Posted by: Colin Hageney

This Mother’s Day was a special day for several reasons.  My 3-year-old son, Harry and I decided to walk with 2,500+ Houstonians along Buffalo Bayou in the Y-ME Walk to Empower, a 3-mile walk to raise money to fight breast cancer.  Having lost a mother and a mother-in-law to cancer (not to mention Harry losing two grandmothers), I couldn’t think of a better way to start this special Sunday. 

EMS Global’s marketing guru, Trevor Eade, invited us to join their walking team – “The Pipeline Posse”.  Even better, Trevor had Bullpen’s t-shirt experts produce the team shirt – a navy Hanes Beefy Short-Sleeve Contrast Stitch t-shirt with (count ‘em) ten screens total (1 on the front, 4 on the back, 1 on the right sleeve, 4 on the left sleeve).  The 3 shades of pink on the front and left sleeve created an amazing 3-D effect. 

The weather was absolutely perfect and shortly before the start of the race, the MC announced that EMS had won the best overall t-shirt of the 20+ teams!  It made the walk that much sweeter to wear the winning shirt that Bullpen produced up and down the bayou with pride.  The only thing that could have made the day better would have been if we could have joined the Pipeline Posse at their brunch at 1308 Cantina on Montrose, but alas… the 3-year old and his dad were spent.

Y-ME public service announcement

Colin

Here’s the screenprinting layout for the back:

Posted by: Lauri Laufman, MAS

As a solution provider, when recently requested to come up with a safety related idea to tie in with a client’s awareness project the subject of personal identification theft protection came to mind since it has been in the news so much of late.

We get so much mail these days with personal identifiers on them. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could recycle all that extra paper and just remove those identifiers?

The solution utilized based on a $5 budget per recipient was a pair of scissors… but not just your ordinary desk style pair. Nope, these 7-1/2″ shears feature 5 stainless steel blades which allow the recipient to safely and securely destroy confidential documents and materials that should not be otherwise innocently tossed. 

Client was not only thrilled to meet budget but the icing on the cake was their employees appreciation to the gift provided.

Lauri Laufman, MAS