Aspects of Winter – the T-Shirt

Link to Aspect of Winter T Shirt

Ok this is the final post about Aspects of Winter and I promise that the after this I will move onto something new.

I thought I would talk about how the Aspects of Winter T-Shirt came about.

It started with the original 3 image design and I wondered if it would look good as a wall print if I added the title to it. The image was always going to be called Aspects of Winter so I started adding the text above and below the image. At that point I realised that the font was part of the art and I had to find an appropriate font to carry the message. After some experimentation and quite a few rejected fonts I decided to use Lithos Pro. It had the feel of traditionalism and impact that I thought the image needed. With the font decided on I worked on the spacing of characters and words that to me at least worked best.

So I printed out some test copies. I always recommend testing. Its easy to work purely in the digital but when something is on paper you can often get a better feel for it.

I spent an evening looking the paper and decided that for wall and card art the images would probably look better on their own. Something kept niggling at me, it felt that I was missing a point.

That was when I thought T-Shirt!

So I made a note to work it into a T-Shirt. I finished off the print versions then I focussed on the Shirt. The spacing on the images had to change for the T-Shirt form factor but that wasn’t such a bad job.

That’s it – the Aspects of Winter T-Shirt came from the a printed test copy that didn’t work out. I’m very happy I made that print.