TRADEMARK & LOGO!

We’ve officially filed for a trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. We are now waiting for the “all clear”. It’s pretty exciting to think that our line is shaping up, from a just a thought a few years ago, to steadily building some momentum!

We’ve been working with a web developer on our website. We actually met him while we were in high school; he was a foreign-exchange student from Ukraine! Through the magic of Facebook, we’ve reconnected, and he and his team are now developing our site. Living in Ukraine makes things tricky, so we’ve learned to heavily rely on email and the occasional Skype conversation. Tentatively, we’d like a “condensed” version to launch for Holiday 2009… stay tuned.

Here is the logo we've agreed to use… They are starting to take shape!

-Daniel

Let Us Introduce Ourselves...

We’ve decided to start a clothing line. Leu and I met while we both worked at Macy’s buying office in the Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis. For years we’ve been talking about starting our own line… it originated as just ideas for clothes discussed over random work happy hours. Then this summer (2009), we started getting serious about the idea. So we hired a graphic artist and a web developer and got to work. Leu pretty much handles all the clothing design ideas and development, while I work on creative.

We’d really like the clothes to represent Minneapolis and “feel” Midwest, while still pushing the edge, trend-wise. We’d like for TAN & SOLOMON to be bigger than us; it would be great to connect with local artists, musicians and actors to push Minneapolis arts forward.

-Daniel