I Talk With Christopher Muniz from DesignGive on JungleJar
In another recent and fantastic interview that I’m absolutely proud of, I had the chance of talking with Christopher Muniz who happens to be the master mind behind DesignGive.com.
What also was really cool to me especially was the fact that I was the first person to interview Christopher about Design Give and obviously JungleJar being the first website to have an interview with Christopher concerning Design Give.
This wasn’t my first interview with associates of Design Give.com however. You guys may remember Andhika Nugraha, a known and highly skilled graphic designer, who agreed to an interview with JungleJar which can be viewed by clicking this link. Well, Andhika was actually how I became introduced to Design Give in the first place. 
After viewing his DeviantArt portfolio and catching a glimpse of his t-shirt design named “God” for DG.com, I followed the tendrils into DesignGive.com and found not only a plethora of fantastic unique tees to purchase for a reasonable price, but also found a company who actually cares about the personality associated with the company and donates a large portion of their profits to a charity of the customer’s choosing.
Read this interview on JungleJar.com.
So, after our interview it got me to thinking a bit about my need for badias (yes, I spelled that correctly) t-shirts, and since now I felt like I had somewhat of a bond with Mr. Muniz, as fragile as it were, I was only thinking about DesignGive.com, and how amazing it was that I still hadn’t ordered Andhika’s t-shirt named “God” yet! He asked me if I would take a picture while wearing it over a year ago, and I still hadn’t bought the damn thing — and I loved the design! So, I rushed on over to the site, and it was.. sold out.
So, after a few moments of pouting, I found this gem to your left, and I’m going to be honest with you — I don’t think I had ever wanted a specific t-shirt so badly. I’m not sure exactly what it was, but the character in the design did resemble me quite a bit, I can be a bit morbid at times, I do have that constantly sarcastic sort of sense of humor, and it sure ain’t 1977 anymore, but I love my Misfits.
This t-shirt can be viewed by clicking here, and the artist behind the portrait was Maciej Rakowski.
And let me say that while Mr. Rakowski has an extremely complicated first name, his portfolio website at k4lab.info rocks, so please don’t hesitate and give Mr. Rakowski a bit of praise.
Anyway, guess what. Yep, that’s right, this t-shirt was too sold out but…
At the last second, I spotted “Oiled”.
Oiled was designed by artist Vanja Vikalo, and you can find his warez over at d-bend.com, and Mr. Vikalo says his inspiration for the design was
“Unfortunately the voice of wildlife is never heard in global oil catastrophes, so this is my illustrated way of voicing it for them.”
And perhaps due to the fact that I was pretty excited to have purchased a new cool t-shirt which is pretty embarassing to have happen at the age of 28, I found another t-shirt on Design Give, and it happened to be another t-shirt designed by the graphic designer Maciej Rakowski. So, while I didn’t get “Engine”, I still got a pretty cool shirt, and it sort of reminds me of a mix between Clockwork Orange and Frank Sinatra.
The name of the t-shirt is Industrial Re-pollution, and can be viewed at this link on DesignGive.
The message behind the design has a bit to do with pollution, if you hadn’t already guessed that, but to be more specific..
“Feeding the corporate mouths of industrial re-pollution, while the environment is paying the ultimate price.”
Well, I guess I’ve rambled on here enough to get you interested in Design Give if you are to ever get interested in Design Give, but it was a really fun article to write. I was able to not only talk with Christopher Muniz about Design Give on a few different key areas, but also talk to the folks who come here to my portfolio about which t-shirts on Design Give I thought were the super coolest, heh.
Thanks again to Christopher, ALL of the graphic designers who have contributed to Design Give, and anyone else out there trying to make a difference in the world — a damn good one.