New Basement Tees

The design and motion company I work for, The Basement, is in need of some company tees, so I put together this 3 color design. We wanted something other than just our logo slapped on a shirt, so I tried to integrate a bit of movement in the design to associate with all the motion work that we do. The plan is to print them on Alternative Apparel shirts (the perfect crew for men and organic scoop neck for women). We're hoping to get these printed and sent out to clients as holiday gifts, as well as for ourselves of course. I can't wait to see them finished, hopefully we can get them printed soon. Happy Wednesday!

Lebfest Goes To Camp!

This year we decided to take Lebfest to the great outdoors. We stripped away the competition and added canoeing and camping at Blue's Canoe and Livery down in Edinburgh. I'm excited to see everyone. It's become a reunion of sorts for many of us. It's also nice to have it at the camp grounds because we can open it up a bit more and encourage our friends to bring friends of theirs that we haven't met yet. Here's this year's t-shirt design.

No red or blue, we went with a neutral color and decided to make it seem like an old school camp tee. It was fun to play with texture instead of color when faced with a 2 color challenge. This is one of my first projects considering that.

Indy Green Tips Tshirt Designs

Here at Mediasauce I was in charge of organizing a day where everyone in the company would devote 5 hrs of service to our community. Everyone worked together to create a PSA of sorts that shares small ways that everyone can work together to help make Indy a greener place. I'll share more about the project once it launches. For now, I'll just share a tshirt design that I put together for it using some of the design elements we created on our day of service.

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Grisette Logo

Recently I've been dabbling in t-shirt screen print design. Mostly I've been putting designs together for specific events, but I also have quite a few little designs that I created just for fun. I thought I might try and take them around to local boutiques to see if there is any interest. I figured I should put them under some sort of name or label, so I decided on the name "Grisette". There were several aspects of the term that appealed to me and seemed to fit with the type of designs that I am producing. Here's a draft of the logo that I'm playing with for the label. Hopefully soon I can put together a few experiments with my own screen here at home. The process is so interesting to me. It'll be a tight squeeze trying to do anything in the bathroom downstairs, but we'll see how it goes. If nothing else, it will give me a fun project to work on once it starts getting cold outside.

Lebfest '07 T-shirts in Action

Last weekend marked the 2nd annual Lebfest. Around 60 of us gathered in the "Friendly City" of Lebanon, Indiana to celebrate Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Friendliness. We gathered beneath the friendly city water tower for opening ceremonies then competed in sports at the park, hung out, challenged each other to ridiculous competitions, and partied until the wee hours of the morning. We split into two teams that honor the two most popular forms of lawn ornamentation embraced by the city, the Porch Geese and the Garden Gnomes. As explained below, the t-shirts were designed to capture the energy and the "fest" aspect of Lebfest, while at the same time highlighting the team mascots and over-all spirit of patriotism that the town of Lebanon (and our beloved festival) prides itself on. Here are some shots of the shirts in action at Lebfest '07.

T-shirt Fun

Over the past couple months I've dabbled in a t-shirt design here and there for various reasons, so I thought I'd include a couple of them in a post. More designs are in the works, maybe some day soon I'll actually put some little label together dedicated to wearable art. I dig t-shirt design, but it would be so fun to put together skirts, purses, etc. Hopefully things should slow down at home soon, and I'll be able to break out my new screen and do some experiments!

1. For The Cure Shirt: A shirt I put together to help raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. My purpose for designing this shirt was to create something that I personally would like to wear and hope that others would want to wear it as well. I like the idea of design that can benefit a cause without containing an image of a ribbon or helping hands. (I'm happy to get re-prints made if you are ever in need of a fund raising shirt for this organization. 100% of the profits will ALWAYS go to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.)

2. Love is All Shirt: A shirt commissioned by Soul Sister for the Indy Pride festival. They requested a rainbow bullseye and the tagline "Love is All" I wanted to incorporate urban imagery since it was a Downtown Indy festival so I included the buildings and spray paint. I originally had a few prominent buildings from downtown, but I wasn't sure if I should be concerned about the companies that own the buildings since I might be associating those companies with an event without getting permission, so I ended up making the buildings more of a general representation of the city. I also wanted to use very saturated, bright colors that would pop off the shirt and decided to add a bit more interest by breaking up the bullseye. The placement of the buildings and the organic shapes reaching out from behind also implied that the bullseye was a representation of the entire world, re-enforcing the "love is all" tag line.

3. Lebfest '07: This shirt was designed for a mini-event that my friends and I have put together for the last 2 years. The opening ceremonies are held underneath the town's water tower which contains the town's nickname of "The Friendly City". I wanted to play up the "festival" part of Lebfest which drove the general idea behind the design. The geese and gnomes represent the two team names of "Porch Geese" and "Garden Gnomes (which can be found on NUMEROUS porches around the town of Lebanon... lawn ornaments are BIG here).

As a side note, PRN Graphics is a local apparel printing company who I love and trust to get my designs printed. Today I was browsing around their site (because I needed their phone number to call about the Lebfest shirts) and saw that they included my design in their portfolio section. It was surprising to see it on their site. They did a stellar job with the prints and they're really great to work with. If you're in need of a printer, these guys get two thumbs up!