Archive for 2006
Raindog Shirt for SplitTheAtom
UK-based start-up SplitTheAtom is/was a community-based web site where artists and illustrators from around the world could submit T-shirt designs to be voted upon and potentially printed and sold exclusively through the site. Designs were produced as low quantity, limited edition pieces, ensuring that shirts are both exclusive and desirable. T-shirts were available for both men and women, and each shirt costs £15 plus postage at £1.40 per item (UK). T-shirts sold on the site featured designs “created by the likes of doodle doyen Jon Burgerman and kooky cartoonist The Boy Fitz Hammond, as well as by a host of avant-garde luminaries from France, Italy, Holland, Mexico and the USA.” Jon’s design (seen here) from 2006 was called Raindog.
Doodlesplat Messenger Bag
In 2006, Jon produced a stunning messenger bag that bears the same name as this humble blogography. Doodlesplat is a cord-lined courier (or messenger as we say in the US) style bag with its front flap screen-printed with a Doodlesplat. It features a small side pocket for your mobile phone and a big badge on the front. The bag size is approximately 30×37x8cm. Photos courtesy of happy Doodlesplat owner Marion Hawkes. I would love to have this bag…
Funkrush Milky Smile Shirt
Funkrush is a clothing company that was founded in 2006. It produces T-shirts, hoodies, etc…all designed by a select crew of illustrators.
In addition to Jon, some of the artists who have designed clothes for Funkuish include: Tado, Dalek, 123Klan, MAD, Hello Brute, Squink, Sket-One, Peskimo, Zeptonn and DGPH. You can buy Funkrush clothing here. Jon’s Milky Smile shirt is currently on sale for just £8 here.
Adidas Adicolor
Jon hand-customized a pair of sneakers (that’s ‘trainers’ in the UK or ‘tennis shoes’ in certain parts of the US) and a cap for the Adidas Adicolor Exhibition in Taiwan in 2006.
The Elements of Colourful Surroundings Exhibition
The Elements of Colourful Surroundings show at the Novas Gallery in London ran through September 8th, 2006. There were prints, drawings, animations and other goodies on display by Jon, Steve Gee, Keith Watts and Andrea Morgan. I like the 3D cube doodles quite a bit.
Fatcap Custom
Jon customized a 20-inch Fatcap toy for the Kidrobot Paintball benefit in New York on September 7, 2006. The piece was auctioned off with all proceeds going to the Save The Children Federation charity.
Corrupted Data Mimobot
Jon contributed a mimobot design to Flying Cat x Mimoco Artist Series 1 (with TADO) in 2006.
Corrupted_Data is a dancing mêlée of all your important ones and zeros, turned to mush by an unexpected surge of electricity. Important financial documents have morphed into showery black clouds, your mp3’s have curled at the edges and gone crispy and all your favourite photos have gone from jpegs to jumping king-bird-fish heads. Cheeky and hungry spores swim through the vast sea of homeless binary searching for new hosts to infect.
Corrupted_Data features an exclusive animated treat featuring the blip-bloppy music of UK-based Penfold Plum.
mimobots are a line of collectible art toy USB flash drives launched in 2005 by mimoco LLC. Designed by contemporary character artists and produced in limited runs of usually between 500 to 3,500 units, mimobots merge the aesthetics of art toys with the function of USB flash drives. Their memory capacities range from 512MB to 4GB and each mimobot is preloaded with bonus original and removable content including animation, music, games, video, screensavers, or other surprises. The Jon Burgerman mimobot has been sold out for years, but you can still see the original animated trailer here.
Graniph Shirt
Here’s an old gem dug up by Amir. Per Jon, what this is is an “old old old image from 2003, i think but the shirt came out later.” We’re going with 2006 as a guess here. The shirt was made for Japan’s Graniph, a site with so many great shirts and so much great Engrish. But alas, this one is long gone.
Flying Cat Tote Bag
Another artifact from the Flying Cat period, these “super lovely” tote bags featured a double-lined interior with a zipper pocket, and they came with a print.
SABRE Shirt and Hoodie
SABRE is a German streetwear label that has a long-sleeve brown doodles shirt by Jon (39,90 Euros here) and a sold-out ladies green doodled hoodie.
SABRE is Sylvia Sadler and Denis Wischniewski aka Bloodlet who live in the bavarian countryside and influence new styles. In the late eighties, they drove to all the shows and put on the hardest concerts… their crew had the radest windmills and the arms full with ink. They love(d) the music, the message from Circle Jerks, DI, Inside Out, Slayer, Spermbirds, Government Issue, Agnostic Front, Madball, H20, Youth of Today, 108, Warzone, Cro-Mags, Suicidal Tendencies, Underdog, Slapshot, Merauder ,…Later on a further component of Sabre was added: Bloodlet made his first fanzines, designed recordcovers and tourposters and discovered the beauty and power of typography and graphic. They weren’t liked to be seen everywhere because Bloodlets ideas were too way-out, the dude to crazy, and the trap to big. But this also belongs to SABRE.
All this is SABRE now: Design, Punk, Typo, Hardcore and Streetart – always evil, always rough. The shirts are made left hand under the stairs to the first floor, handprinted with love to the detail. The artists we love and that find us cool are in a design on our shirts. SABRE is very open for collaborations with other labels, brands and just doing individual graphic-design. Ask for it.
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