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Iconic Eyewear, Volume I

by aled

About the design

Submitted by aled on July 18, 2007

Wearers are as follows:



Left column from top down:



Elvis

Jackie O (Kennedy)

James Dean / Tom Cruise

Elton John

Lenny Kravitz

John Lennon



Right column from top down:



Bootsy Collins

Malcolm X

Joey Ramone

Bono

Stevie Wonder (70s)

Audrey Hepburn



All are real people, rather than characters. Those omitted will be included in the following volumes II and III.

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aled
aled profile pic Artist

Wearers are as follows:

Left column from top down:

Elvis
Jackie O (Kennedy)
James Dean / Tom Cruise
Elton John
Lenny Kravitz
John Lennon

Right column from top down:

Bootsy Collins
Malcolm X
Joey Ramone
Bono
Stevie Wonder (70s)
Audrey Hepburn

All are real people, rather than characters. Those omitted will be included in the following volumes II and III.

sillybanana

Awesome.. I want it $5 Please print in time for Australian Summer.. ok thanks!

hollyc2010

I. love. this. and I would definately buy it.

hangthedj

Rad, man! $5!!

canadianbeaver

Working on spec again Aled? OMG I AM SO SORRY.


5

kerouacman

where's groucho? the most iconic of all eyewear?

andyg

Fantastic! 5

harpo25

Great!

adamwhite

Ahhh, I had drawn concept sketches for this exact design 4 years ago.

killers14

$5 ALL THE WAY! WOOP!

adamwhite

Good job by the way

Monkey III

Spectacular!!!!!!!!!!

theblackapple

I love this. Not for me to wear, per se, but it's beautifull drawn and the colors are lovely.

weekend

ohhh yessssssss oh yessss

herky

my favorites are Jackie-O and Audrey Hepburn, nice work.

BrandonB11

i dig on the really cool hand drawn feel... good stuff fatheed

OlliRudi

sweet stuff

Bowtie

as an australian I am offended by the exclusion of Dame Edna, as a human being I am appalled at the missing Groucho Marx. Appalled I tell you!

mfgeorge

love the design, not feeling the colour...

AmyJW

Yes, Groucho is a must.

Duffnut

Looks like Chewie...

aled
aled profile pic Artist

All you favourite will make an appearance in volumes II and III. Besides - Groucho's specs are too similar to Lennon's to be included in this Volume. And Dame Edna is a character - these are actual personalities, as mentioned in the blurb at the top.

13strong

I love it - I know at least two of my speccy friends who would love this. And my eyes have been doing strange things recently, so it's possible I might have to join their ranks.

5$

mullmuggins

I love this, the colours are great! $5

digitalDreamer

ive seen a few spec' t-prints but yours is far better.
i want me some browlines.
$$

eskimokiss

i can see this as a print.
nice work

Mandyhello

love the colors, great design :)

maybe on pink for the ladies?

$5 :)

Mandyhello

p.s. Janice Joplin's sunglasses on 2? hmmmmmm..

Kookaberry

I was gonna say Charles Nelson Rilley but you basically have the sunglass version of his in Jackie O's. =)

$4

catalina_s

this is so awesome! i need it. 5$

thekevinmcgraw

i've seen something very much like this, with most of these people; but the glasses were all straight on instead of from different angles.

chelly

specs are sex

aled
aled profile pic Artist

I like to think mine has a bit more class :)

aled
aled profile pic Artist

And when you say 'most of these people', you mean Lennon.

thekevinmcgraw

so you applied an existing idea to a few new people? groundbreaking. besides, i much prefer the grey and black 2d look and consistency of the other tee.

illeagle

where's harry caray :(

aled
aled profile pic Artist

Thanks for the links Kevin. The one you found buried on flickr is the only one with a similar concept, but most people on Threadless will appreciate the subtleties of my design over the slogan name tagging of that design. The other one is just spec silhouettes so there wasn't really any point in posting that one. Unfortunately there are no original ideas - as Adam White said, above - he had this same concept 4 years ago, but I think this one remains different enough from the ones you found.

sillybanana

The difference is I would buy THIS one, and the other ones are boring.... And really it's all about the moulah!

deaddovedonoteat

I like it a lot, I;d prefer a slightly more exciting shirt color in the background as long as it doesn't mess up the design.

Twiggyhall

Me likey! I would totally wear this.

kennybanzai

I love the history bit involved in this and hand drawn stylin.' I might say the best tee ive seen displaying eyewear. Rad!

FRICKINAWESOME
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Fatheed- I always think that that line "there is nothing new" is the biggest artistic cop-out in the world. There are obviously new things, and we see them from week to week, it's justnthat this is not the most unique idea. But no one has done it with so much paniche and captured the spirit of the people within their eyewear so well, so sometimes doing something a bit better is good enough for me. I wouldn't wear the other versions of this idea...i'd wear this one. 4$

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