Jay Allen - Non Test Images

[Jay Allen]

These are a few of the non text shirts I'm doing. The first 3 are sprayed with a mixture of discharge ink and waterbased ink. I can't tell you how long it took me to figure out how to do this. These shirts are absolutely unique from shirt to shirt. I can't control the process well enough to duplicate designs exactly......and I'm not sure I'd want to.

This one is interesting because I was able to drive the ink through the shirt to create a "blair witchy" effect.

Keep in mind that these are working samples and aren't on the shirt they will eventually be on. But it should give you an idea......

[Dangydang]

I'm feelin that rising sun shirt. Keep it up man.

[BoardC3]

I really love the dying techniques and how it looks, Im just not really feeling some of these designs (although I love the ones on your other thread) keep up the good work

[adsurgo]

yo let me get a couple pieces.

[Jay Allen]

Thee has been a lot of interest in this style of shirt. I'm going into production on them in the next 10 days or so. Just drop me an email and I'll contact you when I've got some made. Thanks!

[frogeyes]

This is not hate, but those are some of the ugliest things I have seen since the cupcakes goof. They look like 6 some tie-dye shit that some 5 year old kid did. Again, my 3 cents which means nothing, but c'mon.....

[giantreptile]

the shirts are definitely a little hippy-ish.

[Jay Allen]

That is the beauty of these forums......good, honest feedback. You would probably appreciate, or at least not be horrified by, the other shirts I posted earlier. This group is non-text based and sort of organic in style.

[134]

I love the rising sun shirt. Will you be manufacturing it in a vareity of different color combinations or is that the only one?

You are bringing something new into the saturated t-shirt market. I think your sucess will mostly be affected by how wearable the designs are. I would be very interested if you did some type of all-over geometric prints or patterns using this technique.

Uniqueness are wearability can go hand it hand. In a lot of your designs the balance is a little off. The shirt with the star is a little too "look at me and my t-shirt, I'm a hipster wearing girls jeans".

Edited by 134 on Oct 18, 2005 at 10:38 AM

[Jay Allen]

I'm still playing with this technique. I've only showed this stuff to people on this forum and one other. It really is a love/hate thing. I've had several PM's asking to buy them.....and other people say it looks like a 5 year old did them.<smile>

To answer your question - I plan to do these shirts in a variety of colors and designs. I'm still working out the details. I've already had one retailer want to order them.....

Thanks for the kind words!

[nappyhead jenkins]

i like the idea mor ethen teh actual execution

but then maybe its just not for me