The inspiration for this design came from an odd place, the optician. They do this thing with overlapping dots when they test your eyes and it made quite an impression, literally. Here I've created the illusion of an indigo denim ground but it's printed onto 100% lightweight cotton for more tricks of the eye.
Ah yes, the Fiat 500 "Cinquecento". You either love it or - you love it, no exceptions. With a 0-60MPH time of, infinity, because it couldn't get to 60 (excepting Abarth variants), what it lacks in raw power it certainly makes up for in style. An ingenious and beautiful 'car for the people', which I have paid tribute to here in this striking shirt using original halftone publicity material and retro glam.
The inspiration for this design came from an odd place, the optician. They do this thing with overlapping dots when they test your eyes and it made quite an impression, literally. Here I've created the impression of a brushed cotton ground but it's printed onto 100% lightweight cotton for more tricks of the eye.
This shirt plunges into the wonderful world of 1960s' ice cream signs - 'it's a 99!' These marvellous things were printed onto metal and displayed in shops or on outside walls. I love the vivid, but slightly earthy colours, so typical of the time. Also some of them are a little 'distressed' at the edges where the weather has gotten in. But it really only adds to their charm. A number of vintage designs are featured from Walls, Pendleton's - ‘What could be nicer than a Pendleton’s Twicer', and Nestlé. It's bright, it's breezy, it's colourful, it's, well, fab! />