time for change(ing your tshirt)
so, even though i’ve been designing tshirts for a living for like 6 years, I rarely wear them. However, with the election coming up I dared ask myself: should I wear an OBAMA tee? and if so, should I buy one or make one? and if i buy one, should i care where the profits go (to obama or to the artist) and if i make one, should i make more than one and be involved in the previous conundrum.
i think, if you are wearing the tee you are advertising your candidate: and so the money could just go to the artist. However, i think the artist should be donating a % to obama or move on or another organization to help: because the message and the symbolism they are selling doesn’t belong to them.
In any case: here are some of my favorites:
nick and jaime always do a great job over at print liberation:
i like this moveon.org tee, but i think they knocked off the above print liberation’s style (however, move on gives money to register voters):
these two from screened are pretty good too:
and i would never wear this one: but i think its pretty funny:
and, just to show that barack obama is cooler than your average politician: he had a threadless-esque feature on his site for submitted tee ideas: unfortunately they are not as good as the ones above…