Interview with Joe Jenkins from St Ink Clothing

We caught up with one half of St Ink Clothing Joe Jenkins and had a quick chat about tattoos and t-shirts!

Cat On The Wall: Who are the 2 guys behind St Ink Clothing? Tell us about yourselves!

Joe Jenkins: Right its myself Joe Jenkins and one of my best mates Nick Densley

COTW: How did St Ink Clothing come about?

JJ: Me and nick work together and we both by a lot of T shirts off the net with 'fancy pants' designs which we like. One day nick just turned to me and said you know what we should start our own T shirt company, I thought it was a wicked idea and be a good chance for me to finally use my art work in a productive way. A lot of 'tattoo' design T shirts are mainly things like Sailor Jerry and Lucky 13, we wanted to try and do our own unique style of Tattoo Design 'Old Skool meets New Skool' from there I got excited and started to think of some ideas for designs while nick got in contact with various printers working out costs etc.

COTW: Why do tattoos play such a big part in your designs?

JJ: The reason behind this is that I mainly draw tattoo designs for myself and friends and I wanted to transfer that onto a t shirt as a way of people seeing more of my work I suppose a walking portfolio of some kind :)

COTW: Will we see a St Ink tattoo book in the near future? I can image your designs looking fantastic as tattoos themselves!

JJ: Yeah we hope to get things moving and more designs although at the moment it is a large learning cure for us both as we have never done this and kinda messed up the first time round with what T's we went for and design and cost! But you learn from your mistakes! So at the moment just re thinking our strategy but I’m sure you will see some more coming at ya soon!

COTW: Where can we find St Ink T-Shirts?

JJ: At the moment you can find them on our myspace page, www.myspace.com/stinkclothing or www.stinkclothing.bigcartel.com although we are sold out at present

Things have slowed down a lot nearly a complete stop due to things not going as we planned but as mentioned above we haven’t done this before and are learning from our mistakes but apart from that its hard trying to find the time to do this around our fulltime jobs as well but watch this space!

Interviewed by Jo Whitby on behalf of Cat On The Wall.