I love simple and effective – oh and if you combine it with industrial ‘stuff’, then further bonus points.
Natalie Tyler’s got a great eye for typography and shows it here with a really cool homage to the poor unloved electricity pylon.
Study the letters for a moment…
Just don’t try and climb them to get your kite back (like the ‘scare’ films they used to show in schools in the seventies)
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?
A Reel to reel tape deck isn’t something that most kids would even recognise these days.
Most have grown up in an age where the ‘compact’ cassette tape was outdated.
So, to provide a retro history lesson I present the ‘Reel Vintage Tape Deck’, a vector design complete with knobs and switches you have to actually ‘move’ in order to get things to happen. If you can work this baby without getting wrapped up like a mummy you’re doing well.
The tape counter’s permanently stuck on 1974, which is coincidentally when this ‘vintage’ model is from.
This tee design also placed second in a music challenge in the Redbubble Retro Tees group.
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!
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.
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was a revolution for a lot of 80’s kids, and this shirt harks back to those days when programs were something you copied out of a magazine or loaded from a cassette tape.
Say Hello Spectrum World
A new design for a new challenge.
This one’s all about sound. My own Doctor Marten boot features here.
It’s caught at the moment ‘just before’ all hell breaks loose…
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.
