About Us and Our Design Journey
Our vision is to create beautiful sportwear products, to do so ethically, using a recipe of colour, pattern and a positive attitude!
Who are BillingtonPix?
BillingtonPix is a new and exciting LGBT-owned graphic design enterprise, based in London. My name is Matthew Baines and I am the founder of this exciting creation that was formed during Lockdown in 2020, drawing together my love of photography, graphic design and online digital skills.
The name BillingtonPix comes from a street that my ancestors used to live on when they first arrived in England from central Ireland around 1850. You can find out more about their experiences in Manchester, from what I have unearthed in what was known as Little Ireland. It's an experience I would not want to live through, but one, nonetheless, that has inspired me to make the most of this wonderful life and to create beauty where I see decay.
In my view our history defines us. Living around Southwark in London, it has made me realise just how important is social and design history. All the buildings that surround us meant something to those who designed them and reflected those who lived around the area. I take a lot of inspiration just from the shapes of the street views, whether photographically or abstract. More recently this has led me to explore the Japanese streetwear style of Harajuku and appreciate its beauty.
What do we sell?
As BillingtonPix, we focus on creating beautiful quirky and vintage style athleisure products, including leggings for men and women, tank tops, sweatshirts, hoodies and t-shirts.
We love the Lucha Libre vibe of our pro-wrestling leggings collection, which have become our biggest sellers.
Love Retro
We love retro style design and will draw inspiration from designers of the 20th Century to inform our work. We bring together a design aesthetic that uses the shapes and colors of urban modernity to design abstract patterns for our products. Our blogs talk about some of the most important graphic designers of the past 80 years, including in the movements of Mid Century Modern and 80s Memphis design.
Love Harajuku Fashion
We are also obsessed with Harajuku and you can find a growing number of this awesome Japanese-inspired design phenomenon on many of our fashion products, ranging from Fairy Kei to Yami Kawaii and Menhera Kei.
We play around with these different fashion styles to create our own unique identity.
How it all began
Our story actually began during the Pandemic of 2020+.
There is a huge amount of philosophy behind our products. A lot of our designs have architectural themes, such as Art Deco, Modernism. When it comes to vintage style abstract design patterns, taking our inspiration from the shapes we see on the streets of urban London and transforming it into beautiful vintage style designs.
We are constantly adding to our product collections so keep checking back to see what is new! We also have a newsletter, which you can subscribe to to receive news and info on new products or sales!
You can see us also on Instagram - at @BillingtonPix!
Finally, we are a growing business, and welcome any feedback you might have. Please do get in touch.
Best,
Matthew