Packers Tailgate: My Designated Driver sighting

Thanks to Randy Ludowitz for sharing this picture!

Ryan wears pink for his mom

Let's hope five years from now he doesn't regret wearing pink

Friends of Oppermacher: Megan

Oppermacher's blue and white t-shirt is a good look for Megan!

Friends of Oppermacher: Lizzy

Eyes on the road, Lizzy Fahser!

Friends of Oppermacher: Nikki

Nikki Carriveau and Gavin

The King of Shirts

Florian, Worst Call Ever, and Budweiser.

Weeding

At Five Kids Shirts we start them young.

The Birds

Note the I-S on this new shirt we love, The Birds

Russellmania III

Russellmania, Seattle style

Oppermacher's new Kickstarter campaign

Oppermacher has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a business building venture.

Kickstarter is an emerging tech company that provides tools to raise funds for creative projects via crowdfunding. Its projects cover a wide array of creative initiatives, including video games, films, music, and apparel. Backers pledge money toward a project’s goal, and while they receive no equity in the project, they are typically rewarded for their contributions.

Oppermacher’s Kickstarter campaign aims to raise $4,000 to provide shirts for 140 custom T-shirts for youth soccer players in the company’s hometown of Iola. The Sport Wick shirts feature the word “COMPETE” in black letters on an orange shirt.

Local brand building is a key component of the campaign. The “OM” in COMPETE is designed in the style of Oppermacher’s logo, which will also be featured on the shirt’s back neck.



“We are really excited to see what a Kickstarter campaign can do for our little shirt company,” said Oppermacher’s Scott Tappa. “Kickstarter is getting a lot of press for the cool creative projects it has helped make possible, and we’ve seen some great apparel projects whose success we hope to emulate.”

The centerpiece of Oppermacher’s Kickstarter campaign is a four-minute video featuring Iola youth athletes Will Tappa and Brock Opperman talking about the shirts they have worn playing sports recently, and the thought process behind the COMPETE shirts.

“Under Armour is a real inspiration to us, and that company’s founder, Kevin Plank, got his apparel business of the ground with grassroots effort -- giving his clothes to his friends to wear,” said Tappa. “We’re hoping to do something similar on a much, much smaller scale.”

Oppermacher’s Kickstarter campaign can be found at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/721608094/compete-youth-athletic-shirts-by-oppermacher.