T-SHIRTISM

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. From jetset.nl