Tom Christopher has partnered with Ikepod to produce an exclusive line of hand painted sneakers. Proudly handmade in Portugal, the first ever Sneaker designed and produced by a watchmaker. A very limited edition of 200 pairs only worldwide. Scarcity is luxury.

The model is wearing a linen jacket with artwork by Tom Christopher printed on the fabric.

These skateboards were made by Tom Christopher as prototypes for a campaign to produce skateboards under the Ikepod name. With the success of the watch brands bearing his artwork on the watch face, these designs would extend the brand to a younger audience.

Since its foundation in 1994, Ikepod has always been about design. Megastar designer Marc Newson was the key figure behind the design identity of Ikepod in the 1990s, which is still going strong despite the ups and downs of the brand (see below). Collaborations with artists have also proved lucrative and watches with dials designed…

Tom Christopher's paintings are brought to life as the basis for a new line of apparel. Some of his unique canvasses have been used as the theme for a line of brilliantly-colored clothing that consumers are wearing. His work lends itself to the colorful patterns and themes of New York life.  

Art prints available at  Dorado Beach Resort & Club 500 Plantation Drive Suite 1, Dorado, PR 00646

Man Bites Dog Rene Magritte’s best-known work is called The Treachery of Images, but many viewers will probably recognize the droll surrealist masterpiece by another title, one that’s printed on the lower portion of the painting itself. Writ large, the words proclaim Ceci n’est pas une pipe. (“This is not a pipe.”) Since the oil…

Cover for New Year's Greeting to clients and friends

From the Arthur O. Sultzberger collection, this painting was reproduced in subway stations in NYC.

Commission for Playwrights Horizons, 42nd St. NYC. Artwork for a poster and a notecard.

Tom Christopher T-shirt designs shown on Comedy Central! Host of Comedy Central’s Tosh.O with a Tom Christopher T-Shirt from Urban Outfitters.

Tom Christopher T-shirt designs at Urban Outfitters. (left) "New York is Noir again" poster by Tom Christopher and LTProject.com. (right) The showroom/gallery presentation of Threads for Thought and Tom Christopher modern apparel designs. (below)

Tom created this illustration for Los Angeles Times Magazine article about novelist Jack London's surfing the waves of Waikiki

One New York art project involved placing statues of white, life-size cows all over manhattan, with different artists painting each one. Tom Christopher's cow was in Times Square.

For an article about traveling to Bombay by writer Octavio Paz, Tom created this illustration to accompany the piece.

An illustration to go with an article about the style of men's briefs, Tom created this work for LA Times magazine.

When I first moved to New York, I got a job with CBS News doing courtroom drawings some undercover work and also fieldwork. I was okay at quickly drawing having studied classical drawing and working at Disneyland drawing people in the park. I had to dress up like a pirate but that’s another story. So…

Book Cover for the Times Square Business Improvement District

Artwork for the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization

This was an advertisement for China Seas. Commissioned by Inger McCabe Elliot. She founded the company and wrote books on Batik fabrics. She married Oz Elliot, editor at Newsweek. She was fluent in many languages and was a photo-journalist photographing Vietnam. I still get calls requesting the original of this painting.  

Commissioned for the MTA Arts in Transit program this poster appeared in subways and railcars over the metropolitan area.

Stamp for the U.S. Postal Service

SoHo Chic - For the New York Times, to celebrate this art and fashion district of New York.

LP album covers for Igor Stravinsky, Bill Evans and Sonny Rollins

I did these for CBS Records while in art school. I was working at the LA Branch of CBS Records when all the A&R execs went to London for a convention of some sort. They were giddy upon returning saying one of them lost a bet. The bet went like this: A guy stood on…

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The New York Yankees and NYC & Co. commissioned this four foot baseball which is being autographed by New York Yankees manager Joe Torre, at an Atlanta Braves vs New York Yankees game in Turner Field. Tom Christopher's street scenes of cabs and new york streets adorn the baseball.

This was an assignment to illustrate an article for column called 'On the Couch', a look into human behavior around the ways we communicate, or don't, and wish we had.  

This cover appeared on the Fall 1997 Quarterly Review of the Brookings Institute to accompany an article on civil society and why it's important to any forward policy making externally or internally in the halls of power.

For the feature story of the magazine the July/August issue an essay about the pursuit of happiness and how to achieve it.

In the late 90's there was a concern for rising violence in cities as white flight and bureaucratic stumbles had many residents concerned. This piece was for the Boston Globe's Health and Science page. A hunting knife was used as an object of potential violence to accompany a story dealing with the search for the…

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