We recently printed some owl cardigans for klt:works. klt:works creates handmade designs for the modern home and family.

Become a fan on Facebook and make sure to stop by their website www.kltworks.com.

We are always looking for new print jobs. If you are looking for some custom work shot us an email or use our Screen Printing Inquiries form.

Whenever your out on a skate follow the lines that flow down to INNATE. Issue #1.5 features Chach Law and Drew Hopps. Let them show you the way.

Here is a glimpse into what happened at the RE RE RE Opening Party at INNATE. Thanks to everyone for coming through and we hope to see you all at our Halloween party at the end of the month.

Video by Matt McDonald / Photos by Matt McDonald and Wil Drake

Whenever your out on a skate follow the lines that flow down to INNATE. Chach Law will show you the way.

Skate on down to the Artwalk at INNATE this Friday for the RE RE RE Opening of the shop. The INNATE Artwalk is the official pre-party for Allen Stone live at the Wild Buffalo this Friday. If you buy a t-shirt at INNATE that night you will get $2 off the Allen Stone show.

Facebook Events Pages
INNATE Artwalk
Allen Stone at the Wild Buffalo
WildBuffalo.net
BuildStrong.co

The INNATE Artwalk is the official pre-party for Allen Stone live at the Wild Buffalo this Friday. If you buy a t-shirt at INNATE that night you will get $2 off the Allen Stone show.

Allen Stone also just released a new album that you can pick up on iTunes. It’s a can’t miss album that you should most likely add your collection. ITUNES ALBUM LINK

Facebook Events Pages
INNATE Artwalk
Allen Stone at the Wild Buffalo
WildBuffalo.net
BuildStrong.co

We just finished up a print job for Jones Snowboards. Here’s a few snaps from the print job.

Make sure to checkout their boards and gear over at JonesSnowboards.com.

In celebration of the Oct. 7 we put together a montage of some of our recent work. At INNATE we are always creating something. Drawing, painting, screen printing, shooting photos and video and even jumping on the skate for an expressions session. So make sure to come down to the shop between 7pm and 10pm on Friday.

And don’t forget the INNATE Artwalk is the official pre-party to Allen Stone live at the Wild Buffalo. If you buy a t-shirt at INNATE that night you will get $2 off at the Allen Stone show.

Facebook Events Pages
INNATE Artwalk
Allen Stone at the Wild Buffalo
WildBuffalo.net
BuildStrong.co

Video shot by: Matt McDonald, Corey Warren and Wil Drake
Editing by: Matt McDonald
Music by: Pretty Lights

Before we went to the second night of Blue Scholars at the Wild Buffalo we stopped by the Old Foundry for Learning Team. We stumbled across a capacity all-ages crowd. Needless to say Learning Team put on one hell of a performance.

Editing by Carlton Eide and video by Matt McDonald and Tommy Calderon. Photos by Matt McDonald.

Ya, we know we’ve opened and closed more time than you can keep track of, but we’re still here and we’re here to stay. Three years deep and heavily rooted, INNATE’s doors are back open again for a crisp Autumn evening celebration with live screen printing, love, laughter and libations.

INNATE will continue forward into the Fall and Winter on a Friday-Saturday retail schedule, providing one-off t-shirt printing and a slice of Bellingham arts and music culture.

Come relax and enjoy the new digs in an environment that was designed to inspire, elevate, and engage your creative senses.

Time: Friday, October 7 · 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: INNATE 1420 North State St. Bellingham, WA

Featuring:
- DJ BoomBox-Kid will be DJ’ing
- Libations (aka drinks)
- Live screen printing and art
- Live photography and portraits to remember the night

And a few videos from our past events…

Thanks to the help, creative skill, and sheer man power of an amazing group of people, INNATE is back open for retail for 2 days a week on Fridays and Saturdays.

Our 9 month hiatus from retail has allowed us to realign, redesign, reconfigure the storefront and online model for business, as well as our back end production and design services.

INNATE stands true to its original intentions, to inspire, elevate and engage in an environment designed to encourage creativity and a sense of artistic empowerment. Whatever you do, INNATE hopes to encourage you to find what you love to do and do it well. Over the next few months, we hope to continue to refine our relationships with our community and how we interact with it.

The new space will be hosting an October 7th Art Walk event so be sure to stop by for another totally excellent celebration at the studio!

Thank you for your support of a vision in progress! Keep checking in on our website and at our storefront for the latest happenings, and continue spreading the good vibes!

In preparation of the reopening of INNATE we invited Max McNett to paint the front of the shop.

He spent some time on sketches and really came up with something beautiful to grace our storefront.

We jammed down to the Dakota Art Store to pick out the colors and paint.

Paint in hand Max started creating while Matt McDonald captured photos and video of the entire paint session.

The project took about 12 hours over the course of two days and we could not be more stoked on the new look of the shop.

As of today we are now officially open Friday and Saturday from 11am – 7pm to the public. Come on down to INNATE, check out the new paint and get some new inked-up threads.

A very talented artist by the name of Max McNett literally transformed the front of the INNATE into a work of art in less than 10 hours. Check out the snaps by Matt McDonald to hold you over until he finishes editing the video of the project.

If you didn’t know the location of INNATE before you most definitely will the next time you drive down State Street. Make sure to stop by every Friday and Saturday for some fresh prints, art and more. Also, mark your calendars because we will be part of the Friday, Oct 7th Artwalk. See you soon!

We started to throw a new coat of paint on the shop in preparation for the re-opening this Friday/Saturday. We will be be putting on the final touches later today.

Photos by Matt McDonald

We have been super busy down at the shop working on prints for the first run of merchandise for ‎Mt. Baker Ski Area. Next up: Jones Snowboards, Peace Love Pizza, Rime Knits, North Cascade Productions and more. If you are looking for some prints make sure to contact us at our Screen Printing Inquiries page.

Photos by Matt McDonald

DMB CARAVAN 2011 – ‘The Gorge’ from Wil Drake on Vimeo.

Behold! We invite you to tag along and experience the process of planning, printing and collaborating. Adventure with a crew of like minded individuals who prescribe to peace, love and positive vibrations. Much thanks to everyone involved we had an awesome weekend doing what we love!

C O L L E C T I V E Media Group presents in collaboration with INNATE, Empty Roll Productions and Dyrland Productions MakeShift Dave Mathews Band Caravan 2011 ‘The Gorge’

We invite you to tag along and experience the process of planning, printing, and collaborating. Adventure with a crew of like minded individuals who prescribe to peace, love, and positive vibrations.

Tonight the local DJ duo Wishbone is playing with Chicago based DJs The Hood Internet at Glow.

In celebration of the dance party that will be going down tonight in Bellingham pick up one of our new tees “If You Can Walk You Can Dance”.

We will be taking some more photos at Glow tonight of the live performance. We hope to see you there. Stoked!

Photos and video by Matt McDonald.

We made the trip to the Gorge for Dave Matthews Band. It was an epic weekend spreading positive vibes and flying our new caravan flags high.

We will have more photos and video from the trip soon.

Going big! Flying our peace flag high above the Columbia Gorge this weekend! Look for us!

Hey Bellingham hip hoppers! Check the local Bellingham style of Jesus Chris Willis new mix tape for those sunny days. Enjoy!

Back to the drawing board… Mt. Baker designs are on the chopping block for the 2011-12 season!

The INNATE brand was conceived on this day, the 8th of August, three years ago in 2008 during the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China. As a bit of background, young American swimmer Michael Phelps was attempting 8 medals in his respective events in the pool. The media made it clear that although Phelps had a great deal of talent and training, luck would need to play its role in order for him to achieve his goal. We wanted to share a bit of symbology on the number 8 and its significance to us:

- The number 8 is the luckiest of all numbers in Chinese culture.

- “The mystery of the 8 is that of eternal and continuous spiral motion, which is constant throughout the universe. The life force currents that sweep through the body in the form of a figure 8, following the cerebrospinal and sympathetic nervous systems, like radiations of light. The horizontal 8 (∞) means “as above, so below.”

- It is a symbol of power, and represents accumulation, strength, power and augmentation.

- In Indian culture, the symbology of the 8 as a word represents “worker: will revolutionize society and manifest through fame and fortune”

- The 8′s relative metal is iron, it’s body chemistry is air (vata), its Karmic lesson is kindness and forgiveness, and its profession manifests as public servants and executives.

- The number 8 is known as “the great balancer” and represents the belief that you reap what you sow.

- Furthermore, in balance, the 8 suggests the idea that all actions have consequences, AKA cause and effect.

On behalf of the INNATE crew, we’d like to say a humble “thank you” to every single individual that has supported our ideas and growth along the way.

As a recent blessing from our dear friend reads, “this business be love in action from roots to fruit, this business be an altar of prosperity & sanctuary to all who enter. This business be art, be our gifts & greatness inspired. This business evolving to revive Earth. This business, this dream, realized and alive! In remembrance, in thanks, for the good of all, this business be for people, for pleasure, for planet and for profit.”

Thank you, gracias, asante, merci, grazie, danke, arigato, mahalo. ∞

There’s no place like Idahome…
This shirt was designed with the 208 in our hearts and the open land in our minds… inspired by the decadence and grandeur of everything Idaho, we bring you the Idahome t-shirt, available in crew neck, v-neck, sweatshirt or tank top!

PayPal us at: innations@gmail.com
Pricing- t-shirts and tanks $24 // hoodies $45

special requests may be made and we’ll try our best to accommodate you!

Our third stab at the beast that is printing the Legendary Banked Slalom hoodies has proven to be one of our most technical but smooth jobs yet. Mt. Baker’s marketing team gave the INNATE crew the opportunity to design the artwork for the Legendary Banked Slalom in 2009…, and designers Yale Wolf and Corey Warren brought it to life with an original piece of work that turned into a full production- 4 colors, sewn in custom tags, and color matched strings made the final product. The second year Seattle designer Rob Zwiebel tackled the art work and we were again given the opportunity to produce. This year our friend Evan Whitehead took the reigns and painted a masterpiece scene of the classic Shuksan view, swooping turns and the omnipresent raven carving turns through the air. We had our friend Kevan Hartmann at Westar Solutions separate the file into 6 colors and burn a set of fresh screens for us. Starting the job off on the right foot carried us through a smooth printing session through out the weekend. Five hundred and fifty odd hoodies, shirts, and tags later, the beast has been slain and the client is happy. Thanks Mt Baker for another amazing opportunity to be involved with the longest running, core snowboarding event in the world. Til next time…. pray for powder!

With 7 wholesome and beautiful days behind us on the road (and recently skiing off of it) the INNATE crew is relaxed and rejuvenated after a crisp evening in the Tetons. A hot meal in our bellies was luxurious after an epic afternoon of hitch hike skiing and a phenomenal sunset run off the east slope of Teton Pass, at the base of which we camped for the night.

Each time we embarked on the short hike from the car to the drop-in point we’d run into a handful of fellow mountain heads with whom we’d share a handful of patches and stickers. Lots of good peeps in this part of the world- with a simple desire to live in harmony with high altitude, fresh air and ample terrain, it’s no wonder a statement like Love your Land or Nurture your Nature resonates with folks in Tetonia, especially if it’s exchanged at the top of a fresh powder field moments before dropping in. This trip’s raw, unplanned and serendipitous encounters have allowed us to connect with like minded people on a genuine level time after time to share what we and INNATE are all about.

As I write this, we’re making plans to grub on a cowboy breakfast in the near future, and then head toward Bozeman MT and Big Sky after one more run off of Teton Pass. So far so good- cheers from the crew: Corey, Dylan, Wil, and the powder hounds Zara, Thompson, and Tye the traveler that found us in Utah. More to come…

With SLC and the Outdoor Retailer trade show behind us, not to mention two great days of skiing and some solid networking and media distribution, the VW van is packed back up with three dudes and three dogs (more on the extra dog later… Divine intervention brought him to us) and are Jackson Hole-bound for the next leg of the journey. Big huge thanks to Contour HD cameras, Smith optics, and Brighton Ski Resort for keeping us styled and dialed. More to come…. Peace from the road

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving…”
- Lao Tzu

Love Your Land Tour: Thursday morning we embark on an adventure with no fixed plans and no intended destination, save for the Outdoor Retailer Show in Salt Lake City. We (which, I should clarify is now 3 guys and 2 dogs) will be spending a couple days roaming the floor at one of the industry’s largest outdoor lifestyle trade shows, networking and sharing a little bit of North West love in the form of patches, stickers, hoodies and t shirts. Making new connections with like minded individuals is always something that we keep on the forefront of our minds because you never know what direction a new friend might lead you. Maintaining an open mind and a freestyle mentality is our strategy for this trip.

We once heard that “luck is when proper preparation meets an unknown opportunity,” so for the last few weeks we’ve been brainstorming cheap and effective ways to market INNATE to a whole slough of different people along the way. We’ve been making calls to various resorts, business owners and artists in other mountain communities like Salt Lake, Missoula, Bozeman, Big Sky, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, and Schweitzer Mountain, with intention to share the creativity and positive
Vibrations that we value like currency.

November 5, 2010 was an evening of celebration of local brands, artists, and music as we ventured into the winter season. Bellingham is a creative mecca and we brought a group of you budding brands and artists that represent this vibrant and flourishing community together for a night. Fresh artwork, new t-shirt designs, and plenty of inspiration for all was spread throughout the night.

The night featured the creative works of Mike Ennen, Max McNett, Norman Roque, BuildStrong, Epoch Apparel, Rime Knits, Topless Headwear and The Blessed Coast Sound System.

We are stoked to be part of the Northwest Skim Tour by helping print the tees for the tour.

Make sure to check out NWSTOUR.com for all of the tour happenings and to pick up a sweet tee.

The Helladope boys got a little surprise gift from INNATE for their CD release party at The Wild Buffalo. They sported the fresh prints at the show. Check out the photos.

We have new art on the walls, new tees ready to print and the shop is ready for the grand reopening. We hope to see everyone tonight for the Artwalk. We will also be streaming the event live on out Web site.

As winter approaches we like to encourage the snow to come to Baker and the Pacific Northwest. Here’s another video by Matt McDonald made completely of still photos capturing the essence that was Pray for Powder.

A video by Matt McDonald capturing the night with still photos at the Wild Buffalo. It was an awesome night!

We decided to do a little timelapse with Matt and Austin from BuildStrong for one the printing of one of their tees.