Living Room Legend

If you’re going to be a real guitar hero, you need to give your fans their money’s worth. Everyone likes to see a rock star smash their guitar on stage, so it seems approriate in this case to smash up the room a bit and finish with the TV screen. BUY NOW

Deflating Defenses

This sort of speaks for itself, which is why I like it I guess, the idea of an medieval arrow fight on the walls of an inflatable fortress just seems funny to me. It’s the little things. BUY NOW

Deep Secret

After watching a little submersible explore the decks of the Titanic this idea of a light making its way over a foreign structure on the sea bed seemed like a funny one to me. They say the oceans are the last frontier, I’m hoping that future explorations will uncover landmarks like this in the depths. BUY NOW

After Hours

Ever wondered what ninjas do in their downtime? After spending their day lurking in silence I presume they probably want to make some noise when they get home. BUY NOW

Team Photo

I’ve always wanted to do a foosball design. This just came to me one day when I watching some sport. Just seems funny to me - I like the idea of the little identical players all coming together for a photo before they start spinning. BUY NOW

Haunted Housework

Just seems to me like every haunted household should have one. If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, something weird and it don’t look good… just get out your trusty ghost buster and dispose of it. BUY NOW

Scrap Metal

Something just seems funny to me about seeing various metalic icons from the past crushed into cubes! I’ve always wondered what happens to those robots when they reach their used by date? I presume they’re all recycled and then find a second life as an ipod maybe? BUY NOW

Extreme Beginnings

I’m sure back then there was somebody who tried to push the limits. In light of there being no current pictorial evidence I’ve recreated a typical saturday afternoon scene down on the village green where the fathers of extreme pathed the way for things to come! BUY NOW

Prize Catch

There hasn’t seemed to be to be any major loch ness sightings for a while, which leads me to believe that a proud scottish angler now has his finest trophy on display above the mantle piece. BUY NOW

What Would Macgyver Do?

I got sent a link to the top 50 slogans on OMG (former Threadless subsidery), and asked to illustrate the one I liked. Being a huge fan back in the day, the Macgyver slogan was an instant winner for me. it was a public holiday here so worked on this that afternoon, not sure how I came to this? maybe it was reflective of the situation I was in at the time.

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The Dark Side of the Garden

This one of those rare times where Ive had a few ideas for designs and Ive been able to combine random elements, I had seen a topiary tree and thought it may be a subject of a design and just worked back from there, I drew it about 3 times, in each the black caped motorcyclist was in a different position. Originally there was a ladder, but like a lot of my designs I tend to end up taking stuff away, as I think simplicity is always the best. I had drawn the version with the ladder about 6 months before I subbed this and decided it didnt work. I forgot about it but I found it one day going through some files, changed it around a bit and subbed it. which Im glad I did, this is my most reprinted design, and there seems to be a few people around who’ve made some cash ripping it off too, Ive seen it printed on a few different colours.

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Gingerbread Nightmares

Gingerbread nightmares was something that I played around with for ages. I think gingerbread men are good subject matter to make fun of,. I tried incorporating rolling pins, cookie cutters and icing, and also smaller pieces of gingerbread to create a thought bubble but in the end I just kept it simple. I had a friend tell me recently that he thought the despair was because the gingerbread mans mate has disappeared? interesting if thats what people see, but my intended idea is that he’s just realised he has no legs, something that came to me when I was working with the original cookie cutter concept.

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Calling Home

This still remains one of my favourites of all my designs. Not really too much to say about this one, one of those obvous ideas that works because people can instantly get whats going on, which I think is important. I like playing with positive/negative space so I used the interior and exterior light of the phone box to create its form out of the black shirt. this one was also in the day of 4 colour print restriction so to be able to use the shirt colour as part of the design definitely helped.

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Swiss Army

I thought about this idea on a rainy sunday morning while I was making a coffee. (there was a swiss army knife in my kitchen) by lunchtime this was finished except for the soldier. the original design just had an open manhole but after leaving it for a day I added the little guy and sent it in. One of those ones you dont have to think too hard about thats why I think it was pretty easy to resolve the design, it’s one my favourites too.

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Potato Head is Dead

This just seemed like a simple, easily understood concept to me. I like to try to add the ingredients but let the person looking at the shirt fill in the blanks. This still remains one of my favourites. This was a Threadless 12 Month Club shirt so don’t think it will ever be up for sale again. Hope that’s not the case.

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Go Japan!

This was where it all began for me. It was around the time of the olympics in 2004 and I was watching the sprinting events, Im not really sure where the sumo idea came from but I liked the idea of the big guy running his heart out in amongst the finely tuned athletes! This was back in the day when only 4 colours were available. I subbed the design on grey but threadless printed it on red and added the extra colour to the print, which I think was a good choice!

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Mob Musicians

Ive always thought the mafia violin case theme would make for a good design. Just seemed like a funny idea to me that these mobsters are taking there cases to band practice. I wanted to keep it dark so it had a sense that these guys are hanging out in a dark alley somewhere. the arm in the case and the crime scene trumpetter were additions to the final design, but all help make it a bit more sinister

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