Topshop Designer T-shirts

Newgen 10
Limited Addition t-shirts
20 past Newgen Designers

Every year Topshop tends to do a range of designer T-shirts by the hottest most up and coming designers of the moment. I am always really excited to see what they come up with. A Tshirt design is quite simple so the print is massively important. The three examples below were my favourite from the collection, this being down to the print but also the type of material used. Louise Gray has used a silk material which I feel directs the collection towards the higher end of the market, the same market and audience I am aiming for in my brief. 

Digital Print

I have been experimenting with my motifs and colour palette in photoshop. I have tried to keep with the idea of the digital montage and the defacing theme. I think the colours work well. The brightness of the orange against the deep greens. I like the contrast of the colours so I am going to try and carry that throughout the rest of my work.

Final Colour Palette

After hours of stress and frustration I finally found a colour palette I liked and one that worked well with my motifs. The combination of the dark greens and red together work well to create a rich and vibrant palette. 

Defacing Ideas and graffiti

A few experimental drawings using graffiti and the idea of defacing on top of my original drawings. I wanted to add a splash of colour  to bring them to life.

Prabal Gurung Designer T-shirts

Prabal Gurung alongside creating collections for fashion week has produced a range of high end designer t-shirts, Some of which have the prints from his catwalk collections. I aim to create a range of t-shirts with the same idea. Maintaining the quality and trends of the catwalk. 

Burton Machen x Obey Tshirts

Collaboration

In 2010 Burton Machen collaborated with obey, his defaced images were placed on a range of Tshirts, it is interesting to see how his images transferred to fabric and translated onto something wearable. The images speak for themselves so the simplistic placing of them work well . 

Burton Machen

Urban Evolution 
Portraits Project

Burton Machen took a series of photographs of famous and political people and placed them on the streets of New York and saw how they would evolve over time by factors such as graffiti and weathering. I am going to deface some of my images and drawings , Burton Machen project Urban evolution was good to look at as it was interesting what graffiti ideas people came up with that I could use to feed into my own work.