Over the last year, the family business has pushed me to learn about t-shirt design. We have a number of major, annual events where we sell t-shirts to attendees — these events keep growing, so my t-shirt designing days won’t be ending anytime soon. So here’s my latest design, which debuted at the Summer Solstice Swing Dance Festival:
The event marketing had a triangle motif that I repeated here. You can visit this page to see what the event promo material looked like. To achieve a more minimal design, the logos and info went on the back. There were only two tees left at the end of the event, so I think people liked it! The above pictures are kinda vanilla, so here’s a look at these tees in their natural habitat: the festival dance floor!
(These photos by John Koob; he’s the man because capturing dancers in motion is really hard to do.)
The process of learning how to design for garments has been very challenging, and I still have lots to learn. There are much more restrictions to design and practicalities to consider — how the ink will interact with the fabric, how the design will look on different shirt sizes, etc. But when the design works out…it’s the most satisfying thing ever!