I witnessed a cool thing today. A football shirt manufacturer based in England is printing and selling shirts with designs made by my dear friend Tomasz.

A deal? No! He was as surprised as I was when he gave me the link.

He wrote “Not cool, man! they sell my Ludziks”.

Becks Shirts. Source: toffs.com

Ludzik (polish for “little human”) is his personal project of illustrating people on this utterly cute template:

Ludzik. Source: facebook/Ludzik

Being the genius illustrator he is, it takes him a few, masterfully placed bold strokes to transform this blank Ludzik into someone instantly recognizable.

Becks. Heisenberg. Source: facebook/Ludzik

Lovely! Aren’t they?

You want one on a T-Shirt?

No problem.

Toffs.com has the special collection dedicated to Ludziks.

Toffs management probably have no idea. The Mastermind of the whole project — Creative Designer Ivan Lund-Larsen explains his artistic vision blatantly lying on their website:

“It’s a great creative project to be involved in mixing Premier League Legends in the style of Japanese vinyl toys”

“Ivan, who has worked on prestigious projects for Nike and Berghaus, came up with the idea of mixing his two favourite loves: vinyl toys and world football. Focusing his attention on legends of the game from past and present.”

So cute!!

And if that’s not enough to sell you the idea, they also made a photo of their busy creative studio literally drowning in printed Ludziks.

Busy creative studio. Source: toffs.com

Here’s something that makes me smile though. Someone at Toffs probably approached Ivan to illustrate Louis Van Gaal in a Ludzik fashion — and since my friend never did Van Gaal — Ivan had to employ his own skills to produce one:

Van Gall. Source: toffs.com

He miserably butchered the whole idea. Remember? “few masterfully placed bold strokes”? Yeah. Good job Ivan.

Oh and guys…

Be careful while browsing through toffs.com catalogue. Nothing there is for grabs you know:

“Our online catalogue contains almost all of the 1300+ shirts available in our current catalogue. Where we see a breach of any of our trademark and design rights we will take action.”

Update:

Toffs.com people are in touch with Tomasz and are really handling this situation with dignity and proffesionalism.

I believe they feel as dissapointed and betrayed as Tomasz does.