Stephen Till

Stephen has been pulling squeegees since 2004, when he started screen printing in a garage in Northwest Denver. That setup grew into A Small Print Shop (ASPS) in Denver, which he owned and ran for 15 years. He came up playing in bands, and that DIY, figure-it-out-yourself attitude shaped how he built the shop.

Closing ASPS was one of the hardest calls he’s made. It also opened a new chapter: he’s now Operations Manager at Pine Print Shop in Fort Collins, a water-based screen printing and apparel decoration shop. There he builds the systems and tools that keep the shop moving.

Stephen’s approach has always been the slow burn: take your time, stay hungry, keep learning. He’s here to talk honestly about going from owning a shop to running someone else’s, and what carries over.