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Will Kirby · March 2, 2010

Basically saw this on another forum...

Anyway football related graphic designer mate of mine has designed these T's for the summer, Hes a Spurs fan but will be doing other teams with Liverpool/England 66 and XII next and then more teams... he said if anyone wants a shirt doing for an obscure team like Bury FC then if he gets 10+ orders he can do them:

http://www.gradiate.co.uk/

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Matt_1 · March 2, 2010

Would be wee wee easy to make.

A bit of a rip off of a shirt I have got, the style isn't uncommon at all.

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jamsandwich · March 2, 2010

T-Shirtism

October 2005

Homages, tributes, parodies

In 2001, we designed \\\'John & Paul & Ringo & George\\\', a t-shirt for Japanese label 2K/Gingham. To see images of that shirt, and to read about the idea behind it, please first go to the chapter elsewhere on this site, named \\\'John & Paul & Ringo & George\\\' and filed under 2001. Click here to get there.

A couple of years after we designed the shirt, we noticed something interesting: people started sending us images of self-produced shirts that were referring to our shirt, either as homage, tribute or as parody. These images were floating around in our mailboxes and attachment-folders, until, in 2005, Karen Willey, then student at the Werkplaats Typografie, asked us to use these images for a chapter in \\\'Dutch Resource\\\' (Valiz Publishers, 2005), a book published on the occasion of the Chaumont Poster Festival. Around that time, we also posted some of these images on our website.

Since then, we received literally hundreds and hundreds of these images. Honestly, not a week goes by without a couple of these images being sent to us. We know of foreign students that have built complete graduation projects around the shirt, and publications and exhibitions showing all kinds of variations.

We have been often wondering why our shirt became such a popular subject. Our way of designing is actually quite closed and hermetic: we never think in terms of target audiences, we never try to guess what will be popular or not. We just concentrate on the aesthetical/conceptual integrity of the design itself, and we always try to fully focus on the inner-logic of the designed object. The phrase \\\"but does it communicate?\\\" is used in our studio only as a joke. So it\\\'s really interesting to see that such a dry, minimal design can suddenly become a big hit. It\\\'s amazing to see that the \\\'John & Paul & Ringo & George\\\' shirt has become a format, a standard, for other people to work with. (To us, it proves an important point: that a popular design doesn\\\'t have to be made with populist intentions).

Shown below, a small selection of these images. Just for all clarity, we didn\\\'t design these items; these are items designed by others, based on an original design by us.

In many cases, we received these images without any additional information (such as credits, copyrights, etc.). So, in an attempt to treat all images equally, we decided to show ALL these images without any captions. The person interested in the source behind a particular shirt will (without any doubt) be able to trace the shirt via internet.

If you are the creator of one of the items shown below, and you feel that your image is used in an unjust way, let us know, and we will remove the image immediately.

(On the previous version of this website, this section also included photographs of B-list celebrities wearing the original \\\'John & Paul & Ringo & George\\\' shirt, and also some parodies/homages of the \\\'Anti\\\' shirt that we designed in 2000. However, we decided to drop these items, in favour of showing more \\\'John & Paul & Ringo & George\\\' variations).

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