COMMENTS (8)
by: FreFee
posted: October 06, 2008
Really like your design. Only thing I’d like more is if it weren’t framed and blended into the T-shirt more organically without borders. Great concept though.
by: jchabri
posted: October 07, 2008
I was expecting a comment suggesting that 
For some reason I started out w/ a square design and then when I realized and tried to maneuver it some I felt like I was losing much of the piece...great idea though. I concluded for this submission, the REHANCE printing would make the framed design still look nice on a t-shirt. Thanks for your comment!!
by: geezerita
posted: October 07, 2008
I like the weeping flower and the nuclear clouds in the background
by: bluberri
posted: October 08, 2008
I think this design is very effective, great execution of the feeling of disaster looming overhead.
by: Crumpit
posted: October 16, 2008
Cool design. Only wish you had incorporated it into the background T-shirt. I’m just not a fan of square patches and cropped lines.Wouldn’t be hard to do and it would look awesome.
by: jchabri
posted: October 16, 2008
Thanks! Looks like I’ll be needing to work some more on this...I see the potential of it looking better if I didn’t square it off. Ok, well back in the lab…
by: GreenMan
posted: November 20, 2008
Agree with crumpit, and I’d select some of the elements and really work them well. Think often less is more on a tee.
by: jchabri
posted: November 21, 2008
Thanks for commenting! I wouldn’t have even known the contest was still going on! Which is great b/c now I have more time to re-work it and maybe do something else.
Tshirt design is new to me, I normally do painting and clothing from scratch so I think my mind automatically thinks differently. So thank you for the input. It helps a lot.
What Have They Done
Artist: jchabri
Contest: Fallout in Love Again
Category: Environment
Posted: October 6, 2008
Times Scored: 21
No. Comments: 8
Average Score: Hidden until contest ends
About My Design:
I was inspired to create this piece by the old song “What have they done to the Rain” by Malvina Reynolds. I have been listening to her music a lot lately and it is so inspiring to translate some of those activist lyrics to visual art. My design is in a way a tribute to past efforts in anti-nuclear movements and brings the tone of retro flower power, peace and love, but with modern undertones because this is a current issue we must face. Nuclear energy waste is one of those things that will affect us and our environment even if we do not realize the actual effects until it is too late. Besides the obvious imagery, the colors in the piece create an eerie and radioactive melancholy mood with all the blues, including the bluebird blue t-shirt color chosen. The browns and black in the tumultuous sky reveals what disaster may come if we allow nuclear energy waste to seep into our environment. Radioactive symbols are deep within the earth, and even on the dew drops and tears of the love flower.
I used 7 colors.
I chose to not include a t-shirt image sample so you can see more detail.
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