Row West Production Blog

I have a design for a micro solar cell, but that will wait until I get the stylus sorted out for my tablet.   The Gorge Elk regatta was this weekend.   I've been designing the regatta shirt since 1998 but this year, the workload in the shop was just too crazy to allow my brain to get creative.  Aside from the creativity, it also takes about a day to create the computer files for a shirt design, and then you're looking at around $1000 in blank t-shirts plus silkscreening costs.  It's a bit of a gamble and last year, the sales were terrible for the shirts.   Not that I think last year's shirt was the best design, but it wasn't the worst either.     So, this year I decided that I needed to step back and think about whether cotton t's are the best regatta memento.   I think they still work for Junior regattas, but most senior rowers already have drawers packed with rowing t's.   Regardless of how cool a design is, do they really need another t-shirt?   I'll be looking at the logistics of doing a technical shirt for future regattas.  

Anyway, here are my favourite designs that I've done for Gorge/Elk weekend.
1998 - with assistance from Adrian McFarlane and Mike Grace

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2005

 2006

 2007

2008