Snee Farm Swim Team – another year of graduates!

Head Coach, Jason Kreutner has served the Snee Farm Swim Team since 1990. He works with me almost every year to produce the Senior T-Shirts for the graduates of the team. I’ve been a part of the screen printing industry and worked with screen printers for years and I’ve seen a lot of changes come about such as DTG printing, softer inks, better print techniques and more use of the tee color in designing. It’s easy to get caught up in working on a design in Illustrator and forget the t-shirt aspect. Here’s an example of where I started with this 2022 Snee Farm Graphic and how the final design turned out. Much more shirt color involved and fewer straight lines that can get distorted on a tee. The kids were happy with the final design and so was my screen printer. To read more about the Snee Farm Swim Team and it’s 50+ year history, take a look here: 

https://www.sneefarmswimteam.org/index.html

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Time again for the T-shirt design for the University School of the Lowcountry!

Another year of graduates for the University School of the Lowcountry! Founded in 2007, University School of the Lowcountry (USL) is an award-winning non-profit, 50 tax-exempt, independent school in Mount Pleasant, SC serving grades 3-12 in a co-educational and non-sectarian environment. I have been designing the t-shirts almost every year and am always amazed as I incorporate the events, field trips, local outings, competitions and community service the school takes part in year after year.

As Jason Kreutner, Head of School said in an interview; “All of our students in our grades 3 to 12 contribute 50-plus hours of service to the community each year. We value empathy and active citizenship, so we integrate these hours of community service into our regular school day program.”

As the years have gone by, the list of activities, along with related graphics has expanded and fitting it all onto a t-shirt is a challenge. The puzzle eventually falls into place and my job is to make it attractive, legible and fun. I work directly with Jason Kreutner and together we decide upon colors and composition. Font size and style is always important for legibility and clip art must be converted into vector images. Tricky, but fun, designing the University School of the Lowcountry graduation tee is always an enjoyable project. And yay! – the kids seem to like the new tees! 

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Snee Farm Swim Team T-shirt for Seniors

After a year of delays for the Snee Farm Team, due to COVID, we completed the 2019-2020 Tee Graphic! I’m pretty sure I started designing the Snee Farm Swim Team tees in 2014, but it may have been earlier than that. It’s been a fun journey and boy, have we done a lot of different designs over the years. With the direction of Jason Kreutner, the team’s coach, it’s been a yearly event to create a new tee design for the graduating seniors. You can see a number of the designs on my website here:

lefthandgraphicdesign.com/portfolio-tee-shirts

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New t-shirt line from Blaze in Charleston, SC.

The start of a new partnership with BlazethatTrail.com here in Charleston, SC. BLAZE helps cities, counties, non-profit and state organizations discover better information. They spend time shooting the photography, documenting new points of interest and writing the copy to develop visitor, tourism and recreation Guidebooks. Operating since 2009, the company photographs the BEST reasons for people to visit locations with gorgeous photography … discovering points of interest that have never been photographed or documented in a county.

And now the Blaze team is at work on a new project. They are developing a t-shirt line to market here in Charleston and beyond. I just designed this first t-shirt graphic … with more to come … and I think it’s going to be a blast. Using a mix of fun fonts and filling different silhouettes with clever sayings, the line will offer tees you’ll want to wear and gift! I’ll update as soon as the line becomes available. 

blazethattrail.com

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End-of-Year t-shirt for graduating seniors at University School of the Lowcountry, Mt. Pleasant SC.

Each year I have the opportunity to design the end-of-year tee shirt for the University of the Lowcountry school in Mt Pleasant, SC. The school goes on an amazing amount of field trips throughout the Lowcountry and beyond, exposing the kids to many educational places,  events and people. We include lists of those field trips on the tee design, along with relating icons and a list of the graduating seniors … which makes it a big puzzle for me to put together.  I work closely with the Head of School, Jason Kreutner, who provides all the information and the ideas for the icons. He always wants the tee to be bright and colorful and include the University School of the Lowcountry logo, which I designed in 2007 when the school was founded.

University School of the Lowcountry (USL) is a small independent school, serving grades 3-12 in a co-educational and non-sectarian environment. The school offers a challenging and individualized curriculum. I’ve enjoyed being involved with the end-of-year tees each year and hope the relationship continues as I watch this growing school continue to develop and expand. 

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When Scout and Zoe’s contacted me about designing a tee shirt for Year of the Dog, I jumped at the chance …

The best job I ever had was being the art director for a screen printing company for 15 years. I love doing tee shirt graphics, and enjoyed every aspect of that job. When Scout and Zoe’s contacted me about designing a tee shirt for Year of the Dog, I jumped at the chance. Fortunately, The owner of Scout and Zoe’s basically gave me free reign on the graphic which is always a nice gift from a client.  Because this was my first time doing any work for the company, the first thing I did was peruse her website.

Scout and Zoe’s is basically all about dogs. Cindy Dunston Quirk is a dog lover and started her company when she couldn’t find dog chews that were safe for her German shepherd, Zoe. Zoe had allergies and could not eat any bovine products. Cindy’s website has an extensive offering of premium, USDA grade A quality, human-grade raw ingredients for all of their treats. Every single item is USA sourced and produced in a USDA inspected facility. And along with the treats, Cindy also has human products!

Excited about it being the Year of the Dog, Cindy wanted a cute tee shirt for her customers and friends. Using a photo of her dog, Scout, some year of the dog symbols and the colors of the Scout and Zoe’s logo, I developed several roughs for Cindy to look over. She loved them and with some fine-tuning we finalized the tee with this design which included the left chest, a full back, and a simple back tag. After completing the tee design, I also designed some small buttons with the Year of the Dog for giveaways. 

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