Unique T-Shirts - AKU-Wear.com

[Wasabie]

Wollte hier mal die zähne auf unser kleines T-Shirt Projekt aufmerksam machen welches seit 2006 stätig wächst. Hier ein kleiner Auszug aus der Streetwear Today Ausgabe vom April 2008

www.aku-wear.com

Indeed, these four long-time friends (Sebastian, Iskender, Frederik and Felix, all from Paderborn, Germany), who run the label in addition to their regular jobs, offer their customers real individual shirts: AKUwear releases 250 limited hand-numbered tees for every edition. Each one has its own number, stitched on the left sleeve, making 250 unique shirts. "We wanted to offer something to the people that is artistically unique and that has its origin in our attitude to fashion, lifestyle and art. At the same time we forcefully ignored any thought of profit and image," says Felix.

This uniqueness is manifested in the AKU-owners club. All the people who have an AKU-product can express themselves on the label´s webpage with a photo, which makes a nice, playful gallery.

One of the main reasons for the foundation of the label, in 2006, was the love for the art and designs of their fellow friend, Thorsten Hasenkamm. Thorsten is an internationally recognized artist who has already successfully participated in art exhibitions with his cartoons and lowbrow art. His styles have a very unique charm and always a fine sense of humor. All prints on the AKUwear-shirts are made by Thorsten, and you can also get some of his lovely art-prints from their website.
For the future, on top of the great art from Mr. Hasenkamm, AKU is looking for new artist to build a platform for their works. Furthermore, they`re about to design a lady-wear range, so we`re really looking forward to see their new stuff!

[Devil24]

Ohne den Leuten zu nahe treten zu wollen - braucht man für die paar Shirts nen Creative Director, nen Head Designer, nen Operations Director, nen Sales Manager
und nen PR Manager?

Kein Wunder, daß ich nix verkaufe...

[Wasabie]

wir sind einfach n paar freunde die das machen. Es kommen ständig neue Shirts dazu.... Um das alles neben den regulären Jobs zu betreiben muss schon ein gewisser Aufwand betrieben werden