NZ artist wins international Chch tee design contest

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For Immediate Release
25 March 2011

NZ artist wins international design contest, raising funds for Christchurch

David Creighton-Pester, Hamilton based graphic designer and illustrator, has been announced as the winner of an international t-shirt design competition which will see funds raised in support for Christchurch, after last month’s devastating earthquake.

The competition was held by Chicago-based company, Threadless (www.threadless.com), a community-centred online apparel store, which boasts 1.5 million community members worldwide.

Through its sub-site, Threadless Causes (www.causes.threadless.com), international artists were asked to submit inspirational designs under the theme “Rebuild”, with the focus being the city of Christchurch.

Community members voted on the submissions and David’s winning design went on sale on www.threadless.com on Friday, 25 March for US $20. 25% of net proceeds from sales will go to support the Christchurch rebuilding process.

David, whose winning design depicts several hands each piecing together a broken section of the Christchurch Cathedral, is the inaugural winning design of the Threadless Causes initiative. He will donate his prize money of US $500 to Christchurch support.

”It’s great to be able to support Christchurch in this way,” says David. “The key idea of my design is that people make the city. Although buildings have fallen, people have hope of rebuilding through helping each other, as shown by the many hands. Making the Cathedral the focal point was obvious as this in an international icon representing the City.”

“Threadless has been awesome to instigate this and show their support for New Zealand at this time. As a New Zealander winning an international competition, it feels great to help my own country.”

Previous to this win, David has won 12 other t-shirt designs at Threadless, as well as designing a number of t-shirts for other international online companies. David is currently working with clothing label designers in New Zealand, with t-shirts set to be released in larger retail stores later this year.

He operates his own graphics company Scorch Design + Illustration, as well as his personal art website www.wanderingbert.com.

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