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Spreadshirt were kind enough to send over a copy of the book they put together along with Zeixs for the posts that I wrote about the recent International T-Shirt Day activities (peep some pics of the Berlin festivities here). Since I’ve got a fairly decent collection of t-shirt related books now I thought it might be cool for me to give them reviews just like I do with the tees.
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When I first heard about this book I thought that it was going to be a how-to guide about t-shirt design, teaching people who were new to the industry about what makes a design ‘good’. As I discovered, this wasn’t the case at all, so I guess you could say that the title is a little bit misleading, but if you spend just a few seconds reading the description its pretty clear that this book isn’t about helping new designers, its about showcasing the best designs that have been submitted to Spreadshirt.
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It’s a fairly weighty slab of dead tree, it’s diminutive page sizes being more than made up by the fact that there are 670 pages for your perusal. In terms of content, things are kept simple, the opening few pages are what you’d expect from a book about t-shirts, a bit of text about how tees are so prevalent in society now, and now that came to be that way. Once you’ve got the text out of the way we get down to the real meat of the book, the tees. Each page is dedicated to a t-shirt design, sometimes placed onto a t-shirt, sometimes just the artwork, and there’s also the name, location and website of the artist to make sure that you can get hold of the design if you really want it. The book is split into categories (logos, typographic, characters, illustrative, political & pattern) which I guess would be useful if you’re a designer trying to get some inspiration for a project, as long as you keep it at just inspiration, of course!
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There’s some really great designs in the book, I’d love to rip out all the pages and stick them on my wall as a massive collage, but there just seems to be something wrong about ripping the pages out of a book that you actually like.
Costiness=€19.95 Buy It Here
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I think you should send one to everyone who reads your blog
One page? Cos even then I’d need to get another book (or two, I don’t know, RSS subscribers are hard to quantify without feedburner).
one whole book!
In that case, I think you might be over-estimating just how much I earn from the banner ads!
I would love to give more stuff away though, I’m going to have to start asking more companies to team up for giveaways.
The book`s pretty cool, there a lots of designs that are really awesome.
We got two in there “LOVE HURTS” and “RIGHT HAND”. Congrats to all the other designers who are in.
Yeah, I really like the book.
That tee give away email thing was awesome, everyone loves the shirt I got.
To correct the article: its not a showcase of best shirts sent to spreadshirt. We got two designs in there which are not released thru Spreadshirt at all. I guess many more are not.
Anyway, its still a really nice compilation of cool shirt designs! Congrats to everyone that contributet to this.
Peace,
Pop Vulture Tshirt
where can you get this book?
Try clicking the ‘buy it here’ link Bil, you can order it from the publisher. I’ve seen it in a few shops but not available anywhere else online.