Tribute: Me-shirts

Fashion is advertising. What you wear says a lot about you, both implicit and explicit. Everything from musical tastes to political preferences to sexual availability can be predicted by your shoes, jacket, pants or hat.

The modern t-shirt pushes the fashion as advertisement to an extreme, often serving as mini billboards that people carry through their day. Emblazoned with band names, funny phrases, and full color portraits, graphic t-shirts expose personalities bluntly.

In this Tribute, our task push the boundaries of the graphic t-shirt to create highly personal advertisements emblazoned across our torsos. These "me-shirt" designs are to be one-of-a-kind homages to the self, toying with our own vanities and private thoughts.

Deliverable: One hi-quality mock-up of a me-shirt
Bonus deliverable: Explanation of the manufacturing process to realize your design

Documeat

Use a specialized toaster to roast meat such that legible words are roasted onto the surface of the meat. Can be used at restaurants to "print" poems onto the meat that the diners read & ponder while eating. Can also print agendas for business lunches; the diner can only eat portions of the meat whose topics have been addressed. Once bioprinters are mainstream, the meat may be printed onto the plate into the shapes of words.

Hexagonal Penrose tiles

"Penrose tiles" are a specific geometry of two types of mosaic tiles: kites & darts. When assembled, they create an aperiodic pattern; e.g. never precisely repeating; each iteration of the pattern is unique.

I was disassembling a tea package that was a triangular prism. I accidentally ripped it & identified the pattern as similar to a Penrose kite, though slightly different. Five Penrose darts can be assembled into a pentagon-type geometry; whereas my found object created a hexagonal center because of the central angle of the tea package. Also, Penrose tiles have four sides, mine have five. 


They can be arranged into fun things