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SMASH UP XV – Track Bike

by Mo on August 7, 2008

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Are gas prices finally motivating you to commute another way? Especially this time of year while the sun is shining and the snow is not flying. This month’s Student SMASH UP can either remind you to commute another way OR help you suggest it to the world; better yet, buy one for someone who drives their car around the block to the coffee shop, grocery store, post office etc.

This month we stick around the Pacific Northwest with a tee for the guy’s -and maybe the gals?- from Nathan Coyne out in Portland, Oregon. Nathan is a junior at Portland Community College prepping to transfer to PNCA, and this tee is an ode to his track bike – we love it!


I have been printmaking for about 3 years now and I really love it, hopefully I will be able to do it full-time as a career one day. I always like to draw things that I enjoy doing, riding bikes, etc. Since I’ve never gotten my drivers license I end up riding my bike everywhere and that made me want to make a shirt about my fixed gear. I like to create images for areas that I think need more exposure, stuff that I think matters.

Click on any of the pics in this post to open up these images and see how crispy clean Nathan’s print is, and head into the SMASH store to see the barcode on the back. Eco-brown in color, this tee is the earth friendly version of a vintage heather classic from Alternative Apparel, an organic cotton and recycled-poly blend. This tee is also unisex – um, gals you may want to be careful where those bike wheels end up! – we think it looks rockin’ on both of our models above. By the way, a Darling thank you to Barbara and Logan who we stole from work one sunny afternoon in Chester, CT this week! Thanks as well to the talented Whosiepie for these shots.

Thanks again to Nathan, for his super speedy printing, here he is on a recent trip hanging out at Yosemite.

Don’t forget his shirts, and all the student SMASH UP garments, are limited edition and only to be found at Smashing Darling. Check them all out here, an if you know any student printmakers, send them our way! Email mo@smashingdarling.com.

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SMASH UP XIIII – Sixties Salon

by Mo on July 16, 2008

There’s nothing better than a pink girlie tank for hot summer days! For number fourteen in our student SMASH UP series we go west, all the way to Portland, Oregon. This fall Adriana Lenarczyk will be a junior at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland. Sometimes you have to search for things in life, and other times good things just find their way to you. Adriana has been searching for a major that was a good fit – from Psychology to Studio Art to Graphic Design, until she finally found her current major – Printmaking. Her favorite techniques are intaglio, or copper plate etching, and screenprinting.


Adriana has been inspired by feminist art lately and right now really interested in the work of Kiki Smith, Barbara Kruger, and her teacher MK Guth. The design for this fun, pink summer tank is a photo transfer of a 60s salon chair that found it’s way into Adriana’s life via Goodwill:

“For this design, I was just playing with 6 color prints for class, and I came upon this sweet vintage salon chair that I found at the Goodwill for 20 bucks. Still works by the way! Anyway I put it on my porch. The girls who live downstairs and I sit in it with drinks, and it’s just so girly and the epitome of that kind of “please me” attitude that I found deliciously feminine!”
This 100% cotton ribbed beater tank is one of the top 10 styles for women over at Alternative Apparel. Adriana printed the barcode right up top on the back of the tank, see how the sunlight sparkles on it above! Many thanks to Sydney for modeling – does she look familiar? Maybe you saw her in her own indie dress in the blog…send us any pictures of you mixing up your indie, we love to feature you! More details here.

SMASH UP XV coming soon on August 7th.
Until then, stay smashing and
have a great day!

~ the Darling’s

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