Upper Playground 10-Year "Best Of" T-Shirt Series
To celebrate its 10th Anniversary, Upper Playground is re-releasing 10 of their all-time most popular graphic tees. The artists included in this series are a “Who’s Who” of some of Upper Playground’s best including David Choe, Denis Kennedy, Sam Flores, Jeremy Fish and Dora Drimalas. The collection has been 10-years in the making and is [...]
Upper Playground Produces New Image Art Gallery’s 15th Anniversary Commemorative T-Shirt
New Image Art Gallery is celebrating its 15th Anniversary this year and to commemorate the occasion, the Gallery is hosting a 15-Year anniversary party and retrospective show. Many of the artists that have shown at New Image over the past 15 years are contributing pieces including Barry McGee, Ed Templeton, Clare Rojas, Judith Supine, Shepard [...]
Upper Playground and superFishal Release New Barbary Tee
Upper Playground and superFishal have have come together to release a one-of-a-kind tee for those of you who were too late on getting the Aesop Rock USB, or couldn’t afford prints or artwork. You can now have a token of the Barbary Coast with the new superFishal Barbary Coast Tales tee! The tees are available [...]
"I Wanna Rock!" – Upper Playground Pays Homage to 80s Rock Tees
This Winter, Upper Playground are releasing four new graphics, designed by Munk One, inspired by rock tees from the 80s. You might not have been around in the 80s, but they can attest to the long hair, moshing, headbanging, tattoos, bad behavior and video vixens. If you want to relive the glory days, then we [...]
Boogie x Upper Playground
Brooklyn-based Serbian-born photographer, Boogie, has released the second volume in his city series entitled ‘Istanbul.’ The book is a result of a week long stay Boogie had in the city of Istanbul where he shot photos 15 hours a day. The result is 96 pages of black and white photography that give a starkly honest [...]
New premium tees from Upper Playground + Obama prints competition
Upper Playground have just released a new collection of Premium tees which are printed on softer, higher quality shirts and feature designs from Ben Tour, Craolo, Michael Sieben and Mario Wagner. As ever, from the UP camp, the designs are of the highest standard. Vancouver’s Ben Tour made the abstractly sketched faces design, if you [...]
Obama x Upper Playground x Digital Gravel Tee Collection
Supporting presidential hopeful, Barack Obama, Upper Playground’s team of artist’s created a set of Obama inspired pieces. The tees are now available exclusively through Digital Gravel, with under 300 of each being printed. Combining contributions from Sam Flores, Ron English, Alex Pardee, Munk One, Date Farmers and Morning Breathe amongst others, every print features the [...]
Righteous Kill x Upper Playground
Upper Playground in collaboration with upcoming Al Pacino and Robert De Niro film Righteous Kill is set to open a small pop-up space to promote the film’s September 12 opening. With Estevan Oriol and Mister Cartoon organizing the movie’s poster and marketing, the film’s aesthetic is also extended to a series of t-shirts. The pop-up [...]
superFishal | 12Grain – Spring/Summer Collection 2008
The strength of two of Upper Playground’s strongest artists in their talented creative pool resulted in Sam Flores and Jeremy Fish each developing their own collection. Here’s a small look into what Flores’ 12Grain and Fish’s superFishal respective lines has to offer as many pieces encompass a familiar aesthetic which has propelled each artist to [...]
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