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I’d wear this

Would you?

Basic Sita T shirt design

By popular demand:

This is similar to what’s on the cafe press store, but it’ll be silkscreened and much higher quality. The gold color will hopefully be metallic.

I’m also investigating making cloisonne pins. I’ve always wanted a cloisonne pin of my design.

Sita and her Momz shirt design

UPDATE: hey my peeps what do you think of this version with the gold starburst?

By popular demand. Thoughts?

Shadow Puppet Shirt Designs

By popular demand. Click on a thumbnail to see the image. Comments welcome.

I spent today designing T shirts, and am making decisions regarding the silk screen process. Silkscreen looks great; it uses FLAT (“spot”) colors; and it costs more for every color used. More colors = significantly more expensive shirt, since every color gets a separate screen press.

So I’ve got two approaches:
1. colorful shirts using 6 to 8 colors = EXPENSIVE
2. one-color shirts (using gold in my examples) = CHEAP

What do you think? I’m working in a vacuum here and need some feedback.

More images after the fold.

Continue reading “Down in the T-shirt mines…”

Back from Nerd Central

And crazy busy. Chicago and Urbana and Ebertfest were great, amazing, beyond my ability to emotionally comprehend, I’ve never had a week like that before. Then to top it off, Sita won Best Narrative Feature at the Indian Film festival of Los Angeles, and moved to #1 on Critical Consensus. That’s just nuts.

Anyway, it was great being back in Urbana, my hometown, where nerds are made as well as born. I was raised nerd, by nerds, and it’s only a fluke that I appear to be an artist; my heart belongs to nerd-dom. Want proof? Here I am visiting family friend, genius, and art-supporter Theo Gray at Wolfram Research:
My Free Culture activism is nerdy too, inspired as it is by the Free Software movement. Theo doesn’t like it, and made fiercely pro-copyright arguments as only a proprietary software nerd can.

For contrast, here’s a picture of me with Richard Stallman in New York:

Whose side am I on, anyway? The side of NERDS!