My Chosen Topic

My Chosen Topic


For my project, I'm looking at t-shirt designs and designing t-shirts for bands. I will take pictures of existing t-shirts which I can use on my website and then take the designs that I already have and try and find inspiration in them. I will also design logos for t-shirts, as well as band art, and once I have my designs I'll put my primary images onto my website.

I've been looking at band t-shirt websites to inspire me for my own website. I like this website because the layout is really simple and it tells you all the information you need to know about purchase and other details. The designs are really complex yet nice, they have a lot of modern designs for old bands which is what i'd like to do. ------>

• http://store.amplifiedclothing.com/index.php

Another website I looked at is 'Electric T-shirts'. I didn't like this website as much because the layout is a bit all over the place, there's too many fonts and colours and also they don't show a lot of their merchandise on the homepage, so it fails draw you in as much. ------>

• http://www.electrictshirts.co.uk

Inspiration
I've been looking at different band logos from all different eras and their designers to inspire me for my own work.

I started researching who designed a few of my favourite logos. The first designer I looked at is called Ivor Arbiter, he designed the famous "drop-T" logo for The Beatles, which started out on Ringo Starr's drum kit and then became registered as a Trademark by Apple Corps in the 1990's. I love this logo as it's so simple, but when you see this font, you instantly think of Ringo Starr's drum kit in the 60's.

I then looked at another designer called  John Pasche who designed the logo for The Rolling Stones. It was a cartoon-style huge pair of lips and the designer said he was influenced by Mick Jagger's appearance. The design of the lips was simple yet very effective. I think that most people would know that logo if you showed it to them. It also became very popular in this generation as a print on a t-shirt, a lot of places like H&M made their own designs of this t-shirt and people bought it solely for the design, not because they were a fan of or even knew who The Rolling Stones were.