Curiosity in Shirt Design

Inconvenient inspiration strikes again! I entertained the ambition of creating a shirt design for one of Woot.com's derby entries a couple of weeks ago. The theme was "Hearts", for obvious February reasons, and there was a disturbing amount of overly cheesy submissions. So, I set out to create an end-of-the-world dating scenario... because everyone loves those, right?

I hadn't tried designing a shirt before and it reintroduced me to how valuable negative space can be.

Perhaps someday this will be a shirt. Until then, I'm turning it into an animation of some sort.

I've also decided that instead of February 14th being Valentine's Day, from here on out, I will acknowledge that date only as Oregon's birthday. It seems more relevant that way.

Flash of the Yester Year

Back in the day when I used Macromedia Flash before Adobe devoured it! Stills of the backgrounds and characters I developed for experimentation in the program.







These last few are an homage to the loop of kids I grew up with. We were always in bands together, playing shows for the high school rapscallions. It didn't matter who was in the audience or if we were playing in a garage. We just played music. All... the time.

Oh, memories!