Eley Kishimoto, New Future Graphic and Timothy Everest — it's a match made in shirt heaven. Read on for a glimpse at TEK, the first in a series of sartorial assignations for the trio...
Bespoke tailoring, gorgeous pattern design and sharp art direction — what more could the dapper gent about town want from a shirt? In a head-turning collaboration between Eley Kishimoto, New Future Graphic and tailor Timothy Everest you get all three. It's part one of an ongoing project by this impressive triumvirate, entitled TEK.
The TEK project oozes high craft values and attention to detail. British fashion mavericks Eley Kishimoto’s specially designed illustrative pattern prints are hand screen-printed on to cotton in its Brixton studio. The fabric then travels to Timothy Everest’s atelier in Shorditch, where it is made into garments. The TEK enterprise is art directed by graphic design studio New Future Graphic, which has created a brand identity derived from pattern-cutting symbolism. When the customer receives his shirt it arrives wrapped in a heavy-duty paper sack, hand-printed by the designers in their studio. “we have stripped back the aesthetic in favour of a raw, utilitarian feel which lets the product speak loudest,” say the designers.
New Future Graphic worked with set stylist Tara Holmes on lookbook images for the TEK shirt range, continuing a witty nod to the utilitarian flavour with display units made of materials like scaffolding, batons, rope, cable ties, and buckets.
tek-project.co.uk
New Future Graphic
Eley Kishimoto
Timothy Everest