Mesmerizing and Beautiful
I love love LOVE this Letter Flow animation.
Do you know what else are beautiful? Handmade bleach-stenciled The Hedge hoodies.
Dave Zucker and I have had our eye on this project for nearly half a year but never found the time or inspiration to complete it. Around two weeks ago, we realized that our dearest Claire Storck (see below) was leaving for New York City today. As in, she’s already left right now. To commemorate the fantastic, loving house we shared, Dave and I needed to produce before she departed.
Dave had the concept for each letter of ‘hedge’ based on congruent (is that the word I want?) circles at varying heights. I took this concept and added some thematic flair—the leaves and branches you see adorning the letters above. One late night with Illustrator and I had the design you see above, complete with a leafy heart for the left breast. Dave laser-cut the stencils into plastic sheets at work on Monday. We were ready last night, armed with bleach, a cosmetics spritzer, rags for blotting, and plastic bags for masking.
And we produced two perfect hoodies with nary a hitch. Success! I’ll have to take some better (non-iPhone) photographs because the one we have really doesn’t do the piece justice.
These final shots came from a fantastic evening over Memorial Day weekend, when Whit and Claire were visiting from San Francisco. We had purchased (nearly) matching shorts at REI then added to our outfits with 15 minute–$10 limit shirts from Buffalo Exchange, assigned to all participants randomly. What choice did we have but stage a photo shoot with these gorgeous ensembles?
From drew
Commented June 12th, 2008 2:55 pm
To clear up possible confusion, Deirdre is leaving as well, moving to NYC with Claire. And I am just as sad for her departure. But. BUT! She’s not leaving for another month so I get to stave off that goodbye for a bit longer.
From brookr
Commented June 12th, 2008 2:56 pm
Terriffic! Those hoodies are great. I love the design. Thanks for the backstory. And the fashion show. (why does “fashion” need an h? shouldn’t it be “fasion”? screw you spellchecker!)
I think the word you want is ‘tangential’.
Speaking of lovely words, have you seen: http://wordle.net/ ?
wanna get famous? turn that into a WP plugin.
Speaking of tangents, Bye Claire!
(who got the second hoodie?)
From Jack Danger Canty
Commented June 12th, 2008 3:30 pm
Actually Brooke, I’d recommend ‘contiguous.’ (I win!)
That’s a fantastic design Carlos, I love the leaves on it. When I opened my computer and saw it I figured I’d been sent here by some digg titled ‘Amazing t-shirt design’ before I realized this was the blog of somebody I actually knew.
From Shy
Commented June 12th, 2008 4:37 pm
Fuck it, those hoodies are nice, but fuck it, Claire and Deirdre leaving for New York, no confusion, just in Bummer Town on a one-way ticket.