Rookie Rise Blog

Halloween is right around the corner. That means, we need to release a halloween based t-shirt! I've been designing all through the year, but I've had this one Rookie Rise mascot themed as one of my favorite childhood horror movie villains that i've been wanting to do a short run of. We'll be releasing only 25 of these LE Fright Night Tees. Each T-Shirt will have Gold limited edition woven tags sewed to each hem. They will be numbered 1 of 25, 2 of 25 and so on. I have teased this design on social media a time or two. Some...

What does Black Rock Coffee Bars and Rookie Rise have to do with each other? We both started our companies, right here in Portland Oregon and we teamed up for the day to give our community a taste of support and unity. We geared up the crews at Black Rock with our Rook Face tees. The crews included Gladstone Oregon, Happy Valley Oregon and Milwaukie Oregon. I've been drinking Black Rock since it opened. When I'm designing and start to sink into a low caffeinated slump, I'll head up the street and grab myself a drink, normally it's a Rockstar,...

Back To School shopping is here already! Holy Shhhh-crap, where does the time go. I feel like I graduated high school yesterday sometimes. With the new year coming up, we are releasing a new T-Shirt this Friday. No, I can't show you the whole thing, but for coming across this article we are going to offer you a discount on this new design! Here's an early look of the artwork that i'm currently working on. As a designer, we tend to never know when a design is finished. I can't tell you how much more will be added, taken away or what I'll do...

Painful? A website facelift? How so? Let me explain: We stayed up until our eyes collapsed, we turned down going out on the weekends and our heads hurt from exhausting our brains. On top of that, our site was down for over a week while we migrated all of the data. That's what we mean by painful but it all paid off. As I worked on migrating the data and getting the design laid out, Jeremy was plugging away at the content for our products. We took a quick break to get some food at a nice spot called "Jefe" in Lake Oswego Oregon. Edgar...

I'm going to take a moment in this blog to get a little deep and little personal. I've been around a lot of alcoholics and drug addicts for many parts of my life. I never fell into the addiction trap, but I know how hard it is to try to lift someone out of a deep, dark, spiraling descent as they waste away to nothing. I watched my brother go through almost every drug in the book. He was a great athlete growing up. He was faster than most track athletes, but he never ran in track. He could juke,...