Senior Powder Puff T-Shirts 2011

"If you are creative and would like to help with designing the powder puff t-shirt.  Please bring your design drawn out to Mrs. Kozar, Mrs. Bottini, or Lauren Fouts. 

The senior class t-shirts for the powder puff will be purple background with white writing (keep this color scheme in mind when making your design)."

After reading this email from my class advisor, I thought that I would give designing the shirts a shot. I knew the shirts should have a clever design and make clear that the senior class of 2012 dominates. I just wasn't sure of what this design should be though and what the witty saying should be on the shirt. 

So I started with the obvious, a football. I drew it with a sharpie and then scanned it in. I made 2012's instead of laces on the football. I had two ideas for sayings initially; "Straight up #Winning" which is a play of Charlie Sheen's tweets and "Bigger, Faster, Stronger" which is from Kanye's "Stronger".

After messing around here for a little, I came up with these designs:

I felt like these designs were rather bland though. In my opinion, the designs lacked character. So I went to work trying to come up with another shirt design. At our spirit assembly that happened on Friday, there was a chant that stood out to me. It was "This is Our House", which was yelled by the senior class.

At first, I was thinking maybe I should draw out a house with a sharpie marker, much in the same fashion as the football was. But I couldn't get past not using "#Winning" or "Bigger, Faster, Stronger", I felt that these were winning lines (pardon the pun).

Before I went to the Homecoming football game on Friday night, the idea came to me; I could use these lines and others to make the house. When I got home from the game, I went to work making the design.

None of the fonts that come pre-installed on my Mac or in Photoshop suited my fancy, so I went online and found a Marker font that I quite like. It provides that sketchy feel I wanted without my terrible handwriting.

The hardest part was coming up with more sayings. I have another Kanye related reference with "Watch the Throne Juniors", which is relating to 'Ye and Jay-Z's recent collaboration. The saying that people so far have had the most difficult time understanding is "Twenty One Two is gonna' own you"; Which should be read as "20 1 2 is gonna' own you".

One somewhat hidden aspect of my design is my placement of "#Winning". If you recall, I originally had it as "Straight Up #Winning" and now "#Winning" is oriented straight up and down.

Here is the design I made:

I was quite pleased with the design. I made the "Juniors vs. Seniors PowderPuff Game 2011" larger and more prominent after receiving some feedback. 

My mom thinks that this design is not feminine enough, so I made a second design. The second design is a play off of the "Life is Good" shirts and tweets.

I drew the lady football player and scanned it in. 

Then I edited it with Photoshop to add the football, text and proper coloring.

What do you think? Would you vote for either design? If so, which one?

If you would, there will be a quick vote after school on Friday Oct. 7th in Mrs. Kozar's room 265.

"If you are interested in purchasing a powder puff t-shirt, they will be available to the entire senior class.  Shirts will go on sale 10/10-10/17 for $15.  Please bring cash OR check made out to ALHS Student Council."