Abroad in Japan Merchandise (finally) | 48 Hours in Sapporo: Day 2 (Patreon)

Hey folks!

I hope you all had a terrific weekend.

So today is an exciting day; today is the day I announce the top secret research and development program to develop new Abroad in Japan merchandise. 

Merchandise has long been one of our weakness; yes we have a few t-shirt designs that date back two years ago, and whilst they’re aesthetically pleasing enough, they’re not particularly bold or creative.

Unfortunately, I’m no graphic designer and my past attempts to work with graphic designers hasn’t gone overly well, as I’ve failed to clearly get across my ideas.

Then one day, an awesome viewer who’s also a graphic designer - known only as David - got in touch and sent over some designs that blew me away and over the course of the past month we’ve been working on preparing something new and original.

The five launch designs include;

• For F*ck’s Sake
• Love Hotel
• Capsule Hotel
• Retro "The F*cking Cleaner"
• Retro "The Electric Box"

There isn’t a design there I wouldn’t wear with pride.

Better still, through the online store, the designs will even be available on everything from phone cases to pillows (for certain designs). So if you’re not a t-shirt person you’re still covered.

They’re still about a month away from launch and over the coming weeks we’ll be setting up the shop properly, purchasing samples for quality control and producing some sort of groundbreaking promotional video.

I’ll keep you posted but let us know what you think of the three designs above, and which is your favourite in the comments below!

Today, you can find the DAY TWO of our 48 HOURS IN SAPPORO diary! It’s attached to this post in PDF, with all the preposterous photos enclosed within. As you’ll soon discover, we actually toyed with some merchandise on Day Two of our trip at a cookie factory - with questionable results.

FINALLY I’m working on three videos for this week; 6 Must Try Dishes in Aomori, the Patron exclusive “How I Produce Videos: From Start to Finish” and a yet to be titled Japanglish/Engrish video. Plenty to look forward to everyone!

Have a great start to the week,

Chris