Fatal Justice T-Shirt

I must say I’ve spent almost zero time the past week doing any major site updates of any kind besides the When Every Sale Counts blog post and a few miscellaneous twitter posts.

I did however, finally move around our homepage to get a few more of you signed up for our monthly newsletter. It appears to be paying off at least a little bit since I’ve seen a slight increase in sign ups over the past few days. We were having some technical difficulties and for some reason people were able to sign up with invalid emails.

Here’s what’s been happening lately with Craig and myself at Assault

• Scoping out Black Friday deals – We haven’t had a special sale yet, but have one planned for a future date to corrrespond with a Shirt.Woot.com side deal of the day.
• Twitter friending and posting as often as we think of it
• Screen printing research – We’re working on doing some at home one color prints to see if we can do it at a feasible price point at home. Contact us if you’ve done this before.
• We’re now shipping our shirts for free! No order minimum required!
• Getting ready to release our December newsletter. Hopefully the unsubscribe link will work this time.
• Bought a 32in Emerson flat screen that I wrestled away from a crazy soccer mom–totally worth it.
• Re-ordered the Fatal Justice T-Shirts in both  black and white–get em while they last!
• Converted nearly our entire store’s javascript to JQuery. I love jquery.

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We’re proud to announce a new designer has been added to the family, Assault, Fernando Rodriguez. Fernando, formerly of Ecko, is currently in the preliminary stages of launching his own design agency called EyeKandy. He currently resides in New York, but will be moving back to Puerto Rico to dedicate his time to developing his new company EyeKandy.

The shirt he has designed for Assault comes in black and white and is called Fatal Justice. It features the classic underlying political message that Assault has become known for, as well as some of our favorite design motifs–skulls!!!

Fernando had the idea from his experience living under the Puerto Rican government. There’s alot of corruption, like in most governments, but especially in the Latin American governments. His other inspiration for the design comes from the current situation in Darfur. Some common themes in this design as well as in many other Assault designs are about how greed for power leads to killing and mass poverty among the working class.

The design’s major theme being about how there really is no more equal justice for the rich and the poor. Justice has just become a beautiful icon, and is no longer what it used to be. Fernando hand draws all of his designs, and then inks them and scans them into Illustrator. He uses live trace and later brings them into Photoshop to clean them up. The color palette is neutral based to further emphasize the grunge look to go along with his original idea for the concept.

Fernando is a graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design. If you’d like Fernando to do some apparel design work for you, or… if you’d like to contact him because you are a pretty lady who likes artists, you can go to his personal website and email him–especially if you live in Puerto Rico, or NYC.

Relavant Links

• EyeKandy
• Fernando’s Personal Website
• Buy the Fatal Justice T-Shirt in Black
• Buy the Fatal Justice T-Shirt in White