Get Some HEALTH Austin

HEALTH will be coming to Austin this June 26 and will be rocking out at the Red 7. This print was create by Michael C. Fuchs and it is a design of a old plinko machine that has a back texture of tree bark. There is a total of 5 colors for this print and the sizing is 25x19. There is only 53 prints in this edition and each print was printed by hand by the artist himself. These prints were all done at Under Pressure Screen printing in South Austin. These prints are just magic and are printed with love.

Workshops for June

Due to popular demand, we have added new workshop days to our June Calendar.

There are three categories offered; Start to Finish, Poster Collective, and Candy Colors. Each one focuses on a different aspect of screen printing and the processes involved in making shirts and posters.

If you are new to screen printing we highly suggest our Start to Finish beginner course. You need no prior knowledge of printing before entering this class and will leave with a brain bursting wealth of knowledge that will have you churning out your own shirts at home in no time.

For people looking to expand their screen printing pallet we offer two advanced workshops that focus on poster making and multi-color printing. These classes are not reserved only for those who have taken our beginner course, but highly suggest starting there and working your way up.

Call today to reserve a spot, classes sizes are small and fill up fast. 512-445-3488
-U.P. crew

Lotus Tour Poster YES!!!!!

The Lotus posters are done and after three screen printing sessions at our South Austin print shop they shipped out today. This great design was done by Johnny Dimas, an up and coming designer who exemplifies cool and clean design work.He loves how he can turn a digital design into a tangible piece of artwork through screen printing.

The first color we put down filled the paper almost edge to edge with peacock blue. We printed this first layer in just under 5 hours, and whether our heads were playing tricks on us or not the paper seemed to grow in size in weight with every new screen print.

The second layer we printed was reminiscent of French wallpaper. Upon inquiry not even Johnny was sure where he found this vintage pattern, but who the hell cares, it looked pretty badass. You can't copyright vintage wallpaper patterns can you?

The last layer was the brown and it went off with out a hitch. This added much needed completeness to the poster, bringing the whole design together. Lotus will be coming to Austin on Friday April 23rd at Emo's and if you want jam this is the place to be on that day. With that said back to work and more prints to come in the next day. Hopefully all of these posters don't sell out in Colorado.

-U.P. crew

Live printing at Swanky SXSW Ustream Party

Last night the U.P. crew was screen printing live in downtown Austin for an official SXSW interactive party. Ustream, an online community of self proclaimed Speilbergs, hosted a gala of an event at Pheonix Bar on 4th and colorado. I hope this bar can hold steady in that location; it was straight up swanky. Modern wrap sofas, digital multi-colored flouyrescent ligh accents and wonderfully tacky fake crystal chandeliers. I have to admit, we felt quite spoiled being a part of this event.

As with any live printing endeavor, when the shirts are free the crowd turns into a veritable feeding frenzy. We pre-printed 300+ shirts and live printed close to 200. Every last one was taken. Early in the night people were able to pick their design and color, but as the crowd grew and loomed around us we just started shirt slingin' left and right literally throwing shirts across the room to people.


Closing out the night, Gym class heroes played an energetic set fervently trying to get a mostly-male crowd of interactive geeks to shake it. We might have been the only people dancing.

Shirt slingin' and dancing: that's an ok combination by me.

Tegan and Sara Posters sold out!!!

Thanks to everyone who supported screenprinting in Austin last Friday by buying a limited edition Tegan and Sara poster for their show at Bass Concert Hall. We managed to make 60 of these colorful little beauties. If you were one of the few to snag one at the show count yourself lucky, they sold out early. I mean, who doesn't love bike racks and balloons?



The quirky and colorful combination was custom designed by owner Sam Ladach-Bark and shop artist Brian Almaraz. Look for more custom combination from this pair in the future. Currently they are working on designs for Camera Obscura and Of Montreal. Both slated to pass through Austin later this spring. Updates to come soon.

Akron and Family

Akron and Family are playing with Warpaint tonight at The Parish in Austin, Texas. This is for sure to be a show of hotness and chanting. The posters have been made and this sweet screen printed poster will be for sale tonight.

Let start with color one a green the means earth. This is the first color we printed down on fine french paper. These posters were printed all by hand with fine water base flat inks that have no gloss.


The next color we printed was that sweet purp and we used all 230 meshed screens to do these screen printed poster prints.

The next color we put down was a fat light blue making more goodness. Each color adds more the this poster.

Orange was the last color we printed on this poster before the outlines of black and we have the final sweet eye candy product for the show this night.

There are so many colors in these prints. This poster art was done all by hand by Michael Fuchs. First I started with a pencil drawing that was than transferred into photoshop and layers were created for the fills. All of the art was bought on by Akron and Family's music that is color to the ears and the eyes. So strap one of these posters to you wall and let the portals open up.

tegan and sara

Today's happenings: We are printing badass limited edition Tegan and Sara posters for their show next week at bass concert hall. Who doesn't love bike racks and balloons?