Posted on April 21, 2009 ¬ 7:57 amh.Dominic
I got an email a few months back from a young enterprising American who loved Plastered T shirts and was organising a fashion show in the USA and wanted to feature our t shirts. They featured 5 designers in total. The show benefitted the China Care Foundation Here are a few pictures from the show.
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Posted on April 12, 2009 ¬ 11:31 pmh.Dominic
Ten years ago was one of the most exciting times in my life in terms of music at least. The Scream club in Beijing was packed most nights and performing were a bunch of really great punk bands who collectively were known as Wu Liao Jun Dui (The Bored Army). Among the contingent were the [...]
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Posted on April 12, 2009 ¬ 10:19 pmh.Dominic
I Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelinn fame had been to our flagship store during the Olympics before his performance in the closing ceremony alongside David Beckham and Leona Lewis, but had never seen him sporting his Plastered T shirt before. Thanks to Steve Chiu for sending me this pic.
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Posted on April 4, 2009 ¬ 11:31 pmh.Dominic
Plastered and danwei.org have teamed up for an online competition to designdanwei.org a t-shirt. The winning design wins 888 RMB cash so give it a go. I’ll be judging the designs along with a panel of very interesting folk. Once the winning design is chosen Plastered will tweak it so it’s silk screen friendly and [...]
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Posted on April 2, 2009 ¬ 11:28 pmh.Dominic
State television made a cracking documentary about the history of Nan Luo Gu Xiang and interviewed those who have lived on the street or been a part in its recent change. Plastered was featured as one of the more recent influences on this brilliant hu tong – watch documentary on openv.com. And here is a [...]
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Posted on March 30, 2009 ¬ 11:24 pmh.Dominic
Back in 2008 I was appraoched by one of London England’s most successful t-shirt brands: Terratag. Terratag has taken the European t-shirt market by storm with its brilliant manga and other related graphics. Terratag and Plastered promptly signed a deal to distribute each other’s designs in their respective countries. We then worked on a design [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2009 ¬ 11:02 pmh.Dominic
We’ve built a giant 8 for our window display just to brighten up your day. The front image of the giant 8 will change every two weeks. Here is the beautiful 8′s journey from where it was made to its place in our flagship store.
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Posted on March 25, 2009 ¬ 11:01 pmh.Dominic
Last Friday night I went to see GAR, one of Beijing’s young, brilliant bands. They played at Yu Gong Yi Shan to a massive crowd. The concert marked the official release of their first album which I now have playing in my office … all day. I hope they go on to do great things. [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2009 ¬ 10:23 pmh.Dominic
Sponsoring music in China is one of our greatest passions. Our work withmicromu has resulted in one that we are particularly proud of. Here is a great song by Jeff Zhang, singer song writer from Carsick Cars recorded by micromu and sponsored by Plastered T-shirts. The song, Dead Flower, has been viewed on many Chinese [...]
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Posted on February 14, 2009 ¬ 10:19 pmh.Dominic
Got this screen shot from a mate who happened to be watching “Lu You Wei Shi” tv station when these two beautiful presenters appeared Plastered. I was told they were talking about retro.
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