An epic story for a simple skateboard crash! Truly a strange sort of deal going on here in this box-o-shirt we were sent to review by LTD Tee! Inside a nondescript white plastic bag came a lovely cardboard box decorated with a hand-printed silkscreen in brown ink. The design uses both the illustration seen on the shirt inside as well as an epic tale of the artist/designer. Inside the box is a tiny stash of high-quality stickers as well as another bag, transparent with instructions, containing the shirt. The shirt itself is branded exclusively with the “LTD Tee” logo, printed inside the shirt above, again, the story of the artist Porous Walker.

The shirt itself contains a lovingly applied giant illustration of a helluva crash of skateboards as illustrated by Walker. It’s printed in a bright yellow and a medium brown. Reminds me of a hotdog covered in mustard.

NOTE: This is an official Concrete Stairs Review. Here at World Famous Design Junkies we strive to bring you not only the most awesome reviews because of totally detailed descriptions, but also because of strange locations. For another example, check out this Eyepatch Post which of course takes place on a cat’s scratching post.

Solid colors, cool illustration, screen-print application inside and out. Evenly applied, no mis-steps. No tags, just ink. Very excellent. Also there’s a print! a rather simple box-sized digital print you could totally put up on yer wall.

Now for that epic description! Here’s the text that’s printed inside the shirt and outside the box, a wild tale of the life and times of the artist Porous Walker:

Porous Walker was a man. Not just a man, but a man’s man. He had drawings all across the land, bright ones, with rainbows, penises, and very crooked teeth. The pieces made people smile, even laugh, and sometimes, they even made a man cry.

He showed with other artists, and sometimes solo, in places like Switzerland and the Lower Haight. He was written about in Juxtapoz’, Fecal Faces, and other pieces of papers. He drew his Facebook page on a 20 foot long piece of paper, based on a dream and the language of the French.

Then one day, Porous Walker wanted to be the second oldest married man to sail solo around the Cape of Good Hope. It was an ambitious trip, one he planned and trained six days for. He set sail from Seattle, Washington on July 11, and in his first, and last blog post from his boat, The Alan Bamberger, Porous told the people of world that he was happy to have known thee. And that was the last we heard of Porous Jimmy Walker.

LTD Tee is the rather self-explanitory brand name of an awesome group of people that print and ship artist-and-designer-designed t-shirts, all originating from here: http://ltdtee.net/. They’ve got an easy-to-use system for purchase, coupons for their products rather regularly, and YES!- A COUNTDOWN METER to show you when the next item gets released! I lub it!

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