I won the Stanford ETL T-shirt Contest!

April 24th, 2009 | 7,262 views | 6 Comments » |

The 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:

Stanford Entrepreneurs. Just Start Up. - Copyright © 2009 Feross Aboukhadijeh

Stanford Entrepreneurs. Just Start Up.

Back of shirt:

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders - Back of the T-Shirt

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders - Back of the T-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!

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6 Comments on “I won the Stanford ETL T-shirt Contest!”

  1. 1 Uncle Tom said at 11:31 am on April 25th, 2009:

    I am very proud of you! Anyone would be proud of a nephew like you.
    Uncle Tom

  2. 2 Aunt Lois said at 11:41 am on April 25th, 2009:

    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

  3. 3 OMG, I just met Steve Ballmer! - Feross.org said at 11:08 pm on September 23rd, 2010:

    [...] 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. [...]

  4. 4 Aditya said at 11:20 am on March 29th, 2011:

    Awesome design. Loved your creativity. :) Good work!

  5. 5 Feross Aboukhadijeh said at 6:59 pm on March 29th, 2011:

    @Aditya – thanks! Glad you liked it!

  6. 6 Rajesh Namase said at 10:47 am on September 15th, 2011:

    Nice design, congrats :)

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