Nemo Design Employee t-Shirts
Lately, I haven’t had a chance to share much of my design work since it’s been mostly freelance for my clients and work for Nemo (and their clients). But this week, I got a really fun assignment. One of my tasks was to come up with a t-shirt design for the Nemo employees that could be handed out at the end of our semi-annual meeting on Thursday.
The challenge was to make the design Nemo-centric but to avoid simply slapping the nemo logo across the shirt in an obvious way. My idea was to make a collage of things that represent Nemo as a company and more specifically, to include references to some of our employees. After I got started, my art director Chris stepped in with a list of all the random one-liners I could ever need.
So, thank you to Chris for inspiration, last-minute re-arranging and additions, to Rodger for the hillarious illustrations of the Airsoft gun, taser and ‘Spotted Dick’ (whatever that means!) and to Lee for getting them printed just in time. I love working for a company that has a sense of humor!
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Haha! This is brilliant!
You’re so fabulous!
I love all of these little phrases, even though I wasn’t there for these jokes I can imagine how the conversations went!
And I think spotted Dick is a cake…although it’s much more fun if you don’t know that! I mean “Spotted Dick”?! Who came up with that?! Either they were really funny, or really naive!
And now I think Badassery is my new favourite word!
Thanks,
Vixxie.
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And sorry to double post but can I buy one of these?!
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Wow! This looks rad, Nubs!
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Ooh, it looks really cool!
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I want to work for a company whose shirts would look like that!
Great job!
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I love it!
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great design, nubs. love it.
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If only all companies hired you to design their corporate t-shirts!
Spotted Dick is British steamed pudding – delicious, but I’d be a bit dubious about a canned version…And Vixxie, the pudding came before the use of the word “dick” as we know it
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haha. This is great! I love that it’s one-liners rather than a logo or something really obvious. Great job, Nubby!
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Vixxie: Thanks for filling me in! I was totally clueless if ‘Spotted Dick’ was even real! Right now, the shirts are for employees only, but Nemo is launching a new online store later in the year and I can talk to them about adding the shirts to the lineup.
star: Thanks! I need to repond to your email also….bad nubs.
Jazzi: Yeah…and the one-liners kept getting lewder every time I glanced over at my IM conversation!
Boffcat: Hmm….steamed pudding?!!
Casey: Thanks, Nemo isn’t a very ‘look at me’ sort of company; they’re more sly and clever than that, so the logo would’ve been too self-serving.
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Spotted Dick is delicious, you often buy it in the can and then boil it so the pudding cooks by steaming, then you cover it in custard. It’s spotted because of the currants. Heinz do spotted dick and treacle pudding in cans like that,they are good times indeed.
Also fantastic top! Great work.
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Nice! It reminds me of a trash bin that my dad uses in his studio–it’s an old metal trashcan from the late 60′s or 70′s with timely slogans all over it. God, I’m racking my brain trying to come up with one as an example–oh yes, “Chairman Mao is a fink!” That’s one! hahaha…
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Damn! I love wearing shirts that imply I work somewhere that I don’t. I have one that says I’m on my schools tech team, I have a tie from a different school and I really wanted to add this to my list! Drats – but I will SO be there when the shop launches!
Vixxie.
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love the shirt, nubby!
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OH! I actually cackled out loud and nearly had a chai tea + nose incident.
The Heinz spotted dick in a can!!!!!! HAH!
I wonder if that ever made it into the Warhol collection…
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can i buy one
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ADRI: Right now the design is for employees only (hence the ridiculous amount of inside jokes)…but perhaps Nemo will eventually release it to outsiders!
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