Last summer I played Softball on a team with a long-running history of hilarious team names. That year was no exception. I made our logo and we got these printed large and proud on our shirts and looked fab all season.

I posted this one earlier as a collection, but figured it deserved its own post.

Here’s an older drawing I did from a photo of my bro Adam and our family dog Baca. They’re both a lot older and bigger now.

Design for the Vibes dodgeball team shirt. It was pretty hard to make a character out of a phone that looked like it could kick ass at dodgeball so I took a different approach.

The non-basic app icons falling off the phone are the logos of the other companies competing in the tournament.

Here’s the team all geared up.

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A bunch of us at Vibes have entered the Chase Corporate Challenge race. 3.5 miles of pavement pounding in downtown Chicago. Here’s the logo I designed for our shirts. I’ll post photos when they’re printed.

Here’s how I made it

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  1. Sketch

  I made a few sketches using my running shoe as a reference. I chose this one and took a picture of it with the Photo Booth app.

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  2. Start a-Vectorin’!

  In Illustrator, I placed the scanned image as the top layer, set it’s opacity to 30% and it’s blending mode to Multiple. This let me create the vector shapes underneath the scan while using it as a reference.

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  3. BAD Vectors!!!

  So here’s a view of the finished illustration that shows all of the vector shapes that make it up. The negative shapes between the white parts of the illustration are actually strokes. This is kind of a disaster when trying to print on a shirt because you really only want one shape to describe the white image.

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  4. Ahh, that’s better

  After about an hour of cleaning up the vectors, I’m done. Check out the difference between this version and the one above it. Way cleaner and easier for a printer to interpret where the ink needs to go.

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  5. Halftone

  Because this is a one colour print (white on blue shirt), I needed to convert the faint speech bubble behind the shoe into a halftone pattern. This lets the printer simulate a fainter shade of the color it’s printing.

I’ve been having too much coffee at work.

On a shirt

Here’s the design as it might appear on a shirt. I used a halftone pattern to fade out the sunshine rays and shadow.

Got down with a sketchbook on Sunday morning and made this. Pencils into Photoshop. I’ve been thinking of putting together about 10 images in this style or so and printing some shirts eventually.

It’s a pencil drawing coloured in Photoshop.

Here’s a scan of the original.

Godspeed you Pawns!