The t-shirts have been refolded, the prints have been rerolled, the boxes are returned to the basement.  The cakes crumbs have been swept up and fed to the birds, the sticky splashes of spilt Air-cider have been wiped from the floor, and the fleeting wonder that was the Airside Pop-up Shop, has once more become a mere meeting room.

Thanks to everyone who came to see us on Friday and Saturday. As an online shop, we’ve become accustomed to minimal interaction with our customers, so it was really great fun to meet all you Airside Shoppers. We must do it again sometime. In the meantime, keep your eyes peeled for the all-new airsideshop.com – coming soon!

We are officially very excited about tomorrow’s opening of Airside: The Pop-Up Shop. Our shop manager Natalie has worked her bump off to transform our meeting room into a brilliant bazaar packed with t-shirts, prints and other assorted goodies. Here’s a sneak peek at the fruits of her labour, as our little Pop-Up Shop bathes in the glorious evening sunshine.

Airside: The Pop-Up Shop opens tomorrow at 11am. There will be music, prize draws, cake, our infamous Air-Cider and much more going on throughout the day, until 8pm. We hope to see you there, but if you can’t make it tomorrow, we’re also open on Saturday. Don’t forget everything must go, so expect bargains and giveaways galore. Full details here.

A bunch of Airsiders recently went on a screen-printing course at Print Club London. Not content with merely learning, we decided that each of the six participants would produce a print based around a common theme.

What with there being six people and all of them having six on the brain, we called it The Joy of Six. Check out all six prints below along with more on the inspiration behind each of them.

Alex revisited his Penguin Pool t-shirt (no longer in stock I’m afraid) and screen print to resculpt the classic curves of Berthold Lubetkin’s London Zoo penguin pool design into the shape of the number six.

You may have p-p-p-p-picked up on the fact that he added a sixth penguin. It wouldn’t have fitted the theme otherwise.

Chris’ inspiration was the classic six-gun revolver commonly carried by Wild West gunslingers and how it appears in the big bad world of a child’s imagination.

The little kid wears a paper hat and uses his hands for guns but in his head he is the biggest baddest sheriff in the living room/hallway area. Lee Van Cleef with milk teeth if you will.

Our intern Erica took the opportunity to indulge in her latest obsession and draw six dogs in fancy dress.

From a piratical bulldog to the very disturbing hotdog this canine sextet is the wonkiest team of sleigh dogs ever assembled.

Not only does the devil have all the best tunes, he also has the best numbers. Jamie’s print recalls heady days of childhood.

Penny sweets, endless summers and the relentless pursuit of an audience with his Satanic Majesty.

The joy of six. . .mmmmmh 6. . .mmmmh. . .69? Anyone familiar with Malika’s previous work might have guessed her print would go this way.

Her naughty Frenchness kicked in again and here we are: another sexy graphic that’s more about what your mind imagines than what your eye actually sees.

Studio manager and Airside Shop goddess Natalie went down a literary road and ended up as the glue binding the collection together.

Enjoy her marvellous musings on The Joy of Six. The full text is printed below.

Look at the number 6 all happy and proud. For the number 6 is a perfect number.
It creates points on stars, strings on guitars and the word ‘moon’ in a text.
It is so good Satan named it thrice.
It smiles knowing that its day is considered the best of the week and beams as its month welcomes summer.

But in its darkest hour, the number 6 knows that despite being a perfect number not all is peachy keen.
For example nobody likes 6am and 6-packs are on a steep decline.
Its own 6-pack merely a swollen belly; looks that are neither as sleek as the number 7 nor as interesting as the number 4.
He is haunted by and well aware that if he didn’t sound like the word sex, there’d be no ‘Joy of six’.

It’s nearly time for us to unleash the 2009 Airside Calendar on an unsuspecting world. Today we took a trip down to our new printers Calverts to see the first batch roll off the presses.

Above is the magic of the CMYK process in action on the front and back covers. Exciting, isn’t it?

Thanks to Calverts, this year’s calendar is our greenest yet: it is on FSC-approved recycled paper made from 100% post-consumer waste using bio-vegetable-oil-based inks.

It should be ready in a couple of weeks but you can pre-order your copy now.

Education. Education. Education. We are all about education, especially when it’s comes in the form of our sexy Alphabunnies, who have alphabetically arranged themselves in all states of undress on our brand new A-Z screen print, available now from Airside Shop.

The animation above is an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the girls getting into position.

Say my name girls.