Katie came home from work a few weeks ago and wanted to know if I’d be inter­ested in design­ing a t-shirt for UBC Botan­ical Garden (http://www NULL.ubcbotan­ic­al­garden NULL.org), where she’s the Mar­ket­ing and Com­mu­nic­a­tions Manager. The Garden just launched their Young Explorers Summer Day Camp (http://www NULL.ubcbotan­ic­al­garden NULL.org/kids/summer-camp NULL.php), and was looking for a t-shirt for the kids to wear. The only catch to this t-shirt design… It needed to be done as soon as pos­sible so that it could go out to the printer the next day. We both had a bit of work to do that night, but I took a few minutes and put together a few dif­fer­ent con­cepts to choose from. First thing the fol­low­ing morning, a few of the staff selec­ted this design as the winner, and the artwork was emailed over to the printer right away.

The staff liked the new design so much they ordered addi­tional sizes so that they could have some too. The design was printed on 100% organic cotton shirts using a ‘dis­charge’ tech­nique where the graphic is bleached into the shirt, as opposed to print­ing ink that sits on top of the shirt. Sounds like the kids are loving them too, so if they’re happy – I’m happy.

Above are a couple photos of the final printed shirt.