The Masters Project, incidentally, can be found here. It was one of my requirements for graduation. I plan to add Wii Opera compatibility this summer.

This shirt reads “If Swimming was easy… they’d call it Volleyball.” I fought them on the grammar point, but apparently this was meant as a reference to a line of t-shirts another company made for other sports, so the boss said the “was” had to stay. This is the sort of thing that those outside sports would dismiss, but swimmers and their parents will rush to buy. The boss really did know her market.

I was given more creative leeway on this shirt than on most. This was also the first one I did as a four-color process print. This meant I could use Photoshop and do some shading instead of my usual 2- and 3-color Illustrator work. I’m really pleased with how this one came out.

For this shirt, I was given the words “Merry Swimming” and asked to come up with a Christmas design. I designed a sprig of holly using small green swim fins in place of the leaves, and I’m told it sells moderately well at December swim meets.

This was one of the last photos taken by my dying Sony Cybershot. It was starting to bleed bright whites very badly. The shirt is another 4-color process featuring penguins on a chunk of ice, parading in their jammers and goggles toward a frozen starting block. The block is carved with a 4 because the fastest swimmer in a competitive heat is generally assigned to lane 4.

Our final assignment for my Typography class at the University of Denver was (in my group’s case) a poster for Buy Nothing Day 2006. Rick Griffith had us working at his studio in downtown Denver, MATTER. My group each produced a proposal in Illustrator/Photoshop and mine was the one we chose to produce. We finalized a design, with some pointers from Rick, and then we broke down the image into color plates (so to speak) for screen printing. I printed each of these plates in black on transparency, then we used the transparencies to expose screens. We took turns printing the screens on some huge glossy paper, and our posters were born!