20three prototype t-shirts

Owen — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:17:11 +0000

When 20three had it’s first incarnation around 2000 we produced a short run of t-shirts that we mainly gave away to friends and clients. Now that this site lives on in blog format I thought it would be a good idea to resurrect some of our old design work and produce a couple of prototype t-shirts. I didn’t want to create ‘new’ designs – rather I wanted to give some of our old design & illustration work another lease of life. A bit like this website. Rinse the past.

These shirts were printed at a Brighton copy shop using heat transfers – not the greatest quality but good enough to get an idea of how the shirts could look.

This design I originally produced for the cover of a 12″ record sleeve for Hermetech Records around 2002. As the 12″ cover was intended to be screen printed by hand the design was a simple two colour job – perfect for a t-shirt. The two images I ripped off appropriated for the design came from this book: Animals 1,419 Copyright Free Illustrations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, Insects, etc (Great title).

T shirt design based on Hermetech 12" sleeves.

The Original design:

Hermetech 12" covers, 2002

This second design was created from collages made from the ‘positives’ we used for our first hand-screenprinted t-shirt run – so I am effectively mashing up the original t shirt designs to produce this one.

T shirt design based on collages

Original design/collage:

Sketchbook collage, 2002

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen-printing

To Be Adored – fashion collection by Binbin McNiven

Owen — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:51:00 +0000

I recently helped out with designing a logotype for tba or To Be Adored. tba is the collection of Binbin McNiven, graduate of Brighton university and ex assistant to Alexander McQueen. I supplied a few alternatives and the chosen logotype used Carousel which middle class types can recognise as the face used for the Observer Magazine’s titles and headings. Carousel also has amazing numerals which I have used on another project that I am sure will appear on this site soon.

I really like Binbin’s collection – the sixties shapes & silhouettes are beautiful and her colour choices are right up my street, navy blues and lots of warm autumnal colours – mustard yellow makes an appearance, and I love a bit of mustard yellow.

Here are a couple of lifestyle shots from tba’s spring/summer collection, shot at Brighton’s hotel Pelirocco. Check out the links below for more info on the new tba collection.

tba

http://www.ilovetba.co.uk/

Also stocked at Urban Outfitters

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20three prototype t-shirts

To Be Adored – fashion collection by Binbin McNiven