I used a simple photo editing and cropping tool to make this shirt. It’s definitely not pretty but I think the idea of is pretty funny. I’ve been watching a lot of old Simpsons episodes lately, as everyone should, and so that show in particular has been on my mind. There’s a lot of clever quotes from the Simpsons- This one isn’t so clever but it’s simple enough to put on a t-shirt and everyone would be able to understand why it’s funny even if they didn’t watch the show.

“For this assignment, you get to design your very own t-shirt! Find a blank t-shirt template, then add a picture or some text. It could be a joke, a pop culture reference, a movie quote, or anything else you want.”

For the “Create A T-Shirt” Assignment I decided to make a swimming t-shirt. I’ve been swimming ever since I was ten years old so swimming really is life to me. To make the t-shirt I started by using Google Images to find a t-shirt template. Once I found a good template, I downloaded it and opened it up in Microsoft Paint. I then found a photo of a swimmer doing buttefly that I thought would be perfect for a t-shirt so I downloaded that off of Google Images and placed it on the t-shirt. Lastly I created a text box in Paint and while using the “Papyrus” font for the lettering wrote out “Swimming is Life.”

Here is the actual assignment.

Enrepreneur.com states that no one should work more than 80 hours in two weeks. One reason for this is that the quality of the produced work will suffer due to worker exhaustion.

You might think that working beyond normal hours would only slightly reduce the quality of production. This is not often the case as detrimental contributions become more common after-hours, a net-negative result compared to one who did not overwork.

You may wonder then why someone might overwork someone? There are several possibilities:

1. To establish a ‘culture of fear’. If it is unusual for someone to question the amount of work that is required each week, then it is less likely that someone will go about addressing the issue. This allows the person to avoid problems that are affecting others, all while remaining dominant and in control.
2. To hide one’s inner-fears. This is the usual reason behind overworking. When someone has unresolved conflict within him/herself, and knows not how to express it, that person will often lay that burden on others. What’s worst is, the fear created stifles others from assisting to resolve the person’s inner-fears.
3. Because of a general lack of empathy. If the person in control does not feel comfortable talking with the team about business problems, then there is little hope for those problems to be resolved. Also, if the person in control can’t take feedback, or does not advocate feedback, then there is a low likelihood that people can enact change in the corporate culture.

I made a T shirt to represent the above ideas:

The tied up wrists represents the inability to act against the company culture. The crossed out “quality work” represents the idea that high-quality work cannot be created when operating within a culture of fear. The blue represents the potential for freedom & change.

Process

To create the T-shirt, I used customink. The site allows you to provide a base color, add art/text, and rearrange components in order to craft a one-of-a-kind design.

To keep to design week, I kept in mind the spacing between the symbols. This spacing allows for the eyes to circle around the symbols of bondage, all while realizing the result of the bondage will be low quality work (centered to stand out).

Also, in terms of color, I chose to use only 3: white, red, and blue. The blue and white are rather calm to the eyes, while the red in the center contrasts sharply. This draws attention to the core idea expressed by the shirt, that low quality work will be produced when operating under a culture of fear.

This assignment couldn’t have come at a more convenient time! Just now on dance team, each member was assigned the task of designing a piece of spirit wear for the team to vote on! So of course I decided to use my design for this project!

First off, I decided to choose a football jersey styled shirt, in a pretty light blue color. I thought this would be a great comfortable shirt to perform hip-hop dances in while still being cute and teamy! Obviously I had to include the “UMW Dance Team” text because that’s what spirit wear is all about! I decided it was too plain with just the text, so I inserted a clipart picture of a dancer doing a needle extension! Then, I placed it all out on the t-shirt in what I thought was the best way possible! I hope you all like my design!

To make this design, I simply used the the t-shirt creator on the Custom Ink website!

So for this Assignment Bank project called “Create A T-Shirt“, I created a t-shirt… yay! (2.5 stars)

Context: The girl is god in the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. The whole show revolved around 3 high school students desperately trying to entertain Haruhi and have her stay happy so she won’t destroy the world. She also has no idea shes god.

For another of the Design Assignments this week, I completed Create a T-Shirt.  Naturally, I had to create a shirt with a pug on it, and my website’s tagline “pugs not drugs.” As much as I wish this was my own creation and imagination, this saying has been used many times before I took it to heart! However, I have reimagined the phrase and created my own original t-shirt design. I’m sure there is a t-shirt out there somewhere with the saying, but none that I created. I like to think that the person wearing this shirt has a strong passion not only for healthy living and abstaining from drug use, but also a great love for puggies and their squishy faces. Wear this loud and proud! I know that I would Here is my creation:

I used clip art and text features for this image via Pixlr. The t-shirt, pug face and paw print came from a Google search for those specific items. You can access detailed instructions through my previous post on how to use Pixlr, upload image layers, and add text. Pay special attention to Steps 6-7 for adding image layers and text to your t-shirt.