Idea: Commemorative T-shirts for Fictional Events
A friend of mine recently went to a convention for ventriloquists, and he brought me back a t-shirt from the event. It’s a nice enough shirt, but I feel weird about wearing it. I feel like I’m lying to everyone who sees me when I wear a shirt from an event I didn’t actually attend. Doesn’t wearing a shirt from an event make an implied statement that I was there?
Well, that got me thinking. What if I came up with t-shirts for events that never really happened? What if there were t-shirts for conventions, expos, gatherings, parades, and celebrations that don’t really exist? What implied statement does that make, exactly?
Well, now we can find out. I made a long list of imaginary events, and came up with t-shirt designs for nine of them. When I have time, maybe I’ll add some more. The ones I came up with are all available on t-shirts in the Ironic Sans store. So now you can wear a commemorative t-shirt from the following events that never really happened:
(Children’s Sizes Only)
Comments
Please fix the Balabananza design so you have an apostrophe instead of an opening single quotation mark. Your site’s got a typeface for its name! Please fix it. Pretty please?
Posted by: Carl Caputo | November 27, 2006 1:06 AM
Fixed it, Carl. Thanks for catching that! -David
Posted by: David | November 27, 2006 7:19 AM
i love the t-shirt designs
Posted by: michael | November 27, 2006 11:25 AM
Are these just events you made up yourself? I was thinking at first you’d make shirts for fictional events from TV/Movies/Books. I’d want a shirt from the Bi-mon-sci-fi-con!
Posted by: kathaclysm | November 27, 2006 11:46 AM
that is a great t shirt design, off the subject i saw some great punk t shirts on the urbane couture site.
Posted by: unidavalos | November 27, 2006 11:59 AM
To Carl Caputo: You might want to fix your post so it reads, “You site has a typeface…”
Also, maybe work on delivering constructive criticism without being such a dick about it.
Posted by: Chris | November 30, 2006 2:52 AM
Whoa, Chris. I thought my tone was joking but my request was serious. I wasn’t trying to be a dick, at all.
I hope David didn’t think I was trying to be a dick, anyway.
Thanks for the fix.
Also, I’m not fixing my post so it reads, “You site has” anything, but thanks for the help.
Posted by: Carl Caputo | December 23, 2006 9:30 PM
Agoraphobia isn’t funny.
Posted by: Amy | December 27, 2006 1:48 AM
These are some really great ideas. Our coach had some awesome custom t-shirts made up for our dive team at http://www.thespiritzone.com. We look great!
Posted by: Charlie | January 1, 2007 10:51 PM
Great stuff! Your T-shirt ideas remind me of my ‘Serial Killers Against Fascism’ T-shirt, available at an Amsterdam T-shirt store 10 yrs ago or so…
Blissings!
LESMANIA
Posted by: LESMANIA | January 8, 2007 2:33 PM
Please sign me up for the preunion.
Posted by: Travelina | January 13, 2007 5:45 PM
I had a tee from Universal Studios advertising the Amity Island swim team… My swim team at the time got a kick out of it.
What about the end of the Iraq war? I remember they had a big thing on the radio about the anniversary of that one mission accomplished speech… oh, wait, I think the radio thing was a couple of years ago.
Ha.
Posted by: Maya | May 30, 2008 5:51 PM