Thanks for all of the support throughout 2011. I hope you will continue to follow me on this Tecknicolor journey that will help to lead both you and I towards our dreams in 2012.
Home of the Sole has a “Santa’s Sneaker Drop” giveaway going on right now. They’re giving away a free pair of Air Jordan 11 “Concords” and Air Jordan 3 “Black Cements”, along with two Tecknicolor tees: the Concord Cola Tee and the Tecknicolor Circus: Greatest Show on Mars Tee in Black. Find out how to win.
Concord Friday is also the day the Concord 11′s Tee’s are available for presale with a free, but very limited custom shirt. This is why it’s named Concord Friday otherwise known as Black Friday. Take advantage.
I’m long overdue for introducing the shirt for the release for the Retro Jordan Concord 11′s, that come out next month for Christmas. I have to say that these shoes are my holy grails. They are my all time favorite sneakers. I have purchased them every single time they’ve released and, of course, I will be getting the 2011 versions as well.
This is the very first shirt to feature the sheep mascot. I’m not sure if I intended for it to happen that way. I design so many things so much of the time, that I sometimes don’t remember that a lot of you don’t get to see the other yet to be or never to be released designs. So for me this is one of many.
The text on the shirt says “Concord wishes and Tecknicolor dreams”. I got that from the slogan of the show Lifestyles of the Rich and Famaous. Every episode the British dude used to say “Champagne wishes and caviar dreams” (he had a very distinct voice and I can do a great impression). Because the shoes design was inspired by spats which were popularly worn in the 30′s and 40′s by gangsters (at least in the movies), tuxedo wearers and other fancy clothing types, the shoe is often thought of in close ties with formal wear. Formal wear makes me think of fancy people, doing fancy things, wearing fancy pants. So, this is what brought me to this slogan.
Seeing as how I don’t drink and know nothing about champagne, I wasn’t able to come up with anything very clever that actually related to champagne or caviar for that matter. However, I did have this pic I took of a vintage coke machine on my phone in Cracker Barrel from a while ago. Who would believe one of my random useless pics would be useful later? The thing that stood out in my mind were the words “ICE COLD”. As you know one of the key selling points of any Jordan 11 colorway is the icy sole. So I thought I was really on to something. So, after pushing out a kazillion Coke inspired designs that I’m much to lazy to post right now. I remembered this:
The infamous Karl Lagerfeld, head designer for Chanel, designed a Coke bottle featuring his silhouette, wearing his signature black as white garb. How can you get any fancier than Karl Lagerfeld?
I replaced Karl with my sheep mascot as fancy tuxedo wearing waiter. He’s carrying a tray with a Concord Cola bottle in an X shaped bucket of ice. The ice is the same color of the soles of the Concord 11′s on his feet. Beside the X ice bucket is a champagne fluke which is an I…..and there you haave the Concord Jordan 11′s design.
This shirt will be up for presale on Concord (Black) Friday. If you order this shirt during the presale period you will also receive a custom tee with your name on it. The Unike’d College Fund shirt. There are only a certain amount available for free with the Concord Cola tee and after those are gone the Concord tees will be sold alone.
Updates, information, possible giveaways, all available through Twitter and Facebook. So follow, like, friend, ect.
To everyone who won the contests and ordered through the presale your shirts are coming soon. A mishap came about and I wasn’t able to pick up the shirts today, but they are finished and will be shipped out shortly. Of course I will be keeping you updated with any additional information. The pic above are of the packaging supplies ready to be used as soon as I get the tees in hand. Thanks for your patience.
The winners have been chosen and notified. The shirts will be shipped out at the same time all those who pre-ordered. Congrats to Paul and Jessica!
I’m considering doing another one for the Concord 11′s tee (which has yet to be revealed). So keep posted and feel free to offer feedback and ask questions.
Thanks guys for the participation and support.
In the spirit of the “Three’s” theme, you will be able to win one shirt each of the three major social networking sites: Tumblr, Facebook, or Twitter. So that means there will be three winner, one per site. Here’s how the contest works:
The winners will receive, their choice of ONE (not all three) of the “Three’s Tees” shirts.The shirts are available in S, M, L, XL, 2XL, & 3XL.
The contest will end November 13th @ 9PM EASTERN TIME. Your free shirt will be shipped to you when all the shirts are finished being printed. Please contact me with any questions. Good luck!
Heir Jordan is a new site that, as the video shows, is going to give us a glimpse into the life of Michael Jordan’s sons, Marcus and Jeffery Jordan. I guess they’re capitalizing on the hype that surrounds them based on their dad and from the looks of this video they’re going to include sneaker features as well. I saw this video on Nice Kicks first and I saw a lot of negative comments. If they don’t mind the slight invasion of privacy, then I don’t see what’s wrong with actually giving the people what they want and are going to ask for anyway. Everybody represents their own personal brand in someway or another (yes even you and me). The hype around them is never going to go away, so their personal brand has almost been partially created for them. As a business minded individual this seems like a natural progression into them creating their own sense of self, professionally, personally, and as I said, business wise. Also the name is pure genius.
I wanted to remind everyone that the Three’s Tee’s Presale is still going on throughout this month. So I decided to post up random three’s pics. Enjoy….
Photo Credit: BryantDIGITAL
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