News: Char­iTee Design

Rock On: Ian Fer­guson (Friends of Design) x Make-A-Wish.

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Shine x Make-A-Wish. Repub­lic of New Zealand.Shine approached the “I Wish…” brief think­ing "wouldn’t it be great if New Zea­l­and was a repub­lic state and then we wouldn’t have to be asso­ci­ated with the House Of Wind­sor, The Com­mon­wealth Games and the Aus­tralian flag." Shine is an Auckland-based ad agency that works across mul­tiple dis­cip­lines for a range of clients.

Shine x Make-A-Wish.

Jonny Kofoed (Okto­ber) x Make-A-Wish."Being a reas­on­ably new dad (with two kids under the age of four) I leapt at the chance to be involved with Make a Wish. As it was for a great char­ity, I approached the brief in a very sales-focused way. 'Shift­ing units' and 'aware­ness' were my man­tras… I guess. The final design I arrived at was a HEMI engine, abstrac­ted and laid out — hint­ing at the ele­ments being your internal organs when you put it on. It hope­fully attracts guys who wish they had a muscle car, but are not allowed one… like me. You love the car, go buy the t-shirt kinda deal."

Jonny Kofoed's HEMI.

Fed­er­a­tion x Make-A-Wish."With the theme 'I Wish' being pretty broad we had a lot of options. but wanted it to be some­thing every­one at the office wished for. Since the design­ing of this print was done right in the middle of the NZ Fash­ion Week chaos a lot of our ideas per­tained to either get­ting more sleep or hav­ing more hours in the day. These felt a bit trivial so we thought big­ger and in the end wished for peace. A bit Miss Amer­ica but it’s true. We’re a peace­ful bunch. As for the design itself we wanted this to be kind of like a little exten­sion of what we’re doing in our col­lec­tion and hav­ing done a hand print series for sum­mer this concept seems to fit per­fectly." –Drew Gregory

Arch Mac­Don­nell (Inhouse Design) x Make-A-Wish. Star­fish tee. "The brief was really open ended, I def­in­itely wanted to veer away from some­thing too pre­dict­able but at the same time wanted the idea to come from an obvi­ous start­ing point. Wish upon a star was the theme I wanted to expand on — many star per­muta­tions were explored; con­stel­la­tions, pris­matic graph­ics, crys­tals etc. I ulti­mately settled on a series of illus­tra­tions from Ernst Haeckel, a Ger­man zoolo­gist from the 1800s. His fant­ast­ical bio­lo­gical draw­ings have always cap­tiv­ated me and this seemed the per­fect can­vas to re-contextualise them. The stars are actu­ally star­fish, hence coin­ing the new phrase 'wish upon a star(fish)' and other assor­ted ech­in­o­derms. I half-tone screened the illus­tra­tions and opted for the clas­sic white on black — a long-serving favour­ite combo of well over the half the tees in my wardrobe."

Inhouse Design x Make-A-Wish.

Ian Fer­guson (Friends of Design) x Make-A-Wish. "I wanted to cre­ate some­thing wear­able for the mar­ket the T shirts are going into. I tried not to get to car­ried away on detail, and com­plex­it­ies. I think sim­pli­city is the key when it comes to a good T-shirt design. My stu­dio is above the rock shop on K rd. So every­day i see guys wear­ing band T's, or gui­tar brand t's. My design was inspired by this & also gui­tar pack­aging that i see thrown out every­day on the street… oh and of course the fact that every guy wants to be a Rock Star! Friends of Design is a boutique design agency based in the heart of AK city. A lot of the work we do is fash­ion industry based. Check out www.friendsofdesign.com to see a sample of our work."

Stu­dio Alex­an­der x Make-A-Wish. "Fash­ion is 80's obsessed at the moment, in the 80's we were obsessed with the Rubik's Cube. I never did it apart from pulling it apart and put­ting it back together again. I wish i could (the world record is 6 seconds)."

What me? Stephen Richard­son x Make-A-Wish. "My approach was essen­tially to dis­reg­ard the brief and the concept of Make a Wish and I decided to cre­ate an image that was in my own per­sonal style. I'm known for draw­ing these japanese/french vin­tage look­ing faces so I thought that would be a good start­ing point for my design. I also thought if the t-shirt image was ran­dom and not dir­ectly asso­ci­ated with a theme or event per se it would have more longev­ity for the buyer."

Otis Frizzell x Make-A-Wish. "I actu­ally star­ted with a much more car­toony design with a Genie lamp i.e. make a wish, genie etc, but then it appeared that there was gonna be a few designs along those lines, so I basic­ally chucked the brief out the win­dow com­pletely and tried to think of some­thing that would hit a nerve with the planned demo­graphic… Which is Me, pretty much. The REAL (if not under­ly­ing) brief, is to raise money for Make-a-Wish so I tried to go for some­thing simple, funky and totally New Zea­l­and… Some­thing I would wear and some­thing that would sell."

Derek Hende­r­son x Make-A-Wish. "there is only one thing we really need and that is LOVE.…"

Cut Col­lect­ive x Make-A-Wish. Tall Pop­pies. “Ain't no Crime to Shine”

Glenn Jones (Glennz) x Make-A-Wish. "Fol­low­ing the brief of 'I wish…' my game con­trol­ler design depicts a few of those bor­ing tasks that I wish could be as fun or as easy as just pay­ing a game." Glenn Jones AKA Glennz is an Auck­land based freel­ance designer and illus­trator cur­rently focused on build­ing his own range of T-shirts at www.glennz.com.

Bro'Town x Make-A-Wish: "bro'Town Designer Ant Sang, together with Fire­horse Films were thrilled to include their bro'Town family's final sea­son image from the show in a T-shirt design, along­side their close per­sonal friend Scribe, in sup­port of the won­der­ful efforts of the Make a Wish campaign."

Designer shots. Top left: Otis Frizzell and Federation's Drew Gregory. Main image, back: Ant Sang, Drew Gregory, Arch McDon­nell, Glenn Jones, Jonny Kofoed, Otis Frizzell, George Gold­sack. Front: Ross Liew, Kaitlyn Neale, Arnie Schwenke, Jack Schwenke and Ian Fer­guson. Mushots: Arch McDon­nell from Inhouse, Richard Unsworth from Stu­dio Alex­an­der, Drew Gregory from Fed­er­a­tion, Jonny Kofoed from Okto­ber, Ross Liew from Cut Col­lect­ive, Ian Fer­guson from Friends of Design, Glenn Jones from Glennz.