Cut-up T-shirt design: Rhythmic Salutations

I raise my glass in a toast to...

The above image is actually a T-shirt design and comprises of a cut-up text about the Kodo drummers of Japan as a background, yet with a rather inebriated, ventriloquists dummy, with a police photo fit constructed face as a fore ground.

Although this image and design is rather old now (1992ish), I still love it as it was my first venture into T-shirt designs, and still retains that odd linear cut-up feel of misplaced words, phrases, and entire paragraphs that in a strange way work when in a way they should not.

As for the image of the inebriated ventriloquists dummy, the reason for this is in some ways to obscure parts of the text, and in other ways to add a surreal splash of colour and form to an already disjointed background image.

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By Heston Quiff