BillingtonPix - vintage style retro designs

What better than the drama of a retro 80s style pro wrestling match! The showmanship, the performance, the banter! Now we are pleased to announce a fantastic collection of pro-wrestling gear for men in the shape of colorful and kitsch meggings. Grab yourself a look and then head over to  https://billingtonpix.com/collections/mens-pro-wrestling-tights for more!

 I've been playing around with colour again, specifically geometric rainbow patterns in a retro 80s style. Take a look at these leggings and Hawaiian shirts in black and white. There is something rather goth about the rainbowcore against the black background. I love the drama and contrast going on here!

 I'm so excited to be able to share some news about my Etsy store! I've now opened another store on Etsy that will allow me to sell fabric panels in the same retro and Harajuku designs as the athleisure I have been selling on BillingtonPix.Etsy.com . My new Etsy store is called Pancake Patterns and can be found at PancakePatterns.Etsy.com Not only that, but I have collated a number of designs together on my Etsy shop to be able to make more sense of each collection. Here are some of the groupings I have made. Vaporwave Mandala The fabric for this graphic can be found on my Pancake Patterns Etsy store, but you can also find some of the athleisure products themselves on my BillingtonPix Etsy store. Take a look at these wonderful athleisure products which I have grouped together here : Vaporwave Mandala Underboob Crop Top This underboob crop top is one of my newest products altogether. There are only a few of these athleisure pieces on my Etsy store, but they are fast becoming on...

Grab 25% off your favourite Leggings for Men in our Flash Sale Excited to announce a whopping 25% discount in my Flash Sale on BillingtonPix.Etsy.com . This sale is for men's leggings only on all styles. If you are a fan of mens fashion then you might already own one or several pairs of meggings. At BillingtonPix I am keen that colour and quirky feature heavily in my designs. Whether you wear your leggings as festival meggings or as running tights you can be assured of wearing something unique. Patterns are usually in a retro or quirky style, such as Mid Century Modern, 80s Memphis style, 90s Vaporwave aesthetic or more contemporary such as Harajuku, including Pastel Goth and Yami Kawaii. You can find out more about my love of 90s Vaporwave design and Japanese Harajuku style by reading this blog post . I am particularly proud of my Harajuku clothing range. We also sell other athleisure items such as leggings for women, unisex sweatshirts and hoodies. With Harajuku I am able to expr...

Welcome to my world of the Vaporwave illusion  I wanted to let you all know that there is a ton of really cool Vaporwave and Yami Kawaii clothing on my Etsy store: BillingtonPix.Etsy.com . But also I want to make sure that I explain at least in a few words what is Vaporwave and how it has helped me to build out my design aesthetic. I've always been the one who refuses to follow the trend. Whenever there is a new bestseller on the Amazon book list I will remain sceptical that is perhaps just because of good marketing. I actually prefer the classics when it comes to literature, which have been filtered out over time. When it comes to contemporary design, however, I am a little more adventurous. There will always be the design classics, such as Mid-Century Modern, Art Deco, Impressionism or Arts & Crafts. I've spent a lot of time immersing myself into MCM. For all the right reasons, I feel secure in its formulaic constraints. On my BillingtonPix.com website I have written qui...

 I always try to achieve at least one thing in the day. However small. However defeated I might be from previous days experiences in promoting my website. All I can do is progress. That might be writing a blog, it might be creating some BillingtonPix vintage style designs , it might be posting to BillingtonPix RedBubble designs and patterns . Whatever it is the only way to progress is to progress. One step at a time.  Break down the huge milestones into smaller achievable chunks. For example I am currently pushing out all my BillingtonPix London vintage style t-shirts to Ebay. I spent the past week adding them to my website, then building a landing page to promote them. Now I am trying to get them to Ebay where they will enjoy the most traffic. But that is so much hard work in terms of categorisation and waiting for the pages to update. It just takes forever. I also have a background task to ensure that they are all indexed on Google and that all my SEO strategies are working...

Here are 3 incredible midcentury modern designers that made a significant impact to design in the mid-20th century. They influence me in my own work at BillingtonPix with their idealism about great design, with the honesty of clear communication that was a clear break away from earlier design. 1. Paul Rand Paul Rand is best known for his corporate logos, such as for IBM and NeXT, but his earlier work comprised of magazine and book covers. His genius was in reducing the ethos of a company down to a single logo that clearly communicated its message, by stripping away all the non-essentials to deliver an un-sentimental design that you could trust. You can read my blog about his work . 2. Saul Bass Saul Bass dedicated his life to creating beautiful movie posters and movie opening sequences, such as for Psycho, North by Northwest, Goodfellas and Casino. His style is quintessentially mid-century and you can still see it being used today. Like Paul Rand, Bass was able to reduce the meaning ...