Hello. It's been a little longer than I'd like (almost two weeks), however, I'm back. A project that I've been working on recently is an anti-bullying campaign, tee shirt line. From time to time, I design tees for a small textile outfit by the name, Spare Change 21 (owner, Deb Waibel). Deb contacted me with an idea; to produce a line of tees for young kids called the Mirror Image Project. Here's what it's about: tee shirts with both a positive esteem building message and other designs with an anti-bullying theme. Altogether, I designed the campaign's logo, 10 tees, and a brochure to send to buyers. Here are a few examples from the pamphlet....
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| Page - explaining what the project it about. |
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| One of the "U do U - I'll do Me" designs |
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| "Imagine A World Without Bullying" |
I like designing tees for Spare Change 21. To start with, I may or may not have a theme or do some demographic research and go with my own ideas. I start sketching with a pencil and paper - working out design ideas. I take the sketches that I like and scan into Photoshop. From the relatively loose sketch, I work out the design, in color, and into a complete piece of artwork. The finishing touch is placing the design onto a tee shirt template - so it (kind of) looks like a real tee shirt.
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One of the Tee mock-ups
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Once we had a collection of tees and were ready to go to the clothing buyers, I designed a pamphlet for SC 21 to send out to her contacts. I designed the look and feel of it, and laid it out in Adobe In Design. I exported the final product as a PDF - a PDF version that's emailable, yet high enough quality to look good printed on a color laser printer.
If you have any question about the Tees, I'd be happy to field them, or you can Google, Spare Change 21 and contact the company directly (they'll be happy to hear from you, I'm sure).
Have a great week....I'll be back with more in about a week from now.
Aloha,
Tom
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| Mirror Image Project Logo |
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