Cape Cod

Every year I design some kind of group of designs around anchors and boats and life by the sea. These nautical themes endure and never seem to go out of fashion. I finally got around to do some for my own store- so check out the Cape Cod section if you are in the mood for lobsters, whales, anchors and ropes - all inspired by my vacations there that I absolutely loved.

New Wave

Vintage Ocean Pacific apparel circa eighties has been a big source of interest for me as inspiration for color palettes as well as graphics for surf tees for a while now but it looks like its starting to really take off this summer not only with some great references to the archives in Op's current line but also in the eighties aesthetics ( lots of mod patterns, angled layouts ) from a variety of board short companies.

Footwork

I finally got round to working on the new Keds shoes that are now available in Zazzle and I have to say, I think this is really cool. I was really only working with graphic images that were already being used on t shirts and the results were great- check out wheels and motorcycle club. Coincidentally, one of the images on the inspiration/concept board I was drawn to for this vintage motorcycle/auto group was a pair of red sneakers. Looking forward to designing more specific ideas using the exact templates.

UPDATE Just discovered that keds have a cool website up called The Original Sneaker.

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