TC Studio T-Shirt

Description

TopCoder Studio put out the call for an eye-catching and artistic t-shirt design that embodied Studio and its members to hand out to clients and members. My conceptual submission featured the two sides of Studio – coders and designers.

I wanted to realise that any one member could have a combination of both within them. Most of the time the two fields are somewhat kept apart but the truly gifted can handle both. To me, each represents one half of a complete skillset and indeed down to the two halves of our brains. One is the creative side and the other the logical. Design is free flowing and random where as coding and programming is more rigid and has a strict set of rules to follow.

Yet coding can be beautiful – it’s beauty lies in the almost minimal way it builds things. The repetition of elements and tags is a mosaic unto itself.

I also wanted to represent the sense of acheivement (or nirvana) we are all trying to achieve through design and programming.