Submission - T-Shirt

Original 1989 TDR Tee for Submission Records. Most of the work for Jon Crossley (Le Croix) and Graeme Park’s label was done during the twilight years where we were still making stuff using primitive design software (early Freehand / Claris Works / Hypercard) and outputting via a local bureau (delivered to by hand on a floppy disk and collected as output on bromide paper). Output scaled via PMT camera in dark room (or sometimes photocopied etc) and pasted up as mechanical artwork — There’s around 6 overlays just to create this one 2D design with different levels of blurring / Half-toning / sizing etc. 

This tee is an adaptation of the cover we did for the 1989 label sampler Submit To The Beat’ featuring some of Graem’s rarer mxes.

Here’s an after-dinner did you know fact… Submission was a sister project to Derby (then Nottingham’s) Square Dance Studios. When Tim Andrews approached us to design logos and other stuff for the studio we were paid in Apple Macs as his day job was as a computer dealer. For the initial Square Dance work we got a MacSE, a MacII with monitor, a Kurta graphics tablet (still never used), Pixel Paint and Claris Works. We also got a Commodore 64 with a camera thing and tripod for scanning (pre-commercial scanners). We never used the Commodore thing as we got Phil Wolstenholme to do the images for us… and we didn’t really use the Mac stuff for 6 months until we had some students on who ‘had Macs at college’. They showed us Aldous Freehand… and that changed our (and your) world.