I’m so close now. I can almost taste it.

I’ve had a long time pipe dream to design some t shirts, make a few and then one day see someone out on the street wearing it. That would be super cool.

So after years of talking about it and being sick to death of my own crapness, I’ve finally got some head way with the dream. And as anyone who works in a creative field each day, it’s surprisingly hard to find time to work on your own projects outside of the work day.

My process so far:
Get the idea out of my head and make a napkin sketch.
Do nothing with it for about a year.
Talk it over with friends and get excited.
Do nothing again for about a year.
Make a prototype print with a test screen and an old GAP t shirt.
Do nothing again but wear my own t shirt for about two more years.
Get sick of wearing my own idea.
Take my napkin sketch and talk it over with some friends, a lot.
Take the sketch into Illustrator and draw a rough mock up of the shirts.
Write the story behind the idea.
Get excited.
Discuss the logic and the thinking behind the designs and check that it’s not a bunch of bollocks.
Talk things over with a few internet t shirt makers and get their advice on how they did it.
Talk at length about whether I should make the screens and print the t shirts myself, or find a printer to do it.
Realise that I don’t want to print the shirts myself per se, but want to design the shirts and then have someone else print them.
Find a local screen printer.
Make final drawings for printer.
Order my first twelve shirts from printer.
See my shirts for real and get super excited.
Think about making a web site myself to promote the t shirts, then soon realise that I’d be rubbish at it.
Find a designer who can create the website and get behind the thinking.

I think that I’ve found that designer and I think that things are going to work out great.

Man, it’s so close now…

Watch this space.