Ben “Munkying around” – Looking into T-shirt manufacturers.

Ben “Munkying around” – Looking into T-shirt manufacturers.

Today I went with Jan to investigate the viability of manufacturing customised t-shirts for one of our clients. We visited Munky UK, a custom T-shirt maker based in Southampton.
They use a special vinyl which is cut with to a design using the digital vinyl cutter. They can produce personalised designs. The vinyl is weeded; they pick out what is unnecessary from the design. This is then heat pressed onto a t-shirt.

The vinyl is very flexible it comes in a variety of colours and textures including flock, which has a velour like texture. It is very durable and will most likely outlast the life of the t-shirt.
We left with some prototype designs. It was not exactly what we were looking for but it produced some useful ideas.
Check them out at http://www.munkyuk.com/

Got back to the office and had a conference call with a client. I did some test shots of the T-shirts to see how they might look online and dealt with some emails. I packaged the t-shirts up and took them off to be posted to the client, so could see what they looked like.

Leon - XTM International - Animation stuff in progress - XTM International

I think I have everything required in a core concept for the animated elements for XTM Internation. It's based on the idea of 'translation environment' linked together with the inspirational line 'Language translation technology'

It also resembles the client's liking for the stuff we did for SolStonePlus loast year, though I think this will kick it's butt if developed and agreed by the client, so ignore the colours and detail, just look through to the idea I explain below...

Imagine a transparent cube containing all the titles/illustrations we needed for the site/brand ... now imagine travelling around it in 4 dimensions, as though we were following the translation data. Well, perhaps the following video is a better way to explain the concept!