Event Shirts
I produced quite a few t-shirts and other apparel items for Kast-A-Way Swimwear. They would negotiate the rights to produce the “official” shirt for many championship meets they were vending at.
My shirt for the Ohio LSC Long Course Championships, known to insiders as “Ohio AA’s.” This was the official 2005 shirt. In my swag archive at home I have the only unsold shirt from the entire edition. This shirt was a 4-color process designed to imitate elements of a soccer shirt the boss had seen before. I did my best to make it my own.
I was waiting to get on a plane to Denver when I got the call asking me to design this shirt. I sketched it on the plane. They wanted something “classic” and we settled on an old “woody” station wagon. A surf scene was built around it because the meet organizers wanted to somehow integrate the names of every single participating team into the design. They seemed happy with how it turned out, but I was never really satisfied. It looked better on a non-yellow shirt, for one. This design was later recycled for a meet in another region. It looked better on the blue background of that merchandise.
YMCA Short Course (Winter) National Championships, 2006. They wanted a hibiscus design like they were seeing on lots of college merchandise at the time. I gave them one. There wasn’t much to do on this one except some minor permutations for things other than the shirt.





