Weekend Design

There are many ways t-shirts are made with different designs. http://shirt.woot.com/ is one of the biggest t-shirt producing companies based on the internet. This websites hosts weekly/montly competitions (a.ka. Derbys) for designers to submit a design on a t-shirt that matches certain criterias.

The reason why I am blogging about this website is because this weekend, I've had the pleasure of designing and submitting a design of my own to the website.

What happens during derby is there is a theme to each derby, and the designer has to follow certain requirements to submit a design. Some examples include submitting the design that has the correct theme, it has to contain less than 6 colors, it has to be a certain size, and NO STAR WARS designs. Then those who have a woot account may vote for the design, and the top three voted will receive 1000 dollars and a additional two dollars for each shirt sold.

This week's theme is "phobias". If you had a chance to look at the website you would see that there are A LOT of designs. It was really interesting to scroll through each design submitted because each and every individual design was unique. There were different styles of design present- seen through different use of colors, line formation, line thickness, and of course the design itself.

So, heres is what you guys have been waiting for- MY DESIGN! SO! If you guys happen to have a woot account please vote for me :D

What inspired this design was actually from my roommate. Hes had experience with his pets being afraid of the vacuum cleaner for some odd reason.

I didn't realize this at first, but the main colors used in this design were Primary colors! The reason why I made the vacuum cleaner red, was because that color was associated with Satan, evil, etc... And Blue- the opposite. Blue is light, happy, associated with heaven/sky.

Also, if you take a better look, the puppy is coming from a door that has yellow light- a happy place. The placement of the picture on the t-shirt also makes it look like the puppy was coming from the heart. In Lauer, he mentioned that designers tend to go for symmetry in their design. I noticed that I unconsciously did the same with my design.