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Erich

Expand your understanding and hone your technical skills as veteran award-winning digitizer, e-commerce manager and all-around technophile Erich Campbell explores and explains the intersection of embroidery, technology, creativity and business. He’s the go-to guy for stitches and tech at Black Duck Embroidery and Screen Printing in Albuquerque, NM, one of the Southwest's largest screen-printing and embroidery firms. You can find him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/erich.campbell, follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/blackduckinc or e-mail him at ecampbell@blackduckonline.com.

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Tread Lightly

When decorators and designers react to tragedy, we must tread lightly. read more...
Posted: Monday, April 22, 2013

Breaking Down the Blame Game

Everyone knows the players in this sorry game; we have an angry, disappointed customer and everyone in your shop is ready to play, all looking to avoid the fallout. read more...
Posted: Friday, March 29, 2013

Learning to Accept (and Compensate for) Distortion in Your Embroidery

Distortion – The word sounds entirely negative, doesn't it? read more...
Posted: Monday, February 25, 2013

Surviving a Minor Disaster

In darkness, through the leaves rushing lightly in the draft of overhead fans, I stepped carefully through the angled gap that funnels through Black Duck's atrium – wary of the heavily tiled planters read more...
Posted: Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Be Prepared: The Elevator Pitch and Beyond

So, you're at an event when a friend introduces you as 'the embroidery guy' or 'gal,' and one of two things usually happens. read more...
Posted: Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Embroidery Digitizers: Be the Operator

It's easy to forget at times that we are not simply designers or interpreters of design, but that we are tasked with the control of a complex and sensitive machine. read more...
Posted: Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Creativity Only Looks Easy – Cut Yourself Some Slack!

Recently, I've had the good fortune of being able to make more and more creative decisions about what and how I digitize due to the trust I've earned from my clients. read more...
Posted: Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Digitizing for Non-Digitizers – Basic Skills to Save Your Designs (and Your Deadlines)

Let's face it: As much as I extol the virtues of digitizing, and I enjoy the freedom of expression that I get from plying my trade, not every new embroiderer will become a digitizer and there's nothin read more...
Posted: Monday, October 22, 2012

The Horrors of 'Cupping' in Embroidery - Fighting Substrate Distortion

The machine beeps triumphantly as it completes the final, slow stitches of your design. read more...
Posted: Monday, October 1, 2012
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