While our shared Star Wars fandom unites us, every one of us comes at that fandom and love for the saga from a different angle – in other words, we’re all individuals, and this new range of Star Wars shirts from Original Stitch means you can be as original as you want to be. StarWars.com sat down with designer Kazuki Higashi to discuss the new range, and how it came to be.
StarWars.com: What were you most excited for when you started this Star Wars collection?
Kazuki Higashi: As a designer and a Star Wars fan, I was so excited to be able to browse through the diverse archives of graphic art from around the world and get inspired by the immense content that was available for me to use. Not to mention all of the material from each of the films! Combing through the wide breadth of graphics, it was a great reminder of the depth of Star Wars history. This is a story that’s been around for decades and I got to make new designs for it. That was such an honor!
StarWars.com: How did you decide on what pattern to create for a character? Where do you draw inspiration from?
Kazuki Higashi: I wanted the composition to look like a scene cut out of a movie, not just a repeating pattern, which is pretty common in textiles. Inspiration came to me at the moment when the designs of the characters in the material overlapped with the scenes I remembered from the films. I also combined the characters’ features with standard textile patterns, including Japanese patterns.
We LOVE wearing our Fantha Tracks shirts during the day on the convention floor, but these would look incredible on a Celebration night out. To learn more, visit the official Original Stitch website.
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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While our shared Star Wars fandom unites us, every one of us comes at that fandom and love for the saga from a different angle – in other words, we’re all individuals, and this new range of Star Wars shirts from Original Stitch means you can be as original as you want to be. StarWars.com sat down with designer Kazuki Higashi to discuss the new range, and how it came to be.
StarWars.com: What were you most excited for when you started this Star Wars collection?
Kazuki Higashi: As a designer and a Star Wars fan, I was so excited to be able to browse through the diverse archives of graphic art from around the world and get inspired by the immense content that was available for me to use. Not to mention all of the material from each of the films! Combing through the wide breadth of graphics, it was a great reminder of the depth of Star Wars history. This is a story that’s been around for decades and I got to make new designs for it. That was such an honor!
StarWars.com: How did you decide on what pattern to create for a character? Where do you draw inspiration from?
Kazuki Higashi: I wanted the composition to look like a scene cut out of a movie, not just a repeating pattern, which is pretty common in textiles. Inspiration came to me at the moment when the designs of the characters in the material overlapped with the scenes I remembered from the films. I also combined the characters’ features with standard textile patterns, including Japanese patterns.
We LOVE wearing our Fantha Tracks shirts during the day on the convention floor, but these would look incredible on a Celebration night out. To learn more, visit the official Original Stitch website.
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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