Typo Shirt One

Featuring more than 1,700 unique designs from all over the world, TypoShirtOne is the first book to focus exclusively on T-shirt typography. Spanningmessage and logo T-shirts to more abstract and arty models that transmitmore cryptic messages, TypoShirt One showcases current and historicalT-shirts from small, independent labels and artists to those created byglobally recognized names and brands. Ever since the T-shirt crossed overfrom unadorned male innerwear item to a hugely popular unisex wardrobestaple more than half a century ago, no other piece of apparel has featuredas many expressive and fascinating claims, statements, typefaces and"instant messages." These transmitted messages gain an irreversiblestrength and power through the motifs that, in this book's pages, arereduced to their substance, related to the form and content. Created forfans of graphic design, fashion and popular culture, TypoShirt One is anintriguing look at the wearable fabric canvases where these worlds-andwords-meet.