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The Tâ€"shirt may be the most ubiquitous, affordable, and popular item of clothing. Over the years it has served as a means to broadcast social, musical and political affiliations. Most recently, the Tâ€"shirt has become a creative tool for expressing inventive design.
The Tâ€"shirt designs in this book have been selected by Beams T, a hugely popular fashion retail chain and manufacturer in Japan devoted to Tâ€"shirts. Founded in 1986, Beams T regards the Tâ€"shirt as a canvas for new ideas in art and design and each year of their 20â€"year history, has invited artists from around the world to create designs for their Tâ€"shirts.
In this book, 350 of the best of these Tâ€"shirt design! s are featured in full color.
Accompanying the book will be a CD ROM of flash animation which will allow readers to create their own tâ€"shirts. There will be brand new work, created especially for this CD ROM, by 10 Japanese artists including Tsuyoshi Kusano, Tsuyoshi Hirooka, Kiyoshi Kuroda, Kenjiro Harigai, and Tomoki Kurokawa. The artwork included will be the actual size, enabling the reader to print their favorite artwork on their own tâ€"shirts. The artists selected are some of the most renowned graphic designers/ illustrators in Japan and are regular collaborators of Beams T.
Tâ€"SHIRT FACTORY will include an index with a photo and bio of each author.
Perhaps the ultimate icon of this generation, the T-shirt originated from tea and shirts. The history claims that seventeenth-century workers downloading tea boxes from boats in the harbor of Annapolis in the US wore a kind of short sleeve shirt that was eventually named the T-shirt in reference t! o the tea as well as form of the shirt, which resembled the le! tter "T: . By the 1920s, the word T-shirt appeared in official U.S. dictionaries. Over time, what was originally just a form of warm-weather work clothing has evolved and developed a life of its own. The T-shirt, in its simplist form, makes a statement about the wearer. Whether political, artistic, or humorous, a T-shirt displays a message that reflects the ideals of the wearer. T-shirts are one of the world?s most prolific forms of graphic message and personal statement, both commercial and personal. This collection looks at the T-shirt and its many forms. The chapters include The Legend of the T-shirt, Power of an Idol, Duplication of Art, Declaration, Mobile Posters, Simple and Fashionable, Design Element, and Technique. Altogether, this volume provides an immense catalog of 500 designs for inspiration and enjoyment for designers, crafters, and T-shirt enthusiasts.
This book is about decorative apparel printing by digital press. The $22-billion garment printing business is go! ing through a rapid change thanks to the exciting new digital technology. The authors give a comprehensive overview of the industry's past, present and future, and explain how to adopt the new technology and profit from it. Garment decorators and entrepreneurs alike will benefit enormously by taking advantage of the new digital printers, a.k.a. T-shirt Printers.
The authors are twenty-year veterans of the industry and experts in inkjet technology. They introduced the digital revolution to the sign and screen printing industry nearly a quarter-century ago. Now they are leading the way in digitally transforming the apparel textile printing process. This book is a comprehensive and indispensable reference guide for anyone considering digital garment decoration.
