A little story about my Kevin Garnett design..
Posted December 17th, 2009 by collisiontheory
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So I posted this over a year ago..When the Celtics won over the Lakers.
http://emptees.com/tees/4927-killer-instinct
I had a friend who worked in Adidas in my country and I emailed him the graphic, asking him to send it over to his US contacts. I was hoping they would pick it up and use it on t-shirts.
A year passed and nothing came of it. Until June of this year.
I got an email.
From Adidas.
They wanted to buy the graphic.
Fuck.
I didn't wait long enough....I had sold the graphic to a clothing line who liked the zombie quality of the design. And they didn't really care that it was actually KG. I never expected Adidas to come back to me after so long. So I sold the damn design to someone else!
So I told the Adidas contact it was not available anymore expecting I would probably miss the only chance I could work with a client like Adidas. But good thing they wanted me to do graphics for Dwight Howard (fuck you SWH haha) and Derrick Rose. So I did! They're not in stores yet and probably won't be available until 2010 (if at all they print it).
So I was stoked. Thinking I was lucky enough to have worked for them. Damn good pieces for the folio.
I thought it would end there.
Come November of this year. Nike US emails me and asks if I could do some t-shirt graphics for them. Telling me how much they like my work. They actually showed me a design of mine they really liked.
Guess what graphic it was..
..KEVIN FUCKING GARNETT!!
So I did two Nike Air Max graphics for them for their Europe accounts. They paid me a damn huge amount and they may or may not print the design.
So there. I officially love Kevin Garnett.
Moral of the story. Do things you love. One day someone will pay you for it.
http://emptees.com/tees/4927-killer-instinct
I had a friend who worked in Adidas in my country and I emailed him the graphic, asking him to send it over to his US contacts. I was hoping they would pick it up and use it on t-shirts.
A year passed and nothing came of it. Until June of this year.
I got an email.
From Adidas.
They wanted to buy the graphic.
Fuck.
I didn't wait long enough....I had sold the graphic to a clothing line who liked the zombie quality of the design. And they didn't really care that it was actually KG. I never expected Adidas to come back to me after so long. So I sold the damn design to someone else!
So I told the Adidas contact it was not available anymore expecting I would probably miss the only chance I could work with a client like Adidas. But good thing they wanted me to do graphics for Dwight Howard (fuck you SWH haha) and Derrick Rose. So I did! They're not in stores yet and probably won't be available until 2010 (if at all they print it).
So I was stoked. Thinking I was lucky enough to have worked for them. Damn good pieces for the folio.
I thought it would end there.
Come November of this year. Nike US emails me and asks if I could do some t-shirt graphics for them. Telling me how much they like my work. They actually showed me a design of mine they really liked.
Guess what graphic it was..
..KEVIN FUCKING GARNETT!!
So I did two Nike Air Max graphics for them for their Europe accounts. They paid me a damn huge amount and they may or may not print the design.
So there. I officially love Kevin Garnett.
Moral of the story. Do things you love. One day someone will pay you for it.
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65 Comments
atomicchild said about 3 years ago
congrats...so damn cool
ExaltedByMark. said about 3 years ago
I used to love him on the T-Wolves now hate him as a Celtic
(Not real hate, just Laker Hatred ;)
Keep this amazing style of yours up A.J. :)
Gianni said about 3 years ago
Matt Willmott said about 3 years ago
Congrats CT. Stories like that are always great to read. I hope you carry on being just as awesome.
swissarmyshark said about 3 years ago
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110specialblack said about 3 years ago
SteveOramA said about 3 years ago
it's all true for me too.
keep doing your thing!
gaunty said about 3 years ago
Johnny Cupcakes said about 3 years ago
Speaking of Kevin Garnett-- He walked into my LA shop and happen to think it was a bakery at first. He was so tall that he almost hit his head on some of my wall-mounted ovens. My employees said he was the nicest guy ever. Hung out for a half an hour and spent over $600 on himself and his lady. Luckily we had XXXL in every t-shirt design.
David Merritt said about 3 years ago
JoeBaronDesign said about 3 years ago
The Johnny Cupcakes story is pretty cool, too. Good to know he's a nice guy.
G-rant said about 3 years ago
edword said about 3 years ago
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DeadRight said about 3 years ago
That is pretty damn awesome.
Truman325i said about 3 years ago
Im only gonna let you like the lakers since St.louis didnt have a team
oohdoyle said about 3 years ago
Tom Philibeck said about 3 years ago
haha EXCATLY what I was just thinking. Thank you, Lonely Island.
Integral said about 3 years ago
collisiontheory said about 3 years ago
"Anything is Possible if you Just Do It.
GALLERIA-T said about 3 years ago
i came from nothing said about 3 years ago
Yeah Nike love this style, ever since Dave White did sneaker paintings for them and is now huge...
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