Artevist
edition #6 - More than just T-shirts
Artevist is for people who love T-shirts: wearing them, designing them, and talking about them. Most importantly, it's a place for people who believe that T-shirts are a great way to communicate one's views and in some very small, individual way, move others to action. Artevist is for those who believe real change will only occur when activism is fashionably 'in' and complacency is decidedly 'out'.
I've always loved awesome T-shirt graphics, but let's face it, very few have much meaning or purpose and most want to sell you something. With so much happening in the world today, it seemed the opportunity to use design to really communicate important themes was being lost.
Artevist is a community where artists can come together to share their ideas on BIG issues and create wearable art with meaning and purpose. The BIG issues can be local or global (everything is related) and they can span themes such as: AIDS, climate change, consumerism, extinction, human rights and pollution. It's also a place where nonprofit organizations and artists meet, and produce work that helps spread their message to a larger audience.
The concept is simple. Artists compete in open, peer-review T-shirt design contests. All Artevist members can vote for their favourites and leave comments. The most popular submissions are reproduced on organic Tees (bamboo, hemp or cotton), which are ecologically and ethically produced and sourced. See Our T-shirts
We're a for-profit company, but without any aspirations or intentions of becoming a mega-brand. We think the world needs more art, not more brands. We'll be donating a good portion of sales to environmental and social causes and are now looking into various options.
So look around. Participate. Enjoy!
Contact Us
General enquires:
email: info@framelines.orgSubmissions
email: submissions@framelines.orgSponsorship and Advertising enquires
email: sponsor@framelines.orgNewsletter Submissions
email: newsletter@framelines.orgMusic
email: laura@framelines.org
'Our ability to live in peace with each other, depends first and foremost on our ability to accept all that is different between us'
"We wish to create new possibilities for artistic relationships and cultural exchange, supporting artists at all levels in the development of their craft. Frame Lines offers a unique access to a dynamic world of print and new media, like yourselves to the belief that art, writing and creative expression matter.
It doesn’t matter how the literal (by conventional definitions) quality of a piece of work is gauged, as long as we are convinced that you ripped a chunk of your soul and bared it to the world (with your eyes closed tight and heart as open as the sky), then you’ve earned your moment of marvel; your glitter of fairy dust; your glow of twilight in our world of darkness and lightness. And by whatever’s sacred, we’ll help you celebrate it"