2015
Enjoy Choke
Here’s a t-shirt I’ve been meaning to make for ages. “ENJOY CHOKE”. My concept drawing for this shirt is on one of the very fist pages in my sketchbook that I’ve had going for over a year now.
(Above: t-shirt still stretched on the spraying board)
After I stretch the fabric over this board, it essentially is the same process as doing stencils on paper. You just have to be very careful with registration
(Above: me trying on the new shirt)
(Above: concept in my sketchbook)
This design is just intended to make people think twice and look twice when they see it. I think it’s rather clever and I also don’t like coke so it’s perfect.
Münchenbryggeriet
Completed this project a few weeks ago after working on it for quite a while. It’s a screen print in three layers, the brown tones of the rock I created by layering the red layer over the green, and thinning the red to about 50% opacity.
The image comes from this photo I took last year while I was in Stockholm, Sweden. The name of the piece is the name of the factory compound you can see in the background, “Münchenbryggeriet” carved in the black stone marker on the right side. We asked a local what the factory was used for and were told it was historically a brick factory. However, I wanted to double-check so I researched that factory, one of the most iconic buildings in Stockholm, and found out that it actually meant “Munich Brewery”.
A Munich-based brewing company named The Munich Brewing Company expanded and opened this new location in Stockholm in 1857. The factory continued to produce beer until 1971. Since then it has been used as an event/conference center.
Austin Overmoe 