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Raised by Hippies

I just finished up a t shirt illustration project for an old colleague and good friend Jake Donlen.

Jake is the creative head behind Runamuk Visuals and is doing a lot of really cool stuff for around surfing and skating at the moment. I especially like this short video he made about a surf trip to Mexico via a children’s orphanage.

Rad stuff.

For some reason Jake wasn’t offended by my office antics from back in 06 and he was still keen to work with me. He was keen to get me to create a simple black and white shirt graphic based on a similar style to the goofy drawings of random stuff I used to do and stick up on his wall when we were working together at Billabong.

I was stoked. As well as being an all round legend who has survived heart surgery and a coma, I’ve always respected Jake’s keen eye for film editing and production.

I‘m still surprised he wanted to work with me considering that once after work I mistakenly hopped into his wife’s car thinking it was my wife who had come to pick me up. I still remember the look on her face when I sat down beside her and said “you’re not my wife.”

Funny stuff.

So this is a crop of the artwork created for Runamuk Visuals. I’m hoping to work together with Jake in the future on some logo designs.

This piece was lots of fun and I’m stoked on how Jake’s idea has turned out… looking forward to wearing it.

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Mass Canvas T Shirt Design Comp

Mass Canvas are running a threadless and design by humans style creative t shirt design comp. The prize is a sweet $1000. Metagraphics entered the first prize round for the competition which was based on the theme “Mass Canvas”… and WON!

Here’s the winning entry. Cool hey!

MASScanvas makes me think of Andy Warhol and his pop artwork, which played on the ideas of Mass Production and its effect on society. I have created a Warhol-esque screen print that plays on this influence. Warhol was famous for his a association with beauty, and nothing is more beautiful to me than a bird

The idea and how it all works i similar to threadless and design by humans. They also contribute a percentage of profit to a charity, PS Arts, Dedicated to improving the lives of children by bringing arts education to underserved public schools and their communities.

So out of gratitude for Mass Canvas throwing money at me I thought I would give them a plug and show you my winning entry. The shirt I designed was composited together from a series of drawings and illustrations of Crows I had produced earlier.

I always enjoy shirt design. If your interested check out some more t shirt illustration work that I have done.

Also, if you’re keen to have a look at the design comp and enter, you should do it before word gets out and the competition gets crazy.

Also if you want to buy some new threads then head over and check out Mass Canvas’ shop and buy a cool shirt!