I’ve always wanted to make my own version of a Crass shirt, as they’re one of the few bands from my teen years that I still listen to quite frequently and hold close to my heart as huge influences in many things such as music, art, and philosophy. I don’t think I’ve ever learned as much from a band as I did Crass. Seriously. And so much that I still enjoy repping them through t-shirt from time-to-time, but have become bored with the black shirt/white ink designs you often find at record stores or through distros. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for wearing their message as it was intended, and love their use of black, symbolically, but who says you can’t add a little color to your punk wardrobe? Right? And since the shirts you find are all bootlegged anyway — why can’t the printers toss in a few colored shirts for the folks who’ve graduated from the black tee? Well, I took it into my own hands and printed a few on some color. Up the punx!
As for the design, it was made up of a block of the cross logo (5x4, rowsxcrosses), which we printed on a few colored (olive green and heather grey) shirts with red ink. Our emulsion process got a little messed up, which we were bummed on at first but later realized that it might look just as cool, of not cooler kind of messed up and distorted. Maybe we’ll fix the screen and run a proper batch, but for now the three we did were good enough fo’sho.
