Shirt Designs

Some of the most enjoyable design work for me is creating t-shirts. The design must be simple and iconic enough to catch a person's eye in the time it takes to pass someone on the street, yet must be interesting enough to stay with the viewer beyond that. This plus the limits on colors used makes for a very interesting puzzle to solve, an example of restrictions leading to greater creativity.

Boulder Harvest 2011

The shirt for the bouldering competition at Climb Iowa. Being in October, I thought this was a nice eery design for the event.

Climb Iowa Logo Shirt

This was a proposed interpretation of the Climb Iowa logo for a new shirt. I always liked this one and was surprised that they never had it printed. Ah well.

ABS Regionals 2011

Man, this one took a while to get looking right (it's hard to predict what something will look like when you're only drawing one half of it). Anyway, I thought it was a cool design.

Flock to the Rock 2011

A shirt design for our local sport climbing competition. I didn't realize it until someone pointed out the similarities, but I guess I was channeling my childhood love of James and the Giant Peach on this one.

Play in the Shade

A shirt design for a Climb Iowa summer camp, I still really like this one.

SCS Regionals 2010

There was some zeitgheist at work on this one, as there was a very similar design that came out of Vertical Endeavors right around the same time (I think we both even used the same heart image as a model).

SYSK 1

This was a shirt design done for a t-shirt contest put on by Stuff You Should Know, the best podcast in the known universe. The two wonderful hosts discuss topics ranging from Twinkies to the Delta Force twice a week.

Flock to the Rock 1

A shirt design for the first annual Flock to the Rock sport climbing competition held at Climb Iowa.

Rock Out with your Chalk Out

A design inspired by desperately thinking of a theme for a climbing competition, while this obviously was a bit over the top, I thought the shirt deserved to be made. (note, I still have the screen for this if anyone wants to order a shirt!)

Peep

A shirt design parodying one of my favorite artists, Magritte, and his famous "This is not a pipe" painting...might be a good easter present.