Plastered is 5 years old and each year we throw a party to celebrate this. This year its a small gathering of about 100 Plastered VIPs with lots of give aways and fantastic drinks and food and music all in a beautiful courtyard house. We’d love some of our customers to come along too so if you’d like to join in the party, have a great time please emails us at five@plasteredtshirts.com and we’ll pick some lucky ones to join in.
Its a really sad day to see one of the original Nan Luo business pack up and leave today. Saveurs de Coree started up around the same time as Plastered in 2006 and I worked with the boss King Tai on Nan Luo Gu Xiang’s first festival in 2007. King Tai gave so much to this great Hu Tong, he was unfortunately the victim of a greedy landlord but the good news is he is settling up only 600 metres away on Xiang Er Hu Tong number 128 just east of Nan Luo Gu xiang and is offering fine Korean grill on top of their usual brilliant Korean food. Doors will be open in the next few days so support a great Chinese entrepreneur with a kind heart and go enjoy his great food.
Its that time of year again when the affordable art fair arrives and lots of budding artists get to show off their artwork and sell it for an affordable price. Last year I submitted my stained glass windows. This year I’m showing off some of the artwork I collaborated on with Needles and Pins tattoo studio. All prints are signed by wang ke from needles and pins.Two limited edition screen prints of artwork from this year and last year. This year the event is in 798, nearly 1000 pieces of artwork so should be a blast.
Yesterday I had a great day with two super talented photographers Ren Hang and Matthew Niederhauser shooting our new and old designs from the last year. In just under 6 hours we covered New York, Paris, London and Egypt at Beijing’s super kitsch and crazy international park. I can’t wait to see the results from this shoot next week which I will post online very soon. Here is a pic I took with my iphone of the models in Manhattan New York.
5 years ago today my wife and I opened the first creative shop on a quiet Hu Tong called Nan Luo Gu Xiang (see photos of first shop). We sold 2 T-shirts on that day and had no idea what the future held. 5 years on and Nan Luo Gu Xiang is a crazy busy place and Plastered is quite an established brand. Thank you to all of you who have helped us along the way and expect a big party towards the end of May. Will keep you posted.
I’ve been following the Beijing based band Reflector for years, pretty much since they started and even back to the old Wu Liao Jun Dui days. This year has been a brilliant year for them, they won 3 big awards most notably The Best Band in China recently. Back in November last year they sat in the Plastered flagship store window and hung out, Li Peng played his guitar and tones of people gathered to watch. Plastered will be working on a new Reflector T-shirt this year which we are working on with some local artists.
We now supply Plastered VIP parking right on Nan Luo Gu Xiang for all those people who love to drive up the Hu Tong in their big cars and want close parking right next to our store. This might help alleviate some of the parking problems on the street and might prevent areas being destroyed for building under ground parking lots.
Newly-opened Beijing-based pizza brand GUNG HO PIZZA joins forces with iconic t-shirt designer PLASTERED T-SHIRTS to support BEIJING ART with a series of pizza boxes designed by new up-and-coming Beijing artists.
PLASTERED T-SHIRTS is a Beijing-based designer brand looking to change peoples’ lives through creative and iconic street-wear.
GUNG HO PIZZA is a newly opened Beijing-based pizza joint looking to bring a little art and passion into the food and beverage industry.
Order Gung Ho Pizza for a chance to win a PLASTERED T-SHIRT. Check out Gung Ho Pizza online to win A FRAMED PRINT SIGNED BY THE ARTIST.
Want to see your art on the Gung Ho pizza boxes? Send an email to johnandjade@gunghopizza.com
After working on our Tattoo collection with Needles and Pinns tattoo studio I couldn’t help but go back and work with them on more artwork cause….they’re brilliant. This piece we’ve taken an old potty (which we use to collect names cards in the shops) and added some retro looking kids and some tattoo elements, this will be hitting the stores in May!
Plastered’s 2011 put a Spring in your step Designs
We will not be generic.New bold and beautiful designs from Plastered that will change your life! More wicked designs coming in May.
Flying Retro Panda
Only Plastered pandas can fly.This retro design was inspired from Beijing logos past.
8 and Crossbones
We’ve Plastered up the skull and crossbones design by replacing the skull with an iconic 8 made up of Beijing’s favourite hard alcohol labels.
The People’s Cash
The inspiration for this design is money: the old 1 jiao bank note (which now won’t get you much). We’ve made this more Plastered by playing with the colours and the wording…. Instead of reading “The People’s Bank of China” it reads “The People of China are excellent”.
