{"id":4089,"date":"2024-04-13T05:18:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T09:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/?p=4089"},"modified":"2025-05-11T05:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T09:37:08","slug":"alessandro-cortini-us-tour-t-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/13\/alessandro-cortini-us-tour-t-shirt\/","title":{"rendered":"alessandro cortini, US tour t-shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1192\" height=\"1192\" src=\"https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/mockup_front_square.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/mockup_front_square.jpg 1192w, https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/mockup_front_square-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/mockup_front_square-640x640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/mockup_front_square-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/mockup_front_square-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1192px) 100vw, 1192px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>old friend <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alessandro_Cortini\">alessandro cortini<\/a> asked us to make a custom t-shirt for his 2024 &#8220;nati infiniti&#8221; tour of north america. years ago alessandro and caspar realized they had a shared love of certain bands, one of which was the late 80s american rock band, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extreme_(band)\">extreme<\/a>. to this end alessandro knew who to approach with an idea he had for a new tour t-shirt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1966\" src=\"https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/front_flat-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/front_flat-1.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/front_flat-1-320x315.jpg 320w, https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/front_flat-1-640x629.jpg 640w, https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/front_flat-1-768x755.jpg 768w, https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/front_flat-1-1536x1510.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>what you see here is a custom version of the artwork for extreme&#8217;s most famous album, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extreme_II:_Pornograffitti\">extreme II: pornograffitti<\/a>. the brilliant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johndelucca.com\">john delucca<\/a> painted the the entire piece, including the custom typography, from scratch. in doing so, under alessandro&#8217;s guidance, john swapped in alessandro&#8217;s likeness and various other parts of alessandro&#8217;s life and work to replace the original early 90s artwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1192\" height=\"1192\" src=\"https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/mockup_back_square.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/mockup_back_square.jpg 1192w, https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/mockup_back_square-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/mockup_back_square-640x640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/mockup_back_square-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/mockup_back_square-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1192px) 100vw, 1192px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>caspar took care of the typographic elements on the back of the shirt and prepared the files for printing. the shirt was printed in a limited edition of 144. you can read comments on the shirt\u2019s concept and design from alessandro\u2019s friends and fans\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C3293yPO7j7\/?img_index=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>we hope those of you that managed to snag a shirt are enjoying its many facets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>old friend alessandro cortini asked us to make a custom t-shirt for his 2024 &#8220;nati infiniti&#8221; tour of north america. years ago alessandro and caspar realized they had a shared love of certain bands, one of which was the late 80s american rock band, extreme. to this end alessandro knew who to approach with an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[395,17,789,171,105,1129,1127,1128,199,535],"class_list":["post-4089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grafiks-v","category-news-v","tag-alessandro-cortini","tag-design","tag-extreme","tag-john-delucca","tag-music","tag-nati-infiniti","tag-pornograffitti","tag-shirt","tag-t-shirt","tag-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4089"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4107,"href":"https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions\/4107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versionindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}