There’s millions of Star Wars T-Shirts on the web, and even more with some inspiration from the style or characters from the films.
I really like this one from GaffaUK because it’s not trying to be a massively detailed technical masterpiece, it’s trying to pack in a whole film into a single colour ‘infographic’ style design.
Just keep looking and you’ll find more and more scenes you remember. Can you recognise them all?
You just don’t see thrillers with good ransom notes these days.
This one (written with an appropriately intimidating tone) is actually a great piece of ‘old school’ cut and paste from UK designer Naf4d
It’s actually interesting to see the variety of fonts on offer in publications these days – Times New Roman was your lot not so long ago.
I especially like how these days you don’t just randomly cut and paste from a black and white newspaper – it’s a little more complicated with modern technology digitally ‘retrofitting’ the technique…
I cut out the letters from magazines and stuck them to a piece of paper; then scanned it in; adjusted the contrast and levels a wee bit and then did a clipping path round the words.
I think it’s great – reminiscent of The Sex Pistols, when ransom notes, were ‘real’ ransom notes!
Muscular Teeth is a prolific T-Designer, mixing hand-drawn art with technical fine detail and illustrative vectors.
This new design is a stand out for me as it really speaks the subject. This little one clearly ‘wants their mummy!!!!’. You can actually ‘feel’ the emotion welling up in the posture – it’s so well observed.
It’s cute, and sad, a great style and unmistakably Muscular Teeth.
Sometimes it’s not all about T-Shirts. When you see some truly awesome work you just have to tell people about it.
Simon Sherry produces fantastic vector art – mostly seen on T-Shirts. His work-in-progress collection of stylised playing cards entitled ‘full deck’ is just amazing.
This particular piece of art is a stand out for me, because it looks stunning even at a distance. As you get closer you realise this is vector art, and you start to think – wow.
You get even closer and then see the real detail of the piece and you realise how truly good this is.
I’m a creative geek living in Melbourne, Australia who writes software by day, and creates T-shirts and other designs by night. This is all of course when time and motivation allows.
It’s probably accurate to say I dabble in things other than software to keep my creative side happy. I was always a keen musician (guitar, drums and keyboards) but am now happy to dream of the ‘greatness’ I never achieved. I may surprise myself yet… I might also get round to finishing my list of gig attendances one day.
I like to take pictures of things that interest me, and am becoming and increasingly keen photographer.
I occasionally write technical articles, produce the odd bit of freeware, and record technical thoughts on my Codebureau blog. Anything left may end up on this blog – but that’s rapidly turning into my world of T-Shirts!
If you’re interested in hiring me for contract development work in the Melbourne, Australia area then take a look at my skills timeline to see if I might be able to fit your needs, then contact me right here.
