Hour and Dinner at Prosperity (had the Fish Fry, I'm so Polish) we did a tour of the West Side punk bar scene, The Spitfire, Now That's Class, and the Matinee, where I picked up a 7oz Midget Miller High Life....it was weird.
Big Week this week, getting ready for a indie craft show, Cavs Playoff Games, and more to come later....

MK Team CLE

Now Available at Room Service

We have recently partnered with Room Service a unique boutique on Detroit Rd. in the Gordon Square District. We have a selection of our online collection plus 3 Tees that are exclusive to Room Service. Guys and Girls sizes are both available there. Thanks to Danielle at Room Service for the opportunity and we hope it drives some great foot traffic to this cool local business. GO VISIT ROOM SERVICE!!!! CLICK ON THE LOGO FOR DIRECTIONS!

In Case You Missed It....

http://cleclothingco.com/

WOW! THANKS CLE!!!

Wow Thanks CLE! What an AWESOME Response to our New Updated Collection. We Sent out over 40 orders from over the weekend! Thanks to everyone who have said so many nice things about us as well as supporting us. Thanks Cleveland Magazine for featuring us. Thanks to Coolcleveland.com for supporting us when we started out. Thanks for helping our cause of Spreading Cleveland Pride One T-Shirt at a Time!

P.S. We're keeping Count....the 1,000th shirt we sell will have a secret suprise.

We're Featured in Cleveland Magazine!!!

Check out our article in Cleveland Magazine.

A Little Look Into the World of A Graphic/Web Designer...

Auto Tuning from Casey D on Vimeo.

25 Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore Graphic/Web Designer

(In no particular order)

1. You’ve almost rear-ended the car in front of you because you were analyzing a font on a billboard.

2. You get pissed when a free Photoshop brush you download is less than 1000px in size.

3. You’d rather study the paisley pattern on your boyfriend/girlfriend’s shirt than listen to what he/she has to say.

4. You can use keyboard shortcuts at light speed, blindfolded, but you can’t type a paragraph of text without staring at the keyboard.

5. You’ve had “Software Nightmares,” when you’ve been working way too much.

6. You consider meals interruptions.

7. You’ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word “final” in any file name when saving.

8. You clean your keyboard more often than you wash your car.

9. You’ve intentionally given up trying to explain your projects to non-designers.

10. You see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.

11. You’d rather organize your desktop than your sock drawer.

12. When you heard that Adobe was acquiring Macromedia, you had a Design Orgasm.

13. When you look at Album art all you see are grunge Photoshop Brushes. (Then you see the album art a couple minutes later)

14. You’ve Photoshopped out a watermark for a comp or mock-up.

15. You’ve actually $paid for a font.

16. You’ve totally slaughtered a great design concept because the client thinks he/she knows best. (everyone thinks they are a designer)

17. The amount of words you’ve written with a sharpie labeling burned discs total more than the amount of words you’ve read in novels.

18. You’ve had to explain to a client that a layered file wasn’t part of the deal.

19. You’ve kept a ragged concert ticket just so you could scan it.

20. You’ve nicknamed the OSX spinning wheel. (and not affectionately)

21. You bookmark a resource more often than you have a fun night out on the town.

22. You’ve intentionally overbid a project because you can sniff out a bad client from a mile away.

23. You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.

24. You have an amazingly huge font collection, and an amazingly short temper.

25. If you had a penny for every mouse click, you would have been a trillionaire 3 years ago.

C.L.E. Clothing Featured in Messy Magazine

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Lebron Takes on GQ

FIX 216

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Bloggers Chatting about CLE Clothing

We googled ourselves and found a few local bloggers talking about us....very cool stuff!!! check it out!
this one is good

http://thegldc.com/blog/2008/12/13/bizarre-bazaar-the-rockin-indie-craft-show/

others:

http://www.daveandpatty.com/?p=177

http://slightlybitterincleveland.blogspot.com/2008/12/cle-clothing-co.html

cool stuff huh