Where does the name Pulpo en su tinta come from?

One of the things I’m always asked when I explain that I have a screen printing workshop is what it’s called, and then comes the question of where that peculiar name comes from. Well, today you’re going to find out where it comes from :D.

It was in 2009 when my friend Enric Lleyda and I decided to dedicate part of our time to doing small screen printing jobs, and like every project it needed a name. We brainstormed one day on the way to the metro and I think we ended up refining it in conversations on Facebook. At that time we were very punk so we came up with very striking and weird names. We started with animals, I don’t remember any specific name but it was surely some very stupid one like "The printing dog" or "The painting monkeys"...
The machine for screen printing is called pulpo, it is that tool with different arms where the screens are held, these arms move 360º. In 2009 Enric and I didn’t even have money for sunflower seeds (I think we still don’t nowadays), so of course we couldn’t afford to buy one of those wonderful screen printing pulpos.
This is how Pulpo Muñón. was born. It's a very sadistic name, I know, but it was very funny. We didn't have machinery and did everything by hand, one held the screen while the other printed, and so on until Enric's father made us a wooden machine to print 1 color. Some time passed, I got the current workshop on C/Arizala and decided to modify the name a bit to be less crude, it was easy to decide on a new name being surrounded all day by kilos and kilos of ink.


In 2009 the trendy social network was Myspace and if you were cool you had to send a "Thanks" to the people who had recently added you. Enric knew perfectly how to graphically represent our old name.