What is Sublimation Printing and What Can It Do for You?

All-Over Sublimation at Black Duck, of Black Duck!

You may have heard the term ‘sublimation’ going around lately. Some apparel decorators call it dye-sub, or dye sublimation printing, but no matter what you call it, sublimation printing is a versatile, digital printing method that opens up a world of opportunities to any consumer of decorated [...]

Dion’s Apron featured by Impressions Magazine

Impressions Magazine posted their latest gallery of inspirational decorated apparel today, and in this latest MULTIMEDIA and Digitizing Artistry gallery, Black Duck was prominently featured through our one-of-a-kind apron for local favorite, Dion’s Pizza!  Created from a design once used for company reward jackets, this beatiful, but work-sturdy apron features a detailed rendition [...]

Bring on the Glam – A Stitches Magazine Fashion Shoot featuring Black Duck

This lacy-backed dress made an excellent canvas for Erich's metalwork-inspired designs.

As we hinted in a previous post, the work of Black Duck’s embroidery digitizer, Erich Campbell, has been featured in Stitches Magazine’s latest fashion shoot, “Bring on the Glam” with his medieval, Anglo-Saxon inspired ethnic embroidery styling. Erich also posted about it on his [...]

Painting the Town (or Showroom) Red – Black Duck in Stitches Magazine

Doug and Dana in Stitches

The fine folks at Stitches Magazine have decided to feature us and a photo of our owners, Doug and Dana Bird before one of the walls in our famously crimson conference room in their latest issue. We were selected due to our bold use of color in the decoration of [...]

Black Duck’s Embroidery – Always in Fashion

What many of our loyal customers may not know is that Black Duck’s work has become a staple in industry magazines.  Now, when Fall’s brisk mornings turn our customer’s minds to getting a new warm jacket, (embroidered with their company’s logo, of course) , we’d like to give you one last look at summer with [...]

Home on the Range : Black Duck Success Stories

[By popular request, we're re-running edited versions of some of our "success stories" from an e-mail ad campaign that we did in recent years.  Here's the first of a few of these fun thumbnail sketches of our apparel solutions that just might help you see what Black Duck can do for you. -ed]

The Range [...]

From the Vault: Black Duck in the Movies (and the Weekly Alibi)

Black Duck co-Owner, Doug Bird, threading an Embroidery Machine

Though the article is more than a bit aged being from 2007, we were deliriously proud at the time to see our own Doug Bird and our embroidery shop featured in Albuquerque’s premier independent newspaper, The Weekly Alibi. They featured us in the article entitled “Set [...]