Bridge and Tunnel is a band from New York that emerged after the breakup of one of my favorite bands in the past 5 years, Latterman. I had been in contact with the drummer Pat Schramm back in 2007 and he needed a shirt design. I asked him what he wanted and he just said to make design with stuff they like on it, like “bikes, coffee, guitars, etc.”
There wasn’t much more direction than that other than it need to be big on the shirt and very few colors. It was going to be printed by a different Pat, Pat Cran, for Shout Out Loud Prints. A DIY print shop in Columbus, OH. He wanted to experiment with oversized screen prints and this was the perfect job.
I happened to stumble across this image of Ryan Martin of the band Oceans. According to the band’s Myspace, the photo was taken September 27th, 2008 by “summers” at Superhappyfunfest in Bloomington, IL at @ Mack Glass Co. That’s interesting because that is the same date I got married!
Cool illustration!
I like how it’s different but similar to your usual style (a bit bolder I think).
The line work is clean and crisp.
Rad shirt, loved Latterman! Wish I could have seen this band last time they were here.
I’m just in the process of colouring it in with fabric pens, it’s a long and labourious project but it’s going to look ace! Had been googling it to see if anyone else had (for inspiration!) and found your website. Cheers for the grand design!