jugglefest 2000 designs

Jugglefest t-shirt designs
** added these 01/12/00 early AM **
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Ok, folks, Our 7th annual jugglefest is less than a month away and that means it is time to choose a t-shirt design...

Here are some *very* rough drafts for you to examine and comment on. I'll be working on these for the next couple of days and will bring more finalized versions to juggling on Thursday. I think we need to pick a design and color combos by next Thursday at the latest. (Jim - when are you and Deb going to meet with the t-shirt people?)

You can skip the text and just look at the pretty pictures if you want... I just wanted to give some background on the design.

If you have *any* suggestions, send them my way - meredee@hotmail.com Thanks

Design set #1: The group that went to the IJA convention in Niagara came back with the idea for this design. The idea was "Juggle Shampoo" - a club-shaped bottle of shampoo with the tag line "Throw, Catch, Repeat."

Well, I had difficulty drawing a bottle that looked enough like a juggling club to be recognizable, but proportioned to allow the text to be legible. It's just too long and skinny. In most attempts, if my club-shaped bottle was centered on a shirt, it would look like a funny tie! Someone (Jeremy?) suggested just making a "juggle shampoo" label and pretending the shirt itself formed the bottle, which I think is a good idea.

I put the design on a navy blue background because I liked the result...Colors are certainly flexible.

So here's what I came up with:

for the front breast pocket area (smallish):

OR a different version with bubbles!

for the back of the shirt (largish):

OR the back of the shirt with bubbles!

("the throw, catch, repeat" is in a font called Beesknees,
and the rest of the text is in a font called Snap, in case you were wondering)

Design #2
This next design is a bit of my own folly, just because I saw one of those "Animal friendly" vanity license plates. I figure that Texas is a pretty "Juggle friendly" state and I didn't think Duane (?) would mind if I borrowed the text of his licence plate.

PJ made the suggestion of using our juggle guy logo...

I have a few text variations on this one that I'll bring to juggling on Thursday,
along with a test pattern of the design with different "shirt color" backgrounds

The juggler person on the unicycle is just a little sketch I made - definitely can be changed.
If anyone wants to use this one as a festival shirt, I suppose this could be the front and I could make a corresponding "back plate" with Jugglefest as the main text and the other festival info (date, 7th annual, Austin) could be put in the spaces where they used to put the expiration stickers.
I don't remember what the fonts are...I do know I stretched the "Juggler" text out
The four black circles are the bolt holes for attaching the plate to your car.

That's all for now. Send input and suggestions to inspire me.

created 01/11/2000, last updated 01/12/2000
Meredith E. Worthen, meredee@hotmail.com