I know what you’re thinking “Andy, who I imagine is so ripped The Situation would cry if he were to ever gaze upon your mighty abs, aren’t Turtlehead an advertiser on HYA, and this post makes you a total sellout?” Well imaginary reader who keeps complimenting me, often yes, you could call me a sellout, but in this case you’d be dead wrong, because all the proceeds from the sale of these tees goes to helping Oxfam. Turtlehead have been involved with Oxfam for a long time, which presumably helped them in securing such stellar designers for this charity project. Which designers you may ask? Jon Burgerman, Si Scott, Alex Turvey, Serge Seiditz, and Chris Judge. All the proceeds are going Oxfam Ireland’s Climate Change program. I realise that helping fight climate change by purchasing something you probably don’t really need feels a bit counterintuitive, but at least the shirts are printed onto fairtrade cotton, and if you’re nice and careful washing it then it will last long enough that you won’t have to waste more carbon buying lower quality shirts that don’t last as long.
A month and a bit ago renowned artist Jon Burgerman sent out a tweet that said something along the lines of “send me toffee, and I’ll send you art.” It’s an unusual offer, so I chanced it and sent him an e-mail asking if I could get in on it. As I’m from the Lake District I also asked if he liked fudge, because we know how to make good fudge here. Fortunately, I was one of the first three people to e-mail Jon, meaning that I was on my way to owning my first piece of original art from an artist people have actually heard of (my walls are covered in pretty things, but they’re mostly prints). That same day along with a couple of HYA tee orders I sent off about a kilo of local fudge and toffee. About a month later I got a letter that contained my drawing from Jon along with a Macbook keyboard cover, a poster, and a couple of stickers.
It’s stories like this that make me like the internet.
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It might be because I live in a t-shirt bubble, in which almost every conversation I have comes back to t-shirts or how I’m a tiny bit famous on the internet, but I imagine that designing for a company like 2k By Gingham, with the quality of artists that they have is quite an honour for any artist even if you’re a well-respected artist like Jon Burgerman.
His two tees aren’t
available in their store yet, but should be soon.
Renowned British artist Jon Burgerman (who, by law, has to have the term ‘doodler’ inserted into every post about him) has opened a new webstore called the Burgerplex at which to sell his fine, fine work. There isn’t a tee in sight (yet), but I’m a fan, and it’s my site, so I’m happy to go off-topic for a moment.
Jon Burgerman’s Burgerplex
Here’s the details:
Just to let you know we’ve got a Christmas Bonanza here on Sunday December 7th from 11-6pm where we will also have Lazy Oaf, Peep Show and Garudio Studiage selling prints, jewellery and other gifts as well as mulled wine and special offers on some of our products, as well as a Print sale this coming Thursday December 4th 6-9pm to coincide with the First Thursdays event. We’ll have our entire print collection out of the drawers and up for grabs, with work by Ian Stevenson, Jon Burgerman, Anthony Burrill and lots more.
Please note that this is an instore event, I don’t believe it will be replicated online, especially the part about mulled wine.
Concrete Hermit
