Most of you have some experience making t-shirts in the past, so this will likely not be too difficult, but it came to my attention that some people haven’t done enough of this and need a review.

Your task will be to make a t-shirt with your school-based logo on it, which you will give to a teacher in your chosen department/area. If you wish to make a shirt for yourself, you simply need to bring in a plain shirt or buy one of ours. Obviously, the one you give to the teacher will be free. You will need to check with the teacher to make sure that he/she wants one and find out which size. If you have more than one version of your logo, you can offer that person a choice, if you wish.

For some of you, your logo will already translate well onto the t-shirt process. Others will need to modify your logo to meet the following requirements/suggestions:

• You can/should cut and press 2-3 different colours, so your logo may need to be simplified. Remember that you are constrained by the colours that you see next to the cutter.
• You don’t want too much fine detail, or else it will be too hard to weed out, so some aspects of your logo may need to be simplified.
• Remember that you can use positive and negative space. (Positive being colours that you add to the shirt, and negative being areas where you use the t-shirt’s colour to fill in some gaps in your logo.

And of course, you should SHOW your Illustrator design file to me BEFORE you cut anything.

And, uh, don’t forget to cut it out BACKWARDS (reverse/flip your design when complete.)