Hit + Run Crew is the name of an L.A.-based print shop with a novel way of doing business: They do their manufacturing in public. Founders Brandy Flower and Mike Crivello have designed and built a portable T-shirt silkscreening rig that breaks down into a flight case. They then bring five of these on-site to events–parties, concerts, conferences, street fairs, etc.–and set up a mobile factory, where participants can select patterns and have shirts printed on-demand. Hit + Run’s set-up time is less than an hour, and over the course of a three- to six-hour event they can crank out 100-500 shirts.
Their success speaks to an obvious fact: People love seeing stuff being made. 3D printers might not yet be fast enough to match the rate at which Hit + Run can produce, but we expect that as the technology advances, we’ll see entrepreneurs adapting Hit + Run’s model for industrial design. Here bellow is their self-produced video showing what they do. For more information follow their link.