Bean Dip Clothing
BEAN DIP CLOTHING is a product of long days, and longer nights. Influenced by all aspects of life, people, and music, our philosophy is if anyone works hard and believes in what they are doing, success will soon follow.
“Mediocrity is self-inflicted, genius is self-bestowed.”
James Russell and Bill Smeltzer are Co-Owners of BEAN DIP Clothing, who design and hand screen print the main line. In addition, the Artist Connection allows up and coming artists to relay their work onto a different medium. The Artist Connection Family consists of Matt Collins, Danny Jones, Daryl Waller, and Jason Woodside.
Bean Dip started as a side project hand screen-printing limited run t-shirts and slapping stickers around town. We wanted to make clothing that focused more on the design aspect, not a name, the name was to be irrelevant or even misleading. Design of the tees have two aspects, one from a close view showing detail, and another for the overall look from afar.
Before we started Bean Dip, both of us were attending college; James working on graphic and web site design, and Bill learning the ropes of business and marketing. After graduating, the path laid out before us wasn\’t attractive, so we decided to pave our own road. Coincidentally, our backgrounds complemented each other and Bean Dip was born in early 2006.
