Concept
The «Impulse» T-shirt is gear for those who traded sterile order for a booming bass in the tunnels. The print, featuring a nonconformist robot in pink glasses, is a manifesto of the underground megalopolis.
The print composition is built on the conflict between the center and the periphery. At the center is a portrait of a rave robot, but it is not monumental: the face is blurred, as if the signal is lost, and its gaze, seen through heavy pink glasses, looks beyond the wearer. The print does not attempt to be polished—it is deliberately assembled from «broken» fragments: paint splatters, cross-hatching, scraps of wiring, and metal mesh. It is a visual record of the interference that the system failed to filter.
The right side of the composition features a vertical column. Speakers, drawn with rough lines, descend toward the hem. They set the rhythm: the gaze sweeps across them from top to bottom, like the sound of bass breaking through the concrete. On the left are wires and fragments of lettering that trail off. The pink and black accents are not decorative—they are markers of a «hack»: pink represents the color of rebellion and neon, while black symbolizes a system failure.
Technical Specifications
Size — L, oversized.
Back length — 74 cm, chest width (laid flat) — 64 cm, sleeve length — 33 cm.
Material — 100% cotton, 240 g/m² density.
Color — off-white.
Chest Print:
Composition height — 340 mm, width — 280 mm from the bottom edge of the neckline. Centered on the chest.
Three-color print: black (main grunge), toxic pink (accents, glasses)
Printing technique — screen printing with a «torn» fill effect (unprinted edges).
Speakers (drivers):
Located on the right side of the print. Block height — 160 mm, width — 90 mm.
Wires and mesh:
Left side of the print, running from the portrait to the side seam. Line thickness — 2 to 6 mm.
Manufacturing Technology
Printing Technique: DTF (Direct-to-Film) — digital printing onto film followed by heat transfer. The chest print features a complex grunge structure with torn edges, splatters, and a «non-print» effect—DTF transmits these chaotic transitions without losing detail, unlike screen printing, which demands crisp boundaries and could not reproduce the semi-transparent glitch zones. Fine elements (wires, thin grid lines) remain legible after heat transfer. The print is executed on film with a white underlayer beneath the colored zones, so the design lays down densely and vibrantly even on a dingy white fabric background. Transferring it to the finished garment allows the composition to be placed precisely in the center of the chest without compromising the fit. The fabric’s 240 g/m² density prevents the print from sinking into the fibers, preserving contrast. The top layer of the film becomes matte after transfer, so the print does not have the look of a glossy sticker and visually integrates with the cotton texture.
