I won the Stanford ETL T-shirt Contest!
April 24th, 2009 | 7,262 views | 6 Comments » | TweetThe Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders coordinators let me know on Wednesday that I am the winner of the T-Shirt contest I entered earlier this week!
They will be printing my shirt design and giving shirts away FOR FREE to all ETL students! (It looks like they have the whole Nike trademark issue sorted out. After all, Stanford has one of the largest Nike sponsorships in the world!) Here are the final images for the shirt.
Front of shirt:
Back of shirt:
They wanted Adobe Illustrator files of the design, so I had to learn to use Adobe Illustrator, which I’ve never used before. After about an hour, I was fluent with many of Illustrator’s powerful drawing tools. The most difficult part was drawing the Nike logo. I had to use an example Nike logo which I decreased the opacity on and then traced. Illustrator’s drawing/tracing tools are tricky at first, but very intuitive once you get the hang of them.
What do you guys think of the designs? I’m curious for some feedback since I’ve never designed a t-shirt before. Leave me a comment and let me know!



I am very proud of you! Anyone would be proud of a nephew like you.
Uncle Tom
Uncle Tom is not the only one proud of you, I am also. Very nice design! We send our love, you are great!!
Aunt Lois
[...] But, right then, Steve walked through the door — he was right it front of me! So, I just said “Hey Steve. I designed the shirt you’re wearing — can I get a picture?” It’s true. I designed the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders t-shirt. [...]
Awesome design. Loved your creativity.
Good work!
@Aditya – thanks! Glad you liked it!
Nice design, congrats