Design that keeps you warm
Project 4: T-shirt series
Create a series of three T-shirts. The shirts share a theme, color, and design concept. Design one with an illustration, one with a type design, and one with an allover pattern.
This one’s completely open. Go nuts! You can use any cut of T-shirt you like. Except: no Live Trace.
Go to the usual sources for inspiration. Check out Rumplo, Threadless, Threadless Select, and Threadless TypeTees, but don’t get hung up on T-shirt sites. Draw from the rest of the world too! Can your shirts reflect your tastes in publication design? Packaging? Nature?
Minimal My Ass T-shirt by Wasted German Youth
Final presentation
Present your designs like the two examples below: mocked up on a model on one side, and the art alone on the other. The Threadless Submission Kit has Photoshop and Illustrator templates, and this Flickr group has images of T-shirt models you can use for your mockups.
Frowns Are Flesh by Geoff Mcfetridge
And You Don’t Stop by Paul O’Sullivan
Timeline
- Tuesday, Novemeber 11
- Present project brief. Begin research, exploration, and sketches.
- Thursday, November 13
- Before class, complete your initial sketches and post them to the Flickr group. In class, print a copy for small group critiques, then begin work on your final designs.
- Tuesday, November 18
- Before class, post your progress to the Flickr group. In class, work on your final pieces.
- Thursday, November 20
- Bring prints of your project for a final in-class crit.
- Tuesday, November 25
- Final printed project due at the beginning of class.
