This is 201'09 design done this year (right). the original (left).
the shirt hasn't been printed, though i hope it will be.
the process has been on hiatus, or worse stopped. i don't know which it is.
this piece was a part 2 of an assignment, where we were to design our s4 camp tees.
The first few tee designs I had (check archives) were solely on creating a design that represented what I was doing. But over the years, designing tee designs, now had the task to incorporate meaning and relevance in them. So what if it was representational, like art pieces, what do you what to show? What is the thing you want to tell people through the design?
As for this one, it started out as an attempt to "dissect" a nanyang girl, and lay out the things that are being commonly associated to us. I felt that respect for self is something to be gained only when one chooses to conduct themselves with integrity, be it objects or human beings. I tried to show the importance of that 'everything else'- appreciation of own's good qualities, as well as the things and people who help her achieve success- (through her disassembled objects- for that are what makes her a nanyang girl)
The image and video I got inspired by- the act of disassembling. And thus, I came up with the idea of laying out the things we had and used on a daily basis and used a top-down approach for the design. The girl in the center, therefore appears to be lying down.
Did you ever know how many different parts it takes to simply assemble one of those cars out there on the streets? We often take for granted that the car is just simply being manufactured out there by the producers, but we fail to realize the painstaking manufacture of all those various parts which makes up the car. Watch the video, and you'd realise how much how much it is needed to simply assemble one of them. Shocking, isn't it?
I wanted to tell people that every single part that makes you who you are is equally important, because you might never know, if without just one of them, you might not be who you are today.
Hi Valerie! I really hope that the design will be printed too! It is a very nice, clean, simple design. It stands out because it is honest and not a cliché. And most of all, it draws from our experience from Sec 1 and 2. Those experiences are all a part of us I like how you translated the concept shown in the video into a 2-D design - it makes the design so much more meaningful :)
ReplyDeleteAgreed! :-) I really like your design because it represents our class well! And it was done with simple designs in black and white (1 colour and 1 background colour) - which is what student's t-shirt designs have to be in usually to cut down on cost.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad that you were willing to edit your LSC t-shirt design to suit our class better! It makes it much more closer to everyone of us from 201!