Emerging from a t-shirt competition run on Manchester Metropolitan University’s Three Dimensional Design course, Umbrella is a new t-shirt company set up by Tim Parsons and graduate designer Ben Perry
Umbrella aims to offer a fresh approach to screen-printed t-shirts. Our mantra 'functional before fashionable' hints at our ethos of exploring how a t-shirt can be useful and evocative as well as making a fashion statement.
Umbrella launched at 100% Design 2005 with four shirts that mix wry humour with intelligent insight. A second collection followed in 2006. Umbrella Tees closed in 2008.