Shirts

About Tee Shirts

 

The novelty of a tee shirt provides a unique space for expression and communication.

Roland Barthes called Japan the empire of signs. Surely if he visited today, he would call it the empire of tee shirts. They bear signs of all kinds, in all languages, for both human and computer interpretation.

   

About StaticRooster T-Shirts

These shirts have origin in a northern california garage. Curious about the process of screen printing and tee shirt making, I embarked to create a few tee shirts relevant to Northern California culture. Often printed on used thrift store garments, each of these shirts was one of a kind and presented as a gift to a friend.

One design that remains from these original shirts is the "Pound it" graphic, a gesture that forms an integral part of a Northern California handshake. From there I took an interest in QR codes, the idea that images encoding data can be more efficiently interpreted by computers than by humans. Following this came an interest in the Japanese passion for mobile phones, urban data structures, and tee shirt graphic design. We are currently looking to expand into color prints

An added bonus
10% of the profits from T-Shirt sales go to PlanetRead, a non-profit in India working to improve world literacy. By adding same-language-subtiting to the enormously popular Bollywood film songs that appear on national Indian television, PlanetRead provides automatic reading practice to 300 million people across the subcontinent. Every t-shirt you buy provides reading material for 10,000 early literates. To learn more, visit their website or watch a short documentary about the project.

 

Links and Inspiration

Shift Magazine Factory
Graniph
Commonwealth Stacks
T-Post
2K by Gingham
PingMag

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