An art project by Raubdruckerin
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The Raubdruckerin group was led by Emma-France Raff. In 2006, while she was still living in Portugal, she came up with the idea of using manhole covers to print t-shirts after a discussion with her father, painter Johannes Kohlrusch.
Raubdruckerin is more of an art project than a business model. But the project’s t-shirts have gone viral throughout social networks.
The Raubdruckerin team will be looking for surfaces in major cities that can become t-shirt molds – be it manhole covers, bricks, raised surfaces. After that, the group will smear it with ink and then print it on the t-shirt*. Since then, the shirt has unique motifs, streetwear nature, retro style because the ink fades, and is imbued with the culture of each different city.
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The use of urban surfaces as t-shirts is also unique, in part because it stands in stark contrast to the classic printing process.
Printing is usually done in a clean, discreet, orderly environment to deliver sharp and industry-standard results. Raubdruckerin’s street printing of t-shirts creates impromptu, uncontrollable, retro prints that exude craftsmanship despite the molding being a product of the mass-production industry.
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The idea of printing t-shirts brings the idea of preserving urban culture