KT Week - Thumbnails

Our next project was to design a t-shirt for the volunteers to wear at Maryville College's annual Kin Takahashi Week. During KT Week, altruistic alumni, students and faculty volunteer a week of their time to help do small repairs and additions to the MC campus. It is named after a distinguished who made a name for himself by doing things such as organizing and helping the construction of Bartlett Hall.




I began as always with the creation of thumbnails. I decided to do the front designs separately from the back. I wanted to keep me from being too fixed in my ideas of what should fit with what. Unfortunately, this isn't enough to compensate for bad design. For some reason I struggled to come up with ideas. On the front I generally just played round with moving the logo and a portrait of Takahashi. As far as original designs go for the front, the closest thing here was the pile of 3 bricks on the second page. It helped serve as an independent symbol for what the week was about.





The back designs didn't go any better. The idea I liked best was the idea of putting a map of the campus and saying "Where do you want to help?". Otherwise I didn't come up with anything I was particularly excited to use. Adrienne agreed that my designs weren't very well developed so I would have to step it up on in order to produce some viable roughs.