The Growing Sublimation Market

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News

• 2019 Impressions Awards – Decorators of all sizes and experience levels are invited to submit their work. The 41st annual contest will be judged at the Fort Worth Imprinted Sportswear Shows (ISS) event, which will be held Oct. 3-5, and winners will be announced Oct 5. Prizes include a free Impressions Expo full-conference package for the overall grand champion, to be used at the Impressions Expo event of the winner’s choice in 2020. Additionally, all first-place winners in each category will receive a single Impressions Expo seminar or workshop, to be used at any one Impressions Expo event in 2020 of each winner’s choice. The deadline for entry is Aug. 31. 

• Dri Duck Exec to Compete on New Amazon Prime Reality Show – Nicole Parker, vice president of Kansas City-based workwear brand Dri Duck, is gearing up for her big television debut. Parker has been selected to compete on a new Amazon Prime reality series, The Social Movement. The six-part series will follow Parker and 40 other leaders, entrepreneurs and investors as they work in teams to help nonprofits create a business strategy to solve socioeconomic issues, such as natural disasters, affordable healthcare, wage inequality and the education gap.

The Growing Sublimation Market

Aaron: Start us off with a little background. What lead you to create Sublimation for Beginners and Beyond and your love affair with sublimation?

Terry: So being actively involved with sublimation on a daily basis, at the basic level what are some of the trends you are seeing?

Aaron: What do you feel is the reason that sublimation as a decorating process continues to grow and attract so many new folks all the time?

Terry: What is your take on the new EasySubli™ Heat Transfer Vinyl from Siser. Has there been much discussion about it in your group?

Aaron: So speaking of your group, what do you think the key to your success is? You have a very large membership, lots of people looking to join and a very active and supportive group. Why?

Terry: Well it sounds like you have plenty on your plate, but we understand you have taken on another pretty large projects, The Sublimation Summit. Tell us about that.

Cheryl Kuchek is the owner of Just My Imagination DeZigns, Inc. She has been active in the personalization industry for over 15 years. Cheryl has a passion for the industry and a love for helping people. It was fitting that she would be the first to start a Facebook group to do that very thing. Sublimation for Beginners and Beyond is not just a Facebook group, but a resource to help those first starting out and those advanced.