Please find some links and notes from the 2 Regular Guys Podcast. Jeremy Picker is the creative director and CEO at AMB3R Creative, a Colorado-based merchandise design firm with over 20 years of experience in the fashion industry. Jeremy is going to lead us through the design development process and help us with some creative ways to use the decorating method we have available to us. Don’t miss your chance to learn some new creative techniques, and get some great ideas for bringing move perceived value to your products.

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News *  I reached out to Marcia and Josh at Impressions Expo yesterday to see if there’s any buzz about the coronavirus impacting the Atlantic City show. They say everything is a “go” and based on attendee sign ups exceeding expectations. The reason I reached out was a conversation I had with an industry manufacturer last week who said some vendor meetings had been canceled because the meeting attendees didn’t want to fly, and an article in the Wall Street Journal talking about event cancellations across the country.* In the embroidery world, we lost one of our veteran educators who had moved mostly into the home market, but who was part of the formative years for many of the professionals out there in the industry Walter Floriani Jr. Walter educated a number of digitizers in the early days of my career through his FUN Club and had since gone on to teach thousands more in the home and craft space. He has the dubious distinction of being the educator for the one and only embroidery class I ever attended some time into my career, but he gave me an appreciation for the history of machine embroidery and the control old-school punchers showed in their work. He will be missed.* THE NBM SHOW hosts the first-ever START HERE Academy in Indianapolis on June 10 from 4–8 p.m. The educational conference takes place the night before the start of THE NBM SHOW at the Indiana Convention Center & Lucas Oil Stadium. The 101-level educational conference provides valuable start-up resources for makers and crafters interested in turning their hobby into a business, and for those looking to add new profit centers in related markets to their business.

Creative Design Development Jeremy Picker is the creative director and CEO at AMB3R Creative, a Colorado-based merchandise design firm with over 20 years of experience in the fashion industry. Jeremy has helped launch and grow merchandise for major l...