Snowboard t-shirt in comic style: a snowboarder in an orange jacket rides head-on out of the powder toward you, turquoise peaks behind him. Optional: a deep turn on the back, goggles and crossed boards on the sleeves.
Product description
The price includes the front print. Add the back and sleeves above under “Print”.
This snowboard t-shirt is for everyone who checks the snow report weeks before the lifts open and dreams of fresh powder on the morning after a big storm. On the chest a snowboarder comes straight at you: head-on, crouched low, board first, as if he were about to ride right out of the picture and over your shoes. Powder sprays up in big white clouds on both sides, and behind him a jagged mountain range rises into the sky. The design is done in a bold comic style, with strong inky outlines, fine hatching and a handful of punchy colors, and it carries no lettering, logo or place name.
You never see the rider's face, and that is exactly why anyone can see themselves in him. He wears a dark, glossy helmet and big goggles with a turquoise frame, their mirrored lens catching streaks of turquoise and orange. A dark mask covers his mouth and chin. The hood of a roomy orange jacket frames the helmet, its folds picked out in dark strokes, with a zipper running down the middle. The straps of a dark backpack sit over his shoulders, joined by a narrow chest strap. He holds both arms wide to the sides, and his dark gloves, fingers curled, almost reach into the clouds of snow.
Below him the board pushes out of the frame: huge, foreshortened as if seen through a wide-angle lens, turquoise with two jagged orange bands that look like flames or lightning, and finished with a dark edge. Above it you see his front leg in dark teal pants, with a cushion of snow still sitting on the shin. Powder bursts out to both sides, white with pale blue shadows, and small clumps of snow fly through the air between the clouds. Behind him stands the mountain range: four sharp peaks in turquoise and white, the tallest rising just to the right of his head, the lowest on the far right. Dark hatching gives the slopes their rock and ridges, so the mountains feel cold and rugged while the orange jacket in front of them glows like a signal.
Add a back print and the same rider appears there in full swing, this time from the side. He is crouched deep in a turn to the right, his rear hand stretched far out to the left, his front hand hanging just above the snow, and the board runs down to the lower right with a turquoise nose. Behind him a huge cloud of powder piles up, and out of it a wide white trail winds in long curves all the way up to the peaks, like the line he has just carved into the slope. At the top stand turquoise mountains, a tall group in the middle and two smaller peaks to the left, and at the lower left two angular turquoise chunks tumble through the air. Both sleeves can be printed too, each with a small emblem: ski goggles with a mirrored lens in front of two crossed boards in turquoise and orange, framed by bursting snow. The two sleeve emblems mirror each other, with the reflections in the lens falling a little differently on each.
Who wears this snowboard t-shirt? The friend who opens every season on the very first gondola. The coworker who reads the latest snowfall totals out loud at the office in October. The dad who bought his kid a first board and has been riding again every winter since. As a gift for snowboarders it works for Christmas, a birthday, passing the instructor exam or the countdown to a shared week in the mountains. It is the shirt for the drive up, the evening in the cabin and all the weeks without snow when you still want to show where your heart belongs.
About the snowboard t-shirt itself: it is cotton, and its heathered shades are blended with polyester, anywhere from a sliver to half depending on the tone. Each shirt is printed digitally, and only after you have ordered. The front rider comes on every shirt; the back scene and the sleeve emblems join him only if those areas are ticked at checkout. Dark fabric makes the white snow and the orange jacket pop, and pale shirts let the inky linework and the turquoise peaks hold the image together. With no resort, rider or brand named anywhere, the picture belongs to whichever slope you think of first.
