This shirt was officially named “The Soul Series” but was generally referred to as the Free James Brown shirt or the Soul Behind Bars shirt. It was one of the first designs by 2B Homecooked Garments (1989). Back in those days we didn’t have a press yet and printed a
The Dope Fish was one of the original 2B Homecooked Garments tee shirt designs. It was made with our most favorite high-tech graphic design program: Typestyler! Released around 1990. The words Homecooked Garments form the fish in purple and turquoise. The front had a 2B breast logo.
The DIRT shirt featured artwork by Hal Brindley of a smiley face guy doing a no-footed can-can jump on dirt. Below it said “gooD thIngs from motheR earTh”. The front had a 2B breast logo. The shirt was released in 1990 as part of the first year line of 2B shirts.
The Brotherhood logo tee shirt was released in 1990 in the original line of 2B Homecooked Garments. It featured a 2B logo with Brindley and Buddendeck written an the oval around it. The shirt was printed with a swirl of blue and black ink on a white tee. Designed by Steve Buddendeck.
This is the very first 2B logo. When Steve Buddendeck created the name 2B it stood for Buddendeck and Buddendeck. The other Buddendeck was his mom! She was sewing hip packs and pants for him. Soon Steve joined up with Hal Brindley to start a tee shirt line and they decided to use the
Leigh and I liked to give a free tee shirt to every one who participated in the PLAY contest series. In 1997 we made a series of shirts featuring our pets; Scamper (my cat) and Honky (Leigh’s white rat). They showed a series of cartoon interactions between the two and this parti
In 1992, during the lean years of BMX, Go Magazine went out of business and there were no BMX magazines left. I attempted to fill that void by publishing the Cookbook. Somewhere between a zine and a a magazine, I printed 10,000 copies and mailed one for free to every person on the Tr
2B designers Hal Brindley and Steve Buddendeck were fascinated by rednecks and this was reflected in many of their shirt designs and marketing. The Goat tee shirt features artwork by Hal Brindley of an angry goat wearing a 2B medallion around its neck. Inside the goat’s eye is r
The Ten-Pin embroidered logo tee shirt by 2B Homecooked Garments was yet another design inspired by Hal and Steve’s passion for bowling. The small, three-color logo appeared on the front of navy blue tee shirts and sweatshirts. The word “hOmEcOOkEd” fit nicely on a r
The team logo was originally designed for 2B team riders but became available to the general public. It featured a large rough 2B logo wrapped around the side of the shirt with the word “team” beneath it. (pretty clever, right?) This way regular old joe schmoes could prete