Mini-episode this go-round. I've just received the three latest additions to my direct-to-garment printing project and it seemed as good a time as any for an update.
The graphic tee is a mainstay of fashion that just never seems to go away. There are to this day a number of quality websites specializing in cult graphic tees. But what could possibly be more hip than designing and printing your own graphics in tribute to your favorite musical icons?
I confess, I was apprehensive at first about reintroducing graphic tees into my wardrobe. I'd been wearing disco attire for years and I feared that I might lose credibility in a simple tee. Then I re-read that sentence and realized how absolutely absurd I was being and promptly went to work designing new iconic graphics with which to adorn myself.
Below is my black-band-tee paraphernalia at present.
Key for the Plebeians (from top left)
Cluster & Eno - s/t (1977)
Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk (1967)
The KLF - The White Room stencil (1991)
Analog Modular Synthesizer graphic
UML-type flow chart of synth operation
Moondog - s/t (1969)
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman by the Tomato art collective (1994)
Brian Eno - Before and After Science (1977)
Klaus Schulze portrait
Lemon Jelly logotype by the Airside art collective
High-Res for Fanatics and Fetishists
There is one additional tee missing - Godspeed You! Black Emperor's Faulty Schematic of Ruined Machine [to scale]. The graphic is a hand-drawn illustration which accompanied my copy of their fantastically dark F# A# ∞ LP. The shirt is currently framed in my listening room.
I've also a bank of yet-to-print tees for whenever the mood strikes. A few examples:
...and many others, with more on the way. I'm also considering a Silver Apples print, a NEU! logo, Faust's So Far, Terry Riley, White Noise, a single-color print of BoC's Music Has the Right to Children, and other freaks of the industry.
And if you've any design ideas to contribute, I'd love to hear 'em!