Space for a Name » Non-Sequitur http://spaceforaname.com An Experiment in Design Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:57:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Intermission: Nike Ripping from Threadless? http://spaceforaname.com/non-sequitur/intermission-nike-ripping-from-threadless http://spaceforaname.com/non-sequitur/intermission-nike-ripping-from-threadless#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:31:27 +0000 Jack http://spaceforaname.com/?p=34 Over at Threadless, there’s a shirt called Spoilt. The design consists of numerous movie/book spoilers crammed onto the front of the shirt; red and white graphics on black fabric.

Spoilt

Overall, a pretty effective design that makes good use of varying font faces and iconic graphics. Just the other day, I was wandering back to my car at the mall, when I passed a display in Macy’s for Jumpman, Michael Jordan’s Nike offshoot brand. A particular shirt caught my attention.

Jumpman Shirt

Many (all?) of Jordan’s career accomplishments crammed into a rectangle on the front of a shirt. Red/white graphics on a black shirt. To me at least, the connection was instantaneous. I saw this shirt, I immediately thought of Spoilt. So, honest coincidence, or did some designer over at Jumpman just get lazy?  What are your thoughts?

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