04/14/2024
๐๐๐ฒ ๐ฒ'๐๐ฅ๐ฅ - ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ง๐ค ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ฑ๐ฅ๐๐ซ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ.
I miss servicing you as customers and well, printing in general. I've launched a new brand called ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ. This was birthed out of personal goals and to curb my angst of missing printing and the industry. Though I now teach Graphic Design & Printing, which is the most fulfilling career I never thought I would be in, I still felt compelled to "keep going" at it. "It" being making apparel. Designing, printing & selling it.
The last four years have been a trip. From being in an accident to then closing Traxler, recovering from that accident in 2020, then finding sobriety (1243 days sober!), starting back in industry at LeaderPromo, and then leaving that job to teach at my alma mater, Fort Hayes Career Center - I have been on the craziest life journey. It's incredibly hard for me to put this all into words. I've tried, too many times.
The short of it - I created ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ to inspire my students, friends, family & strangers with apparel I love to design & print - sharing positive messages & vibes through meaningful messages & illustrations on quality apparel.
My hope is that you'll enjoy what has helped my mental health tremendously. It was extremely hard for me to covert this page away from the old, into the new. Cutting off the most significant part of my past I have ever created. I guess it's more like a caterpillar ๐ morphing to a butterfly ๐ฆ than cutting anything off.
I do hope you'll stick around but understand if you choose not to.
As I tell all the students leaving school everyday (and they shout it back) "Love y'all, bye!!" -Zach (Mr. Traxler)
check out my new brand at currentfruitions.com
๐ฑ๐ด. ๐ช๐ง ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฐ, ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต, ๐'๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ (๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐ ๐ญ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ช๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ, ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ญ๐ช๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐'๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐บ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง) ๐'๐ญ๐ญ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐ด ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ด ๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ.