Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Day 212



Open Adobe Illustrator.
Select 'star' tool, toggle points to 7.
Click, drag, release.
Apply blue fill.
Save.

That's pretty much the whole process to arrive at the design on the front of this T-shirt for Day 212 of my THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE challenge. A simple yet effective lonely star shape sat prominently in the centre of this otherwise black void.
The star actually forms the logo device of Seed & Spark, a film and video production group who rely on their crowd sourcing platform to fund projects. By extracting the device and giving it focus like this, the T-shirt becomes extraordinarily bold.

The quality of the print is equally dazzling and we have my favourite American print works to thank for that. Custom Ink based in Virginia are the folk behind the production of this garment and it will have come from a test run the company made before churning out the full batch.
I've lost count of the number of T-shirts Custom Ink have donated and just the other day I had an email from Blake informing me he had another batch ready to go!
I'm not sure I can expect Ian to foot the shipping bill a second time though; we may have to come to an arrangement over his web design.

See more from Custom Ink via their Twitter account

THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE Project

Hi, I’m Andi Best and I’m a regular guy, rising to an irregular challenge.

People tell me I have a lot of T-shirts. These people are not wrong, it’s true, I do.

But one person went as far as to tell me I have so many T-shirts, I could probably wear a different one every day. This is obviously not true, but it got me thinking - what if I could wear a different T-shirt every day? What if I never wore the same T-shirt twice for an entire year?

Challenge accepted

I have created project THREEHUNDREDANDSIXTEEFIVE which, beginning January 1st 2013, will track my pro gress sourcing and wearing a different T-shirt every day for the next 365 days – and I’m going to need your help to do it…

TAKE PART HERE