UK LIMITED EDITION T-Shirt Drop!

UK LIMITED EDITION T-Shirt Drop by  DougFreshOne!

Ever since the London Family brought us into their lives, into their homes, and shared experiences in this thing we all love and do, it's been a constant source of inspiration for me, observing the creative expressions of our London Fam. In particular, my admiration for Tom "Fatty" Webster's clean and bold graff styles showing up on all things Rucktion + LBU has been a constant inspiration and guidepost for me in balancing personal style and legibility in my letter forms. Tom and I operate on the same standards and principles of representing our passion in hardcore through its deeply intertwined history with graffiti, producing artwork that is hand-drawn for our own bands, and for everyone else's bands, for that matter! Tom's style is one of my absolute favorite styles. I wanted to make a clean handstyle STOUT, written with a chisel-tip marker, for the front of the shirt. It makes me think of a classic Ninebar shirt I have, the one that is just pure handstyle, written with a marker. As Matty Ninebar put it when describing that particular shirt: "It's written with indelible ink!" The STOUT handstyle front is also in dedication to Scotty P, who ALWAYS wrote in his recognizable handstyle — "NGMF 22" — on the walls of no matter where he found himself in the world. The design on the back is a graff "S" that I had been working on for some time. I wanted to make an "S" that incorporates a straight razor in some part of the structure of the "S". The razor is in an open position. The tang/tail and pivot pin function as the top part of the "S", as the blade continues through, flaring out in sharp style up towards the left, ending at a very sharp reverse tanto. Draped across the lower half of the "S", a banner with STOUT burned into it. Between the tattered hanging ends of the banner, in my handstyle, is written "IN AETERNUM 22". Eternally, Forever, 22. We love you and miss you, Scotty P.

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