Saturday, July 31, 2010

Woot T-shirt Derby Time Again

Once again, it's time for the Woot T-shirt Derby. A few weeks ago, I decided to quit --- for reasons best not gotten into --- but a week later, I decided to un-quit --- because I was inspired by the theme. This week's theme is Physics and one of my favorite aspects of physics is how it applies to the game of pool. And I thought a couple images from pool would make a good T-shirt. So, I came up with this:

If you like it, you can vote for it by clicking here.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Woot T-shirt Derby -- City

This week's Woot T-shirt Derby theme is The City, and I'm pretty sure Sex In would be grounds for rejection. Instead, I started thinking about what I connect to cities, and that's the hustle and bustle. Of course, skylines and tall buildings, too, but that's a little too generic.

If you like what you see and the detailed pictures below, please click here and vote! Thanks.

I originally wanted the design to be much busier than this, with lots of traffic signs and billboards and a big "Open All Night" in neon, but ... aside from needing to stick to 6 colors and not having a good neon available, there comes a point where a design gets too busy. I would have easily exceeded that point.

Some details:
Washington DC's capitol building and part of the Golden Gate Bridge:

A statue of ... George Washington? ... and part of City Hall in Philadelphia:


A city traffic cop who could be almost anywhere, but is also based on the Philadelphia police:


A dinosaur skeleton from a Natural History Museum (or ... THE Natural History Museum, which is in DC):


One of those new big league "neighborhood" ballparks that could be anywhere, but this one is based on Philadelphia: