Day 88

It's Day 88 of my 36t5 challenge and the Easter bank holiday is upon us. Get over here you great big Eastery Jesusy time off, you!

Normally I spend my Easter weekend on a long break somewhere with trees and oxygen, but due to this year's relocation of Iceland's climate to our country, I'll most likely be spending this one bloated on chocolate, holed up in London, surrounded by panoramic views of frozen suburbia.

With that in mind, I've kicked off the holiday with this Bench design - another brilliant example of illustrated architecture mistreated and remixed by the rhetoric of reckless youth culture. The screen printed design begins with a backdrop of grey deregistered tower blocks, upon which sits a 3D extrusion of the Bench logo complete with wireframe layering. Behind and around the logo, electric blue colouring has sought to fill the wireframe grid, but has carelessly dripped and exploded from the perimeters, causing the kind of mess that only a trendy tear-away could appreciate.

Inside the tee, at the back of the head-hole where the label is stitched (I like to call this area the 'hanger portal', on account of the hanger's hollow triangle shape creating a little view port into the head hole whilst hanging on a display rail, and I will continue to call it this until it is accepted as mainstream terminology) has become a prime area of real estate for T-shirt design in recent years, hosting an impressive array of intricate details and illustrations that the world will never see after the point of purchase. Curiously, the hanger portal of today's tee is lined with a fine white mesh netting, presumably to entrap the label should it try to go out after curfew to tag people's property.

This T-shirt was given to me as birthday gift a couple of years ago after I saw it once online and went on and on about it, proving it pays to be a petulant child.