BluPrint Clothing is Julie Machado along with a select group of contributing artists. It was founded in the summer of 2003 by Machado, after being inspired by a Parsons School of Design experiments course where she learned how to print cyanotypes. Cyanotype is the same chemicals that architects use to create their blueprints. She began printing her photographs on fabric with this ancient form of printing. Photographing the world around her, she shot images at street level and incorporated her friend’s graffiti as a way to make this very impermanent visual art form more permanent.
Each creatively inspired garment is one of a kind. Hand silk-screened with various color blends and mostly hand-stitched, no two garments are ever alike.
On the inside track with an ever-growing list of well known artists including SYE5, GUAVA (Luis Arevalo), Evan Robarts, WORDS, LEBO, EDEC (Chris Mendoza) & RAGE (Skott Johnson), BluPrint Clothing creates garments that are then embellished with original artwork directly on the fabric, transforming a work of art into something wearable.
Julie graduated with a BFA from Parsons School of Design and a BA in Art History from Eugene Lang College in May 2004. She was born and raised in Miami Beach, lived in New York City for 10 years, and now lives in Los Angeles, where she is happy to be collaborating with her sister Amy.
