Sunday, 8 December 2013

Day 342



I'm sure you can appreciate the gravity of the words I use when I say I have seen some especially unique T-shirt designs this year. Creations of inconceivable wonder have adorned my torso time and time again, and with each one, the irregularity seems to climb up a notch.

However, for Day 342 of my THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE T-shirt challenge, I'm not sure there are any higher notches left upon which to appropriately hang this second donation from Monster Press.
The professional Bath based print works have sent me this garment that they were commissioned to print by brand Funns and... well... look at it.
It is so gloriously bizarre that I'm not quite sure what to make of it. It's unequivocally beautiful, that's for sure. It upholds both the innocence and magnificent absurdity of a child's drawing in equal measure, whilst at the same time managing to convey something sinister and uneasy by exhibiting it so violently on a full-canvas T-shirt print. I know if ever one of my kids would draw a shark wearing a crown trapped inside a large bubble, I'd send them to their room whilst raising their pocket money.

A quick flick through the rest of the Funns online stock reveals that this is actually one of the less concerning examples - some of the designs there are just plain weird - and I would happily wear them all, especially if they've all been brought to reality with the first class print quality achieved by the team at Monster Press.

See more from Monster Press via their Twitter account.

THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE Project

Hi, I’m Andi Best and I’m a regular guy, rising to an irregular challenge.

People tell me I have a lot of T-shirts. These people are not wrong, it’s true, I do.

But one person went as far as to tell me I have so many T-shirts, I could probably wear a different one every day. This is obviously not true, but it got me thinking - what if I could wear a different T-shirt every day? What if I never wore the same T-shirt twice for an entire year?

Challenge accepted

I have created project THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE which, beginning January 1st 2013, will track my pro gress sourcing and wearing a different T-shirt every day for the next 365 days – and I’m going to need your help to do it…

TAKE PART HERE