Archive for the 'Design' Category

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Finished is not in our vocabulary…

Here at the-affair, we’re never truly happy. Although we sell the best quality product we can source, we’re constantly looking for ways to improve it. It doesn’t make the previous t-shirts inferior, it just makes the new ones we’re about to drop that much closer to the ideal we’ve got in our heads.

We’ve just changed [...]

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

FWA Site of the Day

Guess what? We’ve won the FWA!!!! If you don’t already know, its the premier global website award, and its a real honour - especially as we don’t quite have the same budget as a global car brand.

Thanks again to our resident Flash guru Kamil Gottwald for making it all happen. And if you’re in the [...]

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Batch.02 is live!

It’s been a wild and intense 6 months since we launched this affair. In that time, we’ve been boring countless people at dinner parties with tales of our exploits, as well as posting our tees off to exotic and unexpected destinations.

Tempers were frayed, sanity was threatened, calls from friends and concerned family members went unanswered [...]

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

batch.02 dropping early feb

Last week we were up at 5th Column with Spike printing our 3x new shirts. We’re calling these ‘batch.02′ and they’ll be dropping early feb, along with 2x hoodies in different colourways.

Its certainly been an interesting process the second-time around. With strong demand for the previous 2x designs, and Miniluv in general, we easily could’ve [...]

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

Muslim Jesus dissected

Anyone interested in the exactly how the Muslim Jesus shirt was created should head on down to the October session of the LFPUG. We’ll be giving a talk about the system we wrote in Flash that created the illustration and about how we got exactly the right play between the image of Jesus and the Muslim crescents that create him.

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Packaging

OK so packaging might not be the top-most thing to think about when starting a tee brand, but it was something we decided to look into as a point of differentiation… Everyone’s received a generic brown envelope in the mail, with a tee folded in a generic way and wrapped in generic plastic.

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Blog design

Trust me, I’m all over it ;) I’m just trying to find the time to do it. In the meantime, check out the proposed design above.

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Beta designs

Monday, June 18th, 2007

Testbed…

Eventually I’d like to use this space as a test bed for all new designs. And with your feedback we can ensure we’re always providing you with what you want :)