The T-shirts: 1st Draft
After visiting t-shirt suppliers and printers a couple of weeks ago, we went locked ourselves away in deepest darkest Surrey hills and went into overdrive on designing the first collection of t-shirts. It was a 12 hour combination of bacon, stamping, Photoshop, tearing paper, sketching and trying stuff out (check out this post for images and thoughts from the design process).
It was a productive session and we ended the day with about 20 strong designs for shirts which we narrowed down to about 8 or so that, with a little tweaking and art-working, are going to be an awesome first batch of shirts.
We’d love to know what you guys think of them.
(Click the images for a closer view)
‘Tovers’
Based on one of our favourite Tom Overs photographs.
‘Classico’
A pretty simple design that we reckon could become a classic for the brand. Based on a rubber stamp we had made, we’re considering printing this in a range of four seasonal colours.
Tool
The pattern is based on a sketch of the tools used to build trails. As much as we like this one we feel that the illustratio still needs work – any illustrators fancy helping out, give us a shout!
Paper folded to try and recreate the classic diamond shape of a bike frame. Another favourite.
Bridget
T-shirt inspired by the logo, Nic’s love of patterns and Bridget Riley.
Crumpled
A happy accident that just seems to fit with the brand.
A selection of these shirts are going to move forward to form the first collection; the foundation for the brand. Revenue generated from the sale of these shirts will be directed into the R&D of the jacket, driving the company forward and allowing us to create a larger range of products.
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