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Team Pie and Team Cake Shirts

Post author:HFM
Post published:March 6, 2013
Post category:Cakes and Desserts My Design Work

I’ve been meaning to make these shirts since the first Twilight movie came out, because I never cared much for Edward or Jacob, but I do care a lot about dessert. I also have a vague recollection of having a (semi-sober) discussion (argument) with someone about whether cake or pie was better, which was quite a silly thing to have a disagreement about because everyone knows that pie is better than cake. Thankfully, I don’t remember with whom I was having this discussion, so I can’t hold their wrong opinion against them. (Notice I was nice enough to make a shirt for the misguided cake-espousers. Because I’ll take their money, even though they’re wrong.)

Team Pie and Team Cake Shirts, for sale on redbubble.com.

Indianapolis Reform School Band Shirt

Post author:HFM
Post published:February 19, 2013
Post category:My Design Work

A shirt design I put together, inspired by this photo:

The Marching Delinquents. Now that’s a school band I imagine I could fit into.

Unreliable Narrator Shirt

Post author:HFM
Post published:February 15, 2013
Post category:My Design Work

I was reading The Story Within the other day, and in the middle of the chapter about points of view, they have a section on the concept of The Unreliable Narrator [An unreliable narrator is a narrator, whether in literature, film, or theatre, whose credibility has been seriously compromised.] which is concept I’ve always loved. And the first character that springs to my mind when I hear that term is Holden Caulfield, although he’s probably not the best example. And when I think of Holden Caufield, I always think of this book cover….

Which is how I ended up designing this shirt. Which I proudly wear, because, hey, that’s pretty funny.

Aesthetics Department T-Shirt

Post author:HFM
Post published:January 26, 2013
Post category:My Design Work

I saw some sweatshirts like this years ago in a catalog when I was too poor to buy one. Now that I’m older and have more disposable income, I haven’t found one like it – at least not a nicely designed one. So I made one for me. For sale on Redbubble.com.

Aesthetics Department Shirt

Screwing around in photoshop

Post author:HFM
Post published:September 26, 2007
Post category:My Design Work

Making some half-ass wallpapers for my iPhone

PARODY of the "Citizens Concerned for the Constitution" Logo

Post author:HFM
Post published:February 15, 2005
Post category:GLBT Issues Indiana Indianapolis My Design Work Politics

Eric Miller’s right-wing anti-LGBTQ+ hate group “Advance America” used to be called “Citizens Concerned for the Constitution.” This group has spent years lobbying in the Indiana State legislature on anti-LGBTQ+ legal issues intended to marginalize and eliminate LGBTQ+ folks from Indiana’s population. These are the folks that introduced legislation in the 1990s to get LGBTQ+ people rounded up and “quarantined” in containment facilities as a proposed solution to the AIDS crisis. They also proposed legislation making it illegal for lesbians to get artificial insemination from sperm banks.

Citizens Concerned for the Constitution used to have this Art Deco-Type logo that was reminiscent of Nazi propaganda posters. When I saw it, I immediately realized how easy it would be to parody, and so I did. I created this PARODY logo, making the macho man in the middle into a gay male couple, and adding a nice well-muscled woman into the group for lesbian interest.

When I put the image on posters at a lobbying event that took place at the Statehouse, people from the organization were really not happy.