Blast from the Past: T-shirt Design from 2009

I had the gumption to teach Illustrator to 7th graders. The cool thing is, the school created a Computer Graphics course 2 years later--So, those 7th graders could take the course this year. I resurrected a few of their old t-shirt designs today, and showed their work to the class. They were pretty embarrassed--shouldn't have been. Here's a few. I love them.

Artist: M

This was my favorite design, but the student left the school. Wish I had an after pic.

Artist: PK

This student was in the process of submitting his design to threadless.com when the bell rang, and he never finished. Since then, he's completed several t-shirt designs he is in the process of submitting. Two of his designs were accepted by Threadless judges, but didn't make the final cut. One is pictured below:



Artist: LS

This student created the Air Jordans word art we know and love.



Artist: TW

TW created the word art cat "Cat's Got Your Tongue?" that won first at the T City Art Show.

New Projects

I've got two projects I'd like to complete this summer. They're more collaborative than anything. As a kid, I would've hated this. But, I'm finding more often than not, that two heads are indeed better than one. My students, for one, are electrifyingly creative.

Project 1: Heroes and Villains: Collaborative Works with Children

I asked my nephew to draw a character on each page of my sketchbook using a black ball point pen. He could draw anything he wanted to--bad guys and good guys. He basically drew characters from video games and TV Series. It was fun to watch him work. Afterwards I asked him to tell me if each character had a name, where he/she was from, and whether or not they were a good guy or a bad guy.

Now here's the fun part--I get to used his images to create a Heroes and Villains battle/rescue scene.

It's going to be sweet.

Project 2: