Grow Your Own Food
Grow Your Own Food sounds like pretty good advice these days. Given our current economic climate, I’m down to save money any way I can. This bit of wisdom is imparted to us on a T-shirt by Metro Three, a New Orleans-based shop with some pretty sweet tees. The inspiration and history behind the T-shirt is explained on the product page, but I’ll paste it here for good measure:
In October 1939 the Government launched ‘The Dig for Victory’ campaign. People were urged to use gardens and every spare piece of land, such as parks, golf clubs and tennis courts, to grow vegetables. Even the moat at the Tower of London was used to grow vegetables. “We want not only the big man with the plough but the little man with the spade to get busy this autumn. Let ‘Dig for Victory’ be the motto of everyone with a garden,” – Rob Hudson, Minister for Agriculture, in October 1939.
The Grow Your Own Food print isn’t lifted from the Dig for Victory campaign, but it carries with it a sense of authenticity. It’s not too slick of a design but is a great example of design at its best. The ultimate objective of design, after all, is to communicate — and this T-shirt does that better than most.
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