Glamour Kills - Killer Tees
July 14, 2008
I stumbled across this crazy clothing store at BigCartel.com last night but I was too whacked to write about it, yes I’m an insomniac but even I have my limits. Glamour Kills design and sell all kinds of items, in fact their site seems to be a real hive of activity, truly a barmy army of fans out there for GK, but I’ll concentrate on their tees, as you’d expect.
Firstly what hits me is the sheer size of their prints, every design near enough smothers the whole front of everyone of their tees from neck to waist, and every colour as crisp and full as I would ever hope to see. This is what I’d class as an independent art tee label, they truly do live up to the title, sometimes their work leaves me a little confused, but I doubt there’s supposed to be much of a message behind their work as the fact that they relish fashion and style and project that passion through their clothing label.
Better Believe It is any sci-fi buff’s dream tee, a great deal of work obviously went into this t-shirt, I love the all-over printing, and the sentiment rings true, for all those who’d like to believe but don’t have the evidence!
The T-Shirt Review That Never Was
June 23, 2008
Okay this is probably way off social protocol and breaks the boundaries of Net Etiquette by a few feet (or miles), but I will be keeping the t-shirt store and designer in question anonymous because I want to share this rejection e-mail with you. Why anonymous? Because the guy has talent, and it needs time to grow, and getting his site ranked for “t-shirt criticism” isn’t going to help. Why share? We can all learn a thing or two from design critique - positive and negative alike.
This is a transcript of an email I’ve just sent to a t-shirt designer who I can tell has tyalent, seems a really nice guy, has a pretty decent store, a wide collection of t-shirts, and a unique style, but I’ve refused to review him at this stage. I think, I hope, he will understand my position (fingers crossed).
I’m not here to slate any designer, no matter what level of skill I always appreciate an individual that wishes to express them self through art, and especially t-shirt design. (I’ll have to post a thesis on the validity of t-shirt design as art form and medium one day - till then I’l just keep reviewing them). Read more
Paperwork T-Shirt by Paul Baines
June 20, 2008
Yes, yes, I’m submitting to DesignByHumans.com again, no I’m not a glutton for punishment, I know I’ll probably get very few votes, but who cares, it’s all good. Matt from DBH support has put my mind at rest, (see the last post), and be assured I will keep pressing them to improve the comments system. However we’re both here, and for one thing, and that’s t-shirts.
The latest submission to Design By Humans, it’s called Paperwork and I believe its pretty much self-explanatory. It features a two characters wrapped in newspaper, one sweeps the road, the other is homless, the two share a moment under a sky-filled faux-water colour ticker-tape parade. I could push the whole eco argument again, but in all honesty this is more an exercise in the pointlessness of life than ecology. To be more accurate, the pointlessness of many of today’s society’s mechanisms of control, order and general management. Those who have little clear up those who have most, those who have nothing are cleared out of sight, and those with everything can’t see the trees for the paper.
{Has been accepted by DBH - VOTE FOR PAPERWORK HERE!} Read more
DesignByHumans.com - Complaint Received and Dealt With Thanks!
June 20, 2008
I woke up today and was most gratified to receive an email from Matt of DesignByHumans.com
“First off, I apologize for the negative encounter you had with one of the members of the community. We try our best to promote a positive atmosphere here at DBH but sometimes there are those who choose to spoil the fun for everyone. We have since deleted ********* comments on your design as well as on some other artist’s designs. Thanks for calling our attention to this.”
Amsterdamned @ DesignByHumans.com
June 15, 2008
I have finally had my Eggheads T-Shirt submission accepted at DesignByHumans.com - if you’d like to show some support come and vote for it here.
I had a very friendly exchange of emails with Taylor at DBH who reassured me that my style suited their site’s creative ethos to a tee, essentially the mistake I had made was nothing to do with the quality of my work but rather the placement of the images on their t-shirt template. My advice is the less coverage a design has over the spread of a shirt, the higher you should mount it. I notched my design up a few inches towards the armpits and resubmitted the design with a resounding success. I’ve even completed a second design - see the image below! Read more
