Chris Phillips (cpdesign)

Tangled Web (For Sale)

Chris Phillips (cpdesign) — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 09:35:01 -0700

A design created for the Threadless Spiderman competition where you had to show Spiderman taking on one of his villains. I tried to make it have a watercolor and comic book style to it and giving more focus on Spiderman.

Supermodel (For Sale)

Chris Phillips (cpdesign) — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 09:27:06 -0700

Another design created for the Threadless Disney Toy Story competition. I tried to make it look like Buzz was in pieces as a model and he comes to life and uses his trustee laser and super strength to break free and glue himself together.

Universal Star (For Sale)

Chris Phillips (cpdesign) — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 09:19:29 -0700

This design was created for the Disney Toy Story competition on Threadless. I always thought of Buzz Lightyear as the star of the show and thought it would be cool to make him his own star constellation.

Animal Prints (For Sale)

Chris Phillips (cpdesign) — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 09:04:51 -0700

This was designed for the GAP clever challenge on Threadless. People are known for wearing animal prints because of there cool patterns, these are a few animals that wanted to wear our patterns.

Weapon of Choice (For Sale)

Chris Phillips (cpdesign) — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 08:58:44 -0700

I wanted to create a humorous parody design, so I decided to create a James Bond 007 design with the monkey holding a banana as his weapon of choice.

Jukebox Hero (For Sale)

Chris Phillips (cpdesign) — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 10:46:22 -0700

My idea was to combine music and robots together and created a hero out of random musical equipment from today and the past. I call him Jukebox Hero and he's giving a concert tour to his fans.

Sound Wave (For Sale)

Chris Phillips (cpdesign) — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 10:41:18 -0700

This is my literal interpretation of the childhood theory that if you hold your ear up to a sea shell you can hear the ocean. It was designed for the Simple competition on Threadless.

Swan Song (For Sale)

Chris Phillips (cpdesign) — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 10:34:51 -0700

A design created for the Simple competition on Threadless which is an abstract image of a swan that also resembles a music note sitting in what looks like rippling water, but is also a record.

The Peacemaker (For Sale)

Chris Phillips (cpdesign) — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 10:31:23 -0700

My concept for the Politically themed Vote Bright competition on Threadless is about whether you are for or against the support of war we all still want peace in the world. The dove symbolizing peace and literally pulling together a broken world by sewing it together with ribbon and making a peace symbol.

Got the Blues (For Sale)

Chris Phillips (cpdesign) — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 10:13:20 -0700

Music inspires emotion from happiness, sadness or even anger and can bring about great things. This was my design for the Gap competition on Threadless, a scene of an old school blues band who when they play the music flows up to the clouds and comes down as rain or like a sheet of music.

Whale of a Time (For Sale)

Chris Phillips (cpdesign) — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 10:07:48 -0700

This was originally designed for a t-shirt competition on Threadless for a simple design. Dolphins are known for stealing the show and always being the popular one of the sea. In my design for the Gap contest, I decided to show the whales having a good time doing some aerial acrobatics for them to shine in the spotlight for once.

Aerial Perspective (For Sale)

Chris Phillips (cpdesign) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:30:26 -0800

This design was initially created for a friend of mine who is a photographer and he liked my flying penguin design so he thought it would work well as a shirt design. The concept is simply a flying rooster getting some aerial perspective for his latest pictures.

Cuckoo Quack (For Sale)

Chris Phillips (cpdesign) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:24:45 -0800

Donald Duck is a crazy duck with multiple personalities. Some might call him cuckoo. Thought it'd be funny to have him popping out if of cuckoo clock in place of the bird. This was another concept for the threadless donald duck competition.

Quack Therapy (For Sale)

Chris Phillips (cpdesign) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:19:48 -0800

Donald Duck is known for his temper and needs some serious anger management therapy. Dr. Scrooge McDuck is here to help, but he's nothing but a gold digger. It doesn't help that chip n dale are around pushing his buttons. It was designed for a threadless donald duck competition.

Heart Breakers (For Sale)

Chris Phillips (cpdesign) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:12:20 -0800

This design was created for a threadless pin up competition and I thought it would be fun to create a vintage looking roller derby, comic book, tattoo feel. They're called the heart breakers because they break guys hearts and girls bones in the rink.

Dusk till Dawn (For Sale)

Chris Phillips (cpdesign) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:50:43 -0800

Two hunters, one at night, one during the day. I decided to draw the owl and hawk in photoshop paired up next to each other but splitting the design in half with the color. The drawing is somewhat gestured style and the color is made to look painted.

Night and Day (For Sale)

Chris Phillips (cpdesign) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:39:41 -0800

Out Arrr...med (For Sale)

Chris Phillips (cpdesign) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:52:02 -0800

A greedy, giant octopus pirate bullying his way in battle, taking out soldiers and rendering them defenseless to his stronger yet out numbered eight arms. He steals their loot and stashes it away on his own private island to turn into trophies he can wear.

Bad Reception (For Sale)

Chris Phillips (cpdesign) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:40:34 -0800

Too much TV will fry your brain is what I was always told as a kid. I decided to make a shirt based on that idea, but make it look like a 1950's movie poster style. It also reminded me of the War of the Worlds movie which also inspired me to make it have a post apocalyptic feel.

Epic Adventure (For Sale)

Chris Phillips (cpdesign) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:31:58 -0800

This design was originally created for a t-shirt competition on threadless for the upcoming Muppets movie. Watching the Muppets as a kid, their stories have all been about these epic adventures that are almost dreamlike and fun involving the whole crew. I tried to incorporate a few of them in a unique way having one of these types of adventures.