September 12, 2007

blip.tv

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[photo cre­dit: Steve Woolf.]
I’ve made a lot of t-shirts in my life. The one for blip.tv is without ques­tion one of my all-time favo­ri­tes.
The shirt had an inte­res­ting gene­sis. I met up with blip.tv’s Char­les Hope for lunch the last time I was in New York. While we were wai­ting for the cof­fee to arrive, I drew him the car­toon, right there at the table. Within a few weeks Char­les had taken the design and tur­ned it into a t-shirt. The rest is his­tory etc.
Hmmmm… Maybe I should be doing more of these.….
[Char­les blog­ged both the lunch and the car­toon here.]

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14 Responses to “blip.tv”

  1. Who do I have to kill/kiss to get one of these? ;)

  2. Heath Row says:

    Nice design! I think you should shy from doing too many. The shirt’ll be cool because of its uni­que­ness. Too many might make it less neat. I’m sure there’s a middle way.

  3. Whitney says:

    Char­les is simply ama­zing, and I love the shirt! We were really glad blip.tv came down to Pod­camp Philly– you should see the pic­ture of Char­les in the Lucha­dor mask. http://www.flickr.com/photos/electricsky/1348458015/

  4. Ryan says:

    Howdy Hugh, I’ve never been here before. I really like your art. It speaks to me like pea­nut but­ter speaks to dry bread.
    any­way, out of curio­sity, Do you like explodingdog.com?
    I have no con­nec­tion to explo­ding dog. So this isn’t a plug or spam or anything. I just am inte­res­ted in seeing if you think it’s cheesy, or if its great.

  5. andrew h says:

    My 0.02 cents… cut a deal with Thread­less to intro­duce ‘The Gaping Void Collection’

  6. Charles Hope says:

    Thank YOU, Hugh! It is defi­ni­tely my favo­rite blip.tv shirt.

  7. Rachel says:

    I can see why — it’s very esoteric.

  8. I love my blip T-shirt! Thanks Hugh and Char­les ;)

  9. Nick says:

    Wow. I hadn’t rea­li­zed how good your car­toons look on shirts until I actually saw it.
    Cafe­Press might have some of my money by the end of the week.

  10. Anne says:

    I second the Gaping Void Collec­tion. I’d pet a skunk to get one. Not that that’s a big­gie — hell, i’ve dated ‘em and even married one skunk back in the day, so what the hey, right?

  11. I agree with Heath, a limi­ted collec­tion would be mar­ve­llous! Howe­ver, I’d insist on a figure-flattering baby tee for wear in Miami, not a clunky big t-shirt. :-)

  12. damewiggy says:

    First time here, but what great con­cepts — very cle­ver. This is genius. Good luck with all — i’ll be lin­king friends.

  13. About time you got hoo­ked up with Blip.tv, Hugh. They’re the best digi­tal media hosts on the pla­net with res­pect to res­pec­ting creators.