Zach Johnson
About: Zach is the art director and co-founder of the t-shirt company, Tank Theory, along with partner Andrew Silverman, which was started in 2001.
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Zach is the art director and cofounder of the t-shirt company, Tank Theory (www.tanktheory.com). He and partner Andrew Silverman started the company back in 2001, and Zach has been the general art man ever since.
"From creating the company logo, to website, to t-shirt designs, to hangtags, to catalogs, to hats, to embroideries and trims, I have had the opportunity to design for a whole slew of garment and print related stuff."
Essentially, Zach has been the creator and guardian of Tank Theory’s overall aesthetic and graphic direction from day one.
At the moment, Zach is underway with developing the Spring ’08 line of Tank Theory threads, titled Spirit. He’s also working on a side project with his partner, starting a belt buckle company called Death Metal Buckles, which is set to launch early next year.
Zach’s Wacom experience goes like this:
"I am super experienced (or should I say adept) at using the Wacom, although I have no idea what the buttons on the sides are used for."
Well, we’ll just have to see if he figured out the side buttons for his 2008 calendar month.
In my design work recently, I have been spending a lot of time on the themes of religions throughout the world and ideas on energy, the earth, and spirituality and how it affects us. This piece is coming from that mindset. I really wanted to create a stained glass piece that somehow contradicted the norm. Instead of life being depicted, as in normal stained glass works that sit in churches around the world, I wanted to depict death… an equally important side of life and the other side of the coin. I wanted to almost commemorate or celebrate death, the way you would with life. Not to be morbid, but death is a fact of life and it will eventually claim us all. With that being said, for me, it’s time to come to grips with death and celebrate it just like you would living. And of course the month I designed for was October, so skulls fit right in with Halloween and the whole dying of one season and the beginning of another.
I created a rough of the artwork in photoshop using various references of stained glass. After the general compositional elements were set, I imported the image into Illustrustar and put the Wacom tablet to work. By hand, I traced all the shapes of the stained glass, essentially vectorizing it and composing the final work.
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Love your work it’s amazing. I checked out your website. Lots of cool stuff I’ll be back to check out more…
I think your artwork delivers a loud message to people and I love it. I hope they listen.
Yeah Zach!
Interesting. I like the cutouts. Excellent imagination.
Beautiful piece of work!
Especially the consistency in the details of the work, without getting boring & repetitive… standing ovation!
Awesome work, Zach. You’re obviously very talented and hard working. This piece is amazing-good luck in the contest.
Of all the images that have been coming through my e-mail during the “power of the pens” campaign, yours stopped me in my tracks. I had actually deleted the page, as I usually do that to most junk mail I receive. The image, however, snapped me back to my deleted items box, and I gave it a well deserved look. Fine work! I see that wallpaper is offered, so I grabbed one. I enjoyed the short bio and description of your thoughts on the piece. I will be hitting your site to check it out soon. Have a great holiday, man!
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Awesome! I totally love it!
Hey man, great piece and combination of two iconic elements that I don’t believe I’ve ever seen together in the past. Ditto on what Wayne Miller says, below.
If you are into death as a celebration, you would love Mexico’s Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) celebration in late Oct. early Nov. The festivities and candle lit graveside memorials that last all night long are very unique to its indigenous population.
There’s some info on my blog on this at http://www.TheThoughtDump.com.
Keep up the good work.
This is serious work. Got the wallpaper. I can appreciate views from a different angle than the norm. Keep it proper mang. Ez.
I’ve been receiving alot of e-mails from Wacom to check things out.I’m very pleased that I did!Great mosaic Zach!Extremely intracate in design.I also check out Tanktheory and I like your products!I’m a BIG GUY though.The biggest T-Shirt I could find as 2xxL.Gotta make them bigger for the BIG People of the World!OK?Just a suggestion!Thanks for the ART,Mr. Artist!
Marty
Hi Zach,
I just love your stained glass work.
“Mosaic of Death” When I look at your artwork I’m hypothesized.
As Wayne Miller said, of all the Power of the Pens emails, yours is the one that made me say woah. wow.
Nice image but it isn’t a mosaic, it’s stained glass. Very different.
Zach, I really enjoy the duality expressed in this piece. Religion can evoke a lot of emotions and I think while this piece is so amazingly detailed and beautiful, it has a slightly morbid side with the skull. As a nurse, I see death too frequently and agree that it is an important part of life that should be seen for it’s beauty an as a final “peace” of life. Great work and keep it coming. I can’t wait for the spring line on Tank Theory (and more women’s clothes!)
He Zach! Very amazing.
It’s very interesting to take time to look for many details through your work.
Congrat!
Francois
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