Tag Archive for 'design'

These lovely patterns from Vogelwerk

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by
Markus
on October 17, 2008
in art, industry and t-shirts
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Hallo Leute, it’s se German correspondent again wiss more noos from Sauerkraut country.

It’s been a month now that the e-shop of vogelwerk.net has gone online. I discovered this brand at a festival and fell in love with these designs immediately. Its name can be roughly translated as “bird’s work” or “bird plant” or “bird company” or however you like it. Their collection consists of cleverly built monochrome patterns, such as “Faces” (left pic) whose overall impression is achieved by lining up little face drawings that are differently drawn. They are available on different shirt colors: purple, asphalt, heather grey, grass, raspberry … The white prints are made “by using a special bleaching color that extracts the color from the textile. The result is a permanent print that is not distinguishable from the surface structure of the textile itself.” The black prints are also barely noticeable, so if you don’t like the feeling of thick rubber layers on your chest, this might be something for you. They do not only have T-shirts, there’s also hoodies, long sleeves and jackets.

Johnny Cupcakes Reveals the Secrets to His Indie T-Shirt Company’s Success!

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by
Joe
on June 7, 2008
in industry and t-shirts
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Johnny Cupcakes himself just posted a whole spiel on Emptees! I haven’t even finished reading it, but I was so excited that I wanted to post about it here so everybody can know! Here’s a teaser of the very beginning of his relatively lengthy but definitely worthwhile piece:

I’m not the best at photoshop/illustrator. However, I am a doodle master and I barely sleep because I think about ideas, designs, details & concepts non stop.

My office and bedroom are filled to the brim with sticky notes, notebooks and computer paper that I’ve baptized with my brain juice/9 yr old boy who just watched nickelodeon’s SNICK-esq imaginative drawing stylee.

Since I juggle a little bit of everything in my brand & have borderline A.D.D. - I almost always send out my doodles, drawings, and/or concepts & ideas to my adobe illustrator mastermind(s).

Continue reading the full entry by Johnny Cupcakes on how he runs his business!

EDIT: Now that I’ve finished reading, I think I can sum up his major points in one word: exclusivity. But really, read the whole thing, because it’s worth it.