Glastonbury and the Large Blue
Despite the awesome weather and being based temptingly close to the beach we have been hard at work.
Whilst it seemed everyone else in town was packing for Glastonbury we were packing several hundred of our own representatives for the festival, but not the human sort. Following a call from the National Trust, ASP were given the task of printing a design specially created by Pop Artist Peter Blake to commemorate The National Trusts attendence at the festival for the first time and celebrate the successful re-introduction of the large blue butterfly back into the Somerset countryside.
Peter Blake may not be known to everyone, but the cover of Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band is!! The T Shirt Peter designed, evoked a vintage transport poster whilst combining the diverse elements that make Glastonbury the special place it is. As a really colourful and interesting piece of art, the job of converting to screen print, gave graphics team something to get really excited about. Especially as Amelia was going to the festival as well and would see her T shirts live.
The whole team went to work and ASP even learned a bit about the large blue as a result. We were thrilled with the end result, it did the fantastic artwork justice and we were especially proud when the T shirt design was featured in the Guardian Newspaper and National News and TV.
It’s great to have been able to provide the expertise needed for such a special job and in such a good cause and now we are looking forward to taking on more challenges.
“ASP were an absolute saviour - having been given a short deadline to produce high quality organic fair trade T shirts designed by Peter Blake for our Glastonbury stand and having no experience of ordering or designing T shirts, Chris and Amelia were fantastic. They offered practical advice from their years of experience as to what would look best, sent images for approval quickly and were happy to make changes as and when needed right up to the print run deadline. We achieved some fantastic highly coveted T shirts that our staff and festival goers were proud to wear and made the whole process stress free by their friendly approach and their great communication.”
Colette - NT Project Manager
Peter Blake on YouTube - Peter discusses Glastonbury and more about the design
