High Fidelity - Addict 94 Originals Black

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NEW Slimmer Fit Addict Retro Tee.

Based on our first ever 'hand dyed original' tees complete with white shoulder and back neck stitching. Garment washed finish.

Addict X Swifty retro music graphic print 160g 100% cotton premium jersey tee.

'High Fidelity - Addict 94 Originals' Originals' front placement screen print with aged cracked ink finish.

Back neck print detail.

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ADDICT BEATS COLLECTIVE X SWIFTY
94' Retro Fit Washed Tees

Back in '94 when we were first printing Addict tees we'd buy in white blank tees and dye them to our chosen colours at the laundry. This series of tees 're-creates' the look of the first Addict 'hand dyed originals' right down to the white polyester stitching on the shoulders and hems that didn't used to take the dye colour.

Linking up with music design maestro Swifty to work on the screen prints, together we've produced a set of retro, music related graphics that reflect our musical loves and connections. From old stereophonic symbols through to jazz and reggae iconography, this Addict Beats Collective X Swifty series has been super garment washed on 160g cotton to give you that 'favourite tee' feel and the cracked ink prints add to the vintage vibes. Def with the record... 



Swifty

One of the true British graphic originators of our time, his work has been hugely influential in music and youth culture since he started out in the late 1980’s. Fresh from art school he landed a job at The Facemagazine under the watchful eye of Neville Brody, and later art directed its sister publication Arena for nearly a year. 

Since 1989 he has been art director of the highly acclaimed ‘Straight No Chaser’ magazine which has proved to be a brilliant vehicle for his unique fonts and graphic sensibility. In 1990 he set up ‘Swifty Typografix’  and for the next 5 years designed  hundreds of club flyers for London clubs dj’s and promoters like Gilles Peterson, Somethin’ Else and the Fridge in Brixton. 

Heavily tapped into the music scene at this time, Swifty designed the logos and identity for the influential label ‘Talkin Loud’ (A&R’d by Gilles Peterson) and was designing landmark record sleeves for bands such as the ‘Young Disciples’, ‘Incognito’ and Galliano. He designed the famous ‘Mo Wax’ logo and set up the labels aesthetic in the early days before migrating into TV and moving image design. Other labels to receive the Swifty touch have been ‘Source360’, B&W Music, Quango, Clear, Rice, Right Tempo, Clean up and ‘Island Records’. 

For nearly ten years he has designed the sleeves for Brazilian label ‘Far Out’ producing iconic sleeves for class acts such as ‘Azymuth’, ‘Joyce’ and ‘Marcos Valle’. More recently he’s been working with Japanese label ‘Especial’ and London based label “Freestyle’.