Nate - Nate Maggio avatar

Iron and Wine

posted 10 months ago by Nate

Iron and Wine image

I drew this and cleaned it up on Illy. It is my first time drawing an idea and tracing it on the computer. It was a good learning process. :)

It would be a 3 color screen print on a heather gray tee.

I would really appreciate any comments for the design. I was hopping to submit it to Sam Beam (Iron and Wine) for a tee design. He wasn’t asking, but I think it would be a sweet shirt. Is that lame to submit a tee design when they aren’t asking for one?

EDIT: I sent the design to his label and to his myspace. We will see how it goes!

14 Comments

  1. Oliver - Oliver Barrett avatar

    Oliver said 10 months ago

    I don’t think pitching a design to someone not expecting it is lame at all. You just have to find the right person to talk to. I was actually thinking of working something up and pitching it as well.

  2. cmcarson - Chris avatar

    cmcarson said 10 months ago

    No. Not lame. You should go for it.

  3. Trebor - Robert Karpati avatar

    Trebor said 10 months ago

    Call me!
    It so nice!

  4. MIKS - Matt Quirk avatar

    MIKS said 10 months ago

    Yeah man, do it. You could cut it down to a 2 color if you do halftone black ink for the dark gray. money saver and it still looks good.

    just a thought.

  5. Nate - Nate Maggio avatar

    Nate said 10 months ago

    gausman said: cool idea. i actually like the way it looks and the string flows over the cans in your picture than on the mock-up. it could even benefit from some more cans and pictures. maybe a few can lids still laying around…

    Awesome idea. I will play around with it!

    Oliver said: I don’t think pitching a design to someone not expecting it is lame at all. You just have to find the right person to talk to. I was actually thinking of working something up and pitching it as well.

    Nice. When I contacted them, I felt more like a fanboy than an artist with a proposition. How do you be professional in this field of work? I have never really worked for clients outside of friends.

  6. derekdeal - Derek Deal avatar

    derekdeal said 10 months ago

    i think this is a cool idea and looks great so far. i think you need to keep in mind that your text is a string when you get into making your turns and angles. right now they come to a point when naturally they would be more rounded and loose. lose the ‘i’ dots too. i dont know if you want to go that literal, but it could make the illo look a lot better.

  7. mitchbones - Mitchell avatar

    mitchbones said 10 months ago

    Hope this gets printed! I hate you for making me say “That is legit” in real life.

  8. Nate - Nate Maggio avatar

    Nate said 10 months ago

    altairdesigns said: i think this is a cool idea and looks great so far. i think you need to keep in mind that your text is a string when you get into making your turns and angles. right now they come to a point when naturally they would be more rounded and loose. lose the ‘i’ dots too. i dont know if you want to go that literal, but it could make the illo look a lot better.

    I will try some new lettering with a more literal string feeling. Thanks for the tip.

    mitchbones said: Hope this gets printed! I hate you for making me say “That is legit” in real life.

    My job is done here. Haha.

  9. danecougarbrown - danecougarbrown avatar

    danecougarbrown said 10 months ago

    i love love love this design. this is such a smart and simple way to use an age old concept (the cans for phones).

    and i love iron and wine… so, double win!

  10. CultivatedLove - Mike avatar

    CultivatedLove said 7 months ago

    I like the string letters...

  11. anoel - Andrew Noël avatar

    anoel said 5 months ago

    awesome concept, put together well, good work

  12. Master_Control - Master Control Program avatar

    Master_Control said 4 months ago

    This is awesome! Super simple, but fun. Did you ever get any word from them?

  13. Nate - Nate Maggio avatar

    Nate said 4 months ago

    MasterControl said: This is awesome! Super simple, but fun. Did you ever get any word from them?

    No word at all. I sent out a bunch of emails too!

  14. thisisPRESTIGIOUS - william avatar

    thisisPRESTIGIOUS said 2 months ago

    i love it.

  15. Log In