posted on May 3rd, 2010 by Tobias in Design, SEEN
Gabe, the graphical mind behind seen., launched his new portfolio website today. It’s an overview of the work he has done in the fields of graphic design, illustration, and photography recently.
Besides his designs for our latest Spring/Summer 2010 T-shirt collection, I especially like the layouts and illustrations he did for GQ magazine, and the brandnew Ward 21 tour artwork.
Check www.gabedesigns.com for more and don’t hesitate to link him in case you need anything to look really good.
posted on April 5th, 2010 by Tobias in Article, Design
From the archives of Deadly Dragon Sound comes this gem of a piece on Bob Marley’s and The Wailers’ tour published by Swing magazine, Jamaica, way back in 1975:
We left Canada and went to Boston. Sold out. We went to Chicago fo two shows; Detroit and Cleveland. All sold out. Some smaller shows, like Connecticut – sold out.
Read the rest of the article and enjoy some nice nice photography and ads in addition over at the Deadly Dragon blog. Part II to follow.
posted on March 27th, 2010 by Tobias in Design, SEEN
On we go with presenting the tees from our Spring 2010 Collection.
Today, we like to introduce to you »Venom«, Gabe’s Marvel-esque in-your-face take on the superhero qualities of Jamaican Dancehall deejay Mad Cobra.
This shirt has already found prominent fans like DJ Beware, Schlachthofbronx, and Ronny Trettmann.
PS: The latter just dropped the »LPB« remix with a little help from our friends SoulForce – the tune that will most definitely rule German dancehalls in the spring weeks and months to come. Check check:
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Download Ronny Trettmann – »LPB« (Soulforce RMX)
posted on March 24th, 2010 by Tobias in Design, SEEN
I’d like to use today’s shirt promo for sending out the best birthday wishes to Anna Love (Broken Teeth Crew, Texas) who currently resides in Berlin.
New kicks, new friends, ice cream paint job on my nails (literally), an amazing boyfriend, I LIVE IN EUROPE!!!, a healthy family, and righteous manifestations. Oh life, you are so sweet!
That’s exactly the days we designed »Life Sweet« for.
PS: Need a soundtrack for making your life more sweet? Get hold of at least one of the following mixes:
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Download The Heatwave – 25 Years of Dancehall
Download Rattus and Klose – Snowbombing 2010
Download DJ OneDrop – What Do You Call It? Vol. 4
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posted on March 23rd, 2010 by Tobias in Design, SEEN
I’m continuing our one-week series of shameless self-promotion talking about another T-shirt design out of the seen. Spring 2010 Collection today: »Mans of Mans«.
For that design, Gabe picked a non-representative cross-section of Jamaica’s noble society and turned it into a set of nine cartoon characters. From the upper left to the bottom right we got: Rastaman, Gunman, Bigman, White Man, Yellow Man, Madman, Badman, Shortman and Skinnyman.
Let us know in case you got too much money laying around – we’d love to turn them into vinyl toys (I would kill for Gunman and Yellow Man). Until then, you got to be satisfied with the »Mans of Mans« T-shirt.
PS: Check part one of a great interview with Darhil Crooks on Large Up – big man in (editorial) design!
