THE SALVAGES x &LARRY "4:30" T-Shirt

Designed by &Larry, Crafted by The Salvages
Year 2025

In 2005, at the lowest point of my creative career, Royston Tan asked me to design the poster for his second feature, 4:30, heading to the 56th Berlin International Film Festival. Unlike 15, this film was quiet and contemplative, so I approached the poster like a contemporary book cover — intimate, ambiguous, and caught between hiding and emerging.

I re-enacted a key scene, pairing Futura with a yellow-green cross-processed tone that shaped the entire mood — a look Royston later colour-graded the whole film to match. When the posters were reportedly stolen off the streets in Berlin, it became the moment I stopped questioning my worth.

Two decades on, 4:30 remains my true beginning. This time, we created the “bootleg” tee that never existed — a small tribute to the film that lit the way, and the project that set everything in motion.

About The Salvages

Founded in Singapore, The Salvages reimagines the archive as an evolving conversation between music, subculture, and design — reviving cultural relics with craft, irreverence, and modern intent.

About Royston Tan

Royston Tan is a Singaporean filmmaker known for his poetic portrayals of everyday life in films such as 15, 4:30, and 881.