Final Designs

Psalms 133

1 Corinthians 9: 24

Joshua 1:9

These are my final designs as I am going to attempt to print 9 white shirts and print with 2 colours (Black and Red) and hopefully the result will end up just like the designs. each of these shirts will be different sizes so in other words i will have 1 design for 3 different sized shirts.

Example:

1 DESIGN = 3 SHIRTS

AIGA STRONG: 6XL, 3XL, L

SIAMUPINI: 5XL, 2XL, M

FA'AMALOSI: 4XL, XL, S

Artist Research - Taga Tanuvasa - Tanuvasa Designs

Tanuvasa Designs

Taga Tanuvasa - T-Shirt Printer

Bible

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Swag

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These are just a few T shirts of Taga Tanuvasa who is also a good friend of mine and who first taught me how to print on shirts. His work has inspired me to make t shirts such as these and is also similar to the concept of my work. So for my final project I have decided to use 3 colours which are White. Black, and Red so i am going to do 9 white shirts and print Black and Red on all shirts. 

Research - Presentation

I went to the Otara Flea Markets and saw a few shops and how they presented their shirts. So what I did was i took photos of all the stalls that were in the Otara Markets.

This helps me with how i am going to install my work and so far it has given me ideas on how to present my shirts. 

For my Final presentation I am going to present my work as if i was selling my shirts in the Markets as shown in these photos

Artist Research - Bulky Boy

Bulky Boy

Burger Boy

 Samoa

Americana

Bulky Boy is a clothing company created in 2000 which is based in San Diego, California and they design, print, and sell clothes for men who live large. they make a lot of designs with Hawaiian, Samoan, Tongan, and all other pacific nation patterning or designs. 

I find this cool because not only the designs are cool but i like the way how they added their logo in their design which i find helpful with my designs and which also signifies who made the prints and designs which will attract people to get them to buy one of your products which i find very useful.

Artist Research - Sam's Island Gear

Sam's Island Gear

Fobzilla

Coz Datz How We Roll Island Stylez

iFob

Sam's Island Gear is a T shirt printing company in which they design, print, and sell South Pacific/Polynesian T-shirts as you can see some of the designs that i have selected as my favourite designs from this company. They are based in Glen Eden and Grey Lynn in Auckland, New Zealand. 

This will help me with designing and printing t shirts and will also help me with ideas whereas this is what i want to do for my final project. I have also seen their T-shirts being sold at the Otara Flea Market and whenever i have the chance to go there the first place i will go to is Sam's Island Gear.

My Presentation

My Presentation

ARTIST RESEARCH - Popo Hardwear

Popo Hardwear

Up top is the website or artists that I have researched on t shirt designs.

POPO stands for People Of the Pacific Ocean and the artists are Siliga David Setoga, Malisha Luisa Lefao-Setoga, and Stephen Isaac Paea. Popo Hardwear focuses on Pacific Island Kiwis that speaks about who we are as Pacific Islanders living in a different countries, and it is also about challenging the way they are perceived and fighting over societal cliches.

I chose to research these artists because this is going to help me with my project which is screen printing T-Shirts and this also helps me to come up with ideas such as these images. This is also the type of designs i want to do to relate to the Samoan Community.

These images below are the images that stood out to me and is going to help or assist me with ideas on what to design.

Coconuts - Harder Than The Real Thing

Drunkin Coconut

Fob - Have You Ridden One Lately