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February 4, 2015December 4, 2016

Customer Spotlight: Black and Pink

Black & Pink logo and mission statement

Black and Pink is an open family of LGBTQ prisoners and “free world” allies who support each other. Our work toward the abolition of the prison industrial complex is rooted in the experience of currently and formerly incarcerated people. We are outraged by the specific violence of the prison industrial complex against LGBTQ people, and respond through advocacy, education, direct service, and organizing.

I did not design the logo for this organization, but I did convert it for t-shirt printing at my shop.

February 3, 2015December 4, 2016

Illustration: Snowy Moonlit Field Holiday Card

This is a drawing I did many years ago for a holiday card. Because of all the snow we’ve been having in New England, posting this now feels very appropriate!

drawing of a snowy field with ski marks, trees, moon

February 2, 2015December 4, 2016

Graphic Art: Hosmer Elementary School

End result: white ink on a t-shirt. Intermediate step: negative line drawing on tracing paper!

Original photo and intermediate line drawing of the front entrance of the Hosmer Elementary School

Hosmer Elementary School text around a picture of the front entrance of the building

January 31, 2015December 4, 2016

Graphic Art: Beantown Boys Hockey

This is a project I worked on a couple years ago for a hockey team! It mainly involved vectorizing their original sketch and then separating the colors for printing.

progression from sketch to finished art: bean hockey player with bruins colors and red sox style B's

January 31, 2015December 4, 2016

Graphic Design and 3-color Separation: Baird Family Reunion logo in Plaid

I designed these shirts for my family’s reunion in 2012. As you can see, it’s a 3-color print, but the beauty of plaid makes it appear like 9 colors! Of course, this is the actual Baird tartan pattern, which makes it extra cool.

the word Baird filled with a tartan plaid pattern

Printed T-shirt: Baird logo

January 30, 2015December 4, 2016

Illustration: Longbranch

Here is a drawing I did for the Longbranch Family reunion a couple years ago – it eventually got printed on t-shirts for the family.

illustration of a tree with Longbranch written with the roots

January 30, 2015December 4, 2016

Customer Spotlight: Unstraight

I took this multi-color design and reduced it down to lavender and white on a black t-shirt. Shirts are for sale on their website.

unstraight band logo in 5 colors: one color for each woman

unstraight band logo converted into white and shades of lavender ink

Bio:

Unstraight takes all you ever wanted out of your imagination and channels it into instruments and amplifiers, swarming your ears and overwhelming your brain until you’re moving your body not knowing why. Taking alternative rock to the edges of its boundaries with electronic, punk, and garage; Unstraight does not walk the common path.

We are all women, all queer, and all you ever wanted.

xoxo
Unstraight

January 29, 2015December 4, 2016

Illustration: Ocean Wave

This is a stylized vector drawing of a wave, from a photograph.

photo of an ocean wave above, illustration below

January 28, 2015December 4, 2016

Illustration: Paint Cans

Here’s a vector drawing I did for screen printing 3 color, from a scan of a business card.

photo of paint cans above, illustration reduced to red, green and blue below

January 27, 2015December 4, 2016

Graphic Art: The Pit Bulls

This is one of the first art projects I did at my shop – back in 2006. I started with clip art from the internet, and traced a line drawing. I was so proud of this one that I had it printed on a shirt, and I walked around wearing it, even though, to this day, I have no idea who The Pitt Bulls were!

two images of a pit bull: one from the internet with a watermark, one a clean hand-drawing

Design: The Pit Bulls text with a pit bull underneath