Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-artwork (81 mails)

[Helen <postmodernhousewife@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

this is my first post to the list; I've only been lurking a little
while, but wanted to add a few thoughts on the designs. I'm coming
from a Fine Art background and teach drawing.

I agree that most freebie Tshirts are things I never want my husband
to wear! And I'd never be caught dead in!  Also I like to wear shirts
with jackets, and a partial logo just looks 'messy'.

The problem is that so often the logos look 'stuck on'. They are hard
edged, clearly advertising, with very little artistic merit. Good as a
logo on a sticker or box, but they are not fashion.

Tshirts with a shirt-pocket-location logo, or with a rectangular
design plastered down the front are so 'old hat'. Boring!

Check out the Ubuntu shop - I'd love a Suse shirt like the women's
lynx Tshirt, with the logo down on the side. The design is loose and
expressive. Logos that run down one side of a shirt, from the
shoulder, along the hem or pocket, or that look like they are an
integrated design in the fabric (not stuck on the front by a
screenprinter) look interesting. Also, think about how much
information is on there - there doesn't need to be a lot. You don't
have to spell everything out in black-and-white.

The city skyline is great but with the straight text underneath, it
looks unbalanced - because it all goes gradually upwards, it seems as
if it's on a slope. What about doing the skyline and swinging the line
down and continuing with the same line around a Chameleon - a unified,
connected design, as suggested earlier. It would look great done to
look like a relaxed ink line, pencil or even stitching.

I promise to make my next posts much more concise and to the point!
And I'll be doing some artwork to share soon also.

regards,

Helen
in Australia
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