NoGoodz

All that the No Good Shop is, was, and will be

No Good Designs—the progenitor of this here ezine—has had a long history steeped in development and growth while at the same time down-right refusing to giving in to the wills and ways of the fashion and cash-in world that it chose to reside in. Now in it’s third collection of old skool/new skool apparel items appropriately dubbed  “tattooed t-shirts” and  “punked out pins”, No Good has subsisted on annual art events, punk show flea markets, comic book conventions, and online sales to spread the word of “No Goodness” as far as humanly possible on a budget.

Since it’s inception 5 years ago, NGD has been bent on “world domination through creative exploration”  with a bevy of items, each customized to “No Good” standards. At one time, the No Good Shop website carried not only the now familiar t-shirts and one-inch pins, but also specially designed ashtrays, mousepads, jewelry boxes, and magnets. The owner and creator of No Good, Anoki Casey, says that he “wasn’t really sure about the whole thing until I started getting my items in shops up and down the Northeastern coast line. But the real clincher”, he added from his families new San Diego condo near Petco Park, “was when I started seeing people I didn’t even know walking down the street with my stuff on. That really got me.”

This year, No Good has rethought it’s approach toward getting the goods of No Good out there. “No longer will my apartment be inundated in boxes and boxes of shirts and pins” says the owner as he explains his adoption of an on-demand business platform. “Now when I get an order for a shirt or a pin, I have my vendor create it and ship it right there on the spot. Zip, bam, boom… done.” Although Mr. Casey admits that everything up to this point has been a hand-made enterprise with No Good, he explains that he has major plans for the future on all the different ways fans can still get that home-grown No Goodness.

“Not only do I have right now in an exciting experimental stage a follow-up to my successful poker-chip jewelry line, but I’ll be releasing 4 new shirts designs each week for the No Goodniks to choose from. So no matter who and when someone returns, they’ll be something fresh for them to whet their palette on.” The No Goodniks are what he calls every customer of No Good. “Also, I’ll be working on a monthly basis of releasing new desktop patterns for Macs, PC’s, Blackberries and iPhones.”

So stay tuned, folks, although No Good has been a bit dormant since it’s moved to San Diego early last year, like the mighty California Bear during it’s winter tordor, this grassroots art and apparel sleeping giant has been just waiting for  the perfect moment to spring forth and get some!