Jimiyo Interview

Artist and t-shirt designer Jimmy Benedict aka Jimiyo has bared his soul over at new blog, The Familiar Strangers. OK, so baring his soul is a bit melodramatic but it got your attention.

Like the Presidential race, I’ve stopped paying attention to the trends to prevent myself from having a fruitless opinion. When I did pay attention, I became annoyed at tired concepts that had been done over and over. Wait, here’s one: C-Mothereffing-Y-K shirts. (Read more.)

I’m assuming that you didn’t stay around to read this sentence but hey, I need the typing practice. If on the other hand you were foolishly expecting me to drop some pearls of wisdom you are surely disappointed but you can cheer yourself up by purchasing a few of Jimiyo’s creations, some of which you can see below.

Collision Theory Rising

AJ Dimarucot aka Collision Theory is doing very well for himself recently. You may notice the similarity of this image and the previous image and the reason is that Collision Theory had a hand in that one too collaborating with Jimiyo. He was also the winner of Design by Humans‘ DBH10K just last week. This great tee is his eighth win at Design by Humans so if you are more into wolves than bears you are in luck.

Animals are Wild at Threadless

It’s Monday again which means Threadless have released new tees and reprinted some old ones. The good news is that artist Jimiyo has finally gotten recognition at Threadless. His first t-shirt to be printed there is a collaboration effort with AJ Dimarucot aka the110 (of Collision Theory, I believe) and it is a fantastic image of a roaring panda. Yes, I agree that the roaring bear has been done to death but this effort is rescued by its unique artistic styling. The placement of the design is also great. It’s definitely going on my wish list. As time goes on Jimiyo is showing more range and more than ever I am looking forward to seeing what he comes up with next. He has another potential collaboration winner on his hands which you can see on his blog.

This other design is a reprint and it reminds me of the Uneetee t-shirt a reviewed a few posts back. It to a heavily maned lion taking up most of the t-shirt but that is where the similarity ends. This lion looks more like something you would see in a fantasy movie where wise old lions converse with humans on a daily basis. Of course the spectacles lend that effect.