Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Swim Team Shirt

Idea-  I think for my next project i am going to work on a t-shirt design for the high school swim team.  I am thinking something with the team name and including the mascot, colonials.  I have to think about colors cause i know that not too many colors can be used.  Also i do not really exactly know what colors.  Maroon has to be included cause that is the school color and probably also white.  In the past we have had black shirts with maroon, white and orange.  We have also had shirts that are maroon with white and black writing.  I really liked the sweatshirt we had that was large capital M and had goggles and a little colonial hat on the top of the M.  I want to do something similar to that cause in the past the shirts have only had words on them like Morristown High School Swimming and then a quote on the back.  
Specs-  I found a t-shirt vector and am going to put the design for the shirt in it so it is proportional to how it would be if the shirt is printed. 
Research-   I looked online at other t-shirts and did not really find stuff so i looked at the different things from years past and other teams that i have.  
Somethings i would like to include:

  • Goggles
  • Colonial hat
  • Traditional swimmer (butterfly)
  • Large Capital M (for Morristown)

Planning-  ( I had other sketches, but am having some trouble scanning them on)


Comps-  I first made the goggles that i want to have in the design and i am going to make the colonial hat next.



I got this simple idea for the hat from past shirts.  I added the M because i am not sure where or how i am going to use the hat

This is the swimmer i made.  It is found on a lot of t-shirt so i do not think i am going to use this but i wanted to make it to see how it would turn out.

 
These are the first 3 i made and i like the large M but am not a huge fan of the goggles because i can not get them to sit right on the M.  It is soposta look like it is hanging on but I do not think i got that look. 




                   
I made these two and added the picture on the sleeve.  I really like having the M there, but do not like having the the swimmer out like large or on the shirt at all really.




I took my four favorite designs and made some changes to them.
I changed some of the fonts and colors.  I think my favorite would
either the M with the goggles or with the hat.  I fixed the way the goggles
sit and i like it a lot better.  Instead of two strap i made it one and made it
so that it disappears partly behind the M so it actually looks like it is hanging.  I still like the idea of having something on the sleeve, but i just am not sure i can find the right combination of icons. I do not really like the swimmer and that knocks out those two shirts and to put something on the sleeve of the other 2 shirts would probably have to be a swimmer and i do not really want that on the shirts because it has been done before and i do not really like the look of it.