Year: 2018
Client/band: Turisas
Country: Finland
Mediums: T-shirt
Official release date: May 2018
Concept: Byzantine, battle, for Japan tour
Client/band: Turisas
Country: Finland
Mediums: T-shirt
Official release date: May 2018
Concept: Byzantine, battle, for Japan tour
Design for a limited T-shirt of Finnish 'battle metal' band Turisas' Japan tour 2018.
It's a simple design, but its concept is meaningful for the tour. The style of the band have Byzantium and battle elements strongly. So I made the main part of the design into a Byzantine-style typography with one Chinese character '戦' (ikusa/sen) meaning 'battle' and 'war' in Japanese.
This design is just limited for the Japan tour and Japanese fans of the band, but was a challenge how to use a Chinese character (kanji) on T-shirt for Japanese people nicely. Because, to us Japanese people, a T-shirt with any Chinese character and Japanese letters looks almost like a joke or weird foreign-designed item, especially designed with common typefaces.
I have always though that it could be interesting and cool if the band uses the Chinese character '戦' for something. Finally the chance came, I came up with this design. And after the last show of the tour, thankfully I heard from the band that the T-shirts were sold out.
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