T-Shirt Factory
T-Shirt Factory by BEAMS T, published by Harper Collins on January 30, 2007, is a visually engaging exploration of the T-shirt as a medium for artistic expression. This edition features 176 pages in English and showcases a selection of 350 T-shirt designs curated by Beams T, a prominent fashion retail chain in Japan. The book highlights the T-shirt’s evolution from a simple garment to a canvas for innovative design, reflecting various social, musical, and political affiliations.
Readers will discover a vibrant collection of full-color designs, accompanied by a CD ROM that allows them to create their own T-shirts using original artwork from ten renowned Japanese artists. This interactive element enhances the experience, enabling readers to print designs at actual size. The book also includes an index with photos and biographies of each contributing artist, providing insight into their creative backgrounds. With its focus on design, fashion, and popular culture, T-Shirt Factory serves as both a visual feast and a resource for those interested in the intersection of art and apparel.
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The T–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 T–shirt has become a creative tool for expressing inventive design.
The T–shirt designs in this book have been selected by Beams T, a hugely popular fashion retail chain and manufacturer in Japan devoted to T–shirts. Founded in 1986, Beams T regards the T–shirt as a canvas for new ideas in art and design and each year of their 20–year history, has invited artists from around the world to create designs for their T–shirts.
In this book, 350 of the best of these T–shirt designs are featured in full color.
Accompanying the book will be a CD ROM of flash animation which will allow readers to create their own t–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 t–shirts. The artists selected are some of the most renowned graphic designers/ illustrators in Japan and are regular collaborators of Beams T.
T–SHIRT FACTORY will include an index with a photo and bio of each author.
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