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Nike Football T-shirt Designs

maxwell lord — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:27:55 +0000

Back in October 2009 I was commissioned by Nike for a series of t-shirt designs for Nike Football line. I was asked to come up with three hand-drawn illustrations based on soccer teams’ own visual elements and my lettering/custom decorative type. The teams were Manchester United, Juventus & Corinthians Paulista.

I was waiting to post those up for a long time and finally — today is the day! Read full post for the designs and some sketches.

For Corinthians design I was also asked to render this eagle’s clutch below:

Working with Nike was a really useful experience. I never sketched so many variants of different ideas/concepts before — I had hundreds of paper sheets filled with all sorts of drawings lying literally all around my room for like 3 or 4 weeks.

I scanned pre-ink sketches of the first two designs and some of the most interesting concepts for ya’ll sketch & type lovers out there! Check it:

Here’s my MUFC with “brutal tattoo” interpretation of the script, rejected:

Some tasty concepts, rejected variants and test renders:

Hope you enjoyed looking through those pieces! Thank you for watching & make sure you set a bookmark to come check my blog later for more goodness!

Desired Hearts × 86era T-shirts

maxwell lord — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:10:23 +0000

I’m glad to present one of the best (art-wise) collaborations of this year so far — the series of hand-drawn graphics for t-shirt mini-line called “Pursue Your Passions.”

Concept & ideas: Roby Fitzhenry & Maxwell Lord.
T-shirts were scheduled for August 2010 drop but delayed because Desired Hearts HQ moved to Houston, TX earlier this year. The line will be available anytime soon, keep your eyes on desiredhearts.com and my blog!

Abstracts

maxwell lord — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:25:50 +0000

More abstracts!

I drew two squares/rhombuses and played with them in PS. I’ve been thinking of printing those but am still not sure about the colors. So if you got any fresh ideas in what colors (besides b/w) those two pieces should be printed — let me know! better with jpg-previews :)

UPD: black and white version is the most popular suggestion so far:

Desired Hearts × 86era “Pursue Your Passions” T-Shirts

maxwell lord — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:50:32 +0000

This mini t-shirt line is the result of collaboration between Desired Hearts and 86era. Stay tuned for release date & actual product photos!

More “Find The Truth” photos

maxwell lord — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:19:45 +0000

My comrade Nick Kavassalis from Canada took & shared a few photos of my Design By Humans t-shirt! Dig the photos in his flickr photostream:

Thank you Nick!

Want to support 86era — get yourself a t-shirt.

Find The Truth at DBH

maxwell lord — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:02:13 +0000

Yes, I took over the main page of Design By Humans with my t-shirt! Check it out:

Here’s the original illustration — click, in case some of you missed the details. Available only in this weird colorway for now. Starting today, $25 and the shirt is yours! Support is highly appreciated, as every sold t-shirt raises the chances of getting it reprinted on different color. Thanks to everyone who already got one!

+ some more related stuff: fresh interview (thanks to Michelle & Jimi for putting this up) and another shot for my own collection: