Graphics Design: T-shirts
The T-shirt design is usually a vector version of the main mascot for the year. T-shirts must be designed in illustrator with clean vector lines.
Whenever possible we need to go as few colors as possible. On dark shirts, one color will always be white as a base for other colors, so use white as one of the colors in the design if possible.
We usually buy PC55 shirts. Colors available here: https://www.sanmar.com/p/1626_Orange#?doScrollToGrid=true
2011
2-color design
Colors:
- White
- Cyan
Shirt Color: Black
The design was done in Illustrator by Beta. The technique was to outline the entire original image using Illustrator's outlining capabilities, and then roughly 8-10 hours was spent making adjustments until it looked "right."
Art by Nuriko Windchaser.
2012
3-color design
Colors:
- White
- Light Gray
- Dark Gray
Shirt Color: Black
The design was done in Illustrator by Beta. A very deliberate design choice was made here for the gray-scale. It didn't pay off as this is the least popular shirt we have. Technique was similar to 2011, but as there was less detail in the art it didn't take as long.
Art by Nova.
2013
2-color design
Colors:
- White
- Green
Shirt Color: Black
The design was done by Michelle Eaton with assistance from Rieev Princer. There was a possible version with a red "SNAFU" but because a 2-color design is cheaper to print, and the Red just popped way to much, the version with a white logo was used. Very, very, very minor changes were made by Beta before sending to print.
Art by Tyler Stokes.
2014
3-color design
Colors:
- White
- Purple
- Black
Shirt Color: Gray
Rieev attempted a T-shirt design for 2014 but couldn't seem to make the lines clean enough for screen printing because her art style uses fades and fuzzes. The original design was scrapped and completely redone by Beta taking roughly 13 hours to complete. 2014 was the first shirt to use dots to shade and color areas of the shirt to effectively have a light-purple color and dark purple tones without adding more colors. This is also our first shirt on gray.
Art by Rieev.