This was the first on the alien abduction phenomena. I think everybody knows what that’s about more or less. My first thoughts were of the title sequence for the mini series Taken where the guy gets lifted up, but I didn’t want it to be as serious as all that. I thought another way to go would be a kind of comical pose.
There wasn’t much design work to do for this shirt, and it may not necessarily belong on this site, but it always makes me smile. There wasn’t a lot of design work to do because it was mostly done for me. At the first design job I took out of college, I often would talk to people about ghost stories or paranormal stuff and this was actually on my computer monitor once when I got up to go use the bathroom or something. I just liked the idea that a ghost comes by to haunt the place, there is nobody around, so the spirit leaves a haunted calling card. Sorry we missed you, boo.
The beginning and end of this design.
This was something I had wanted to do for a long time, but I couldn’t think of how to use it. Ink splat ghosts. A year or so ago I started a design company called Thunked Up Media, and one of my ideas for marketing was to create a tshirt with original ink blots on them. You know the ones you see psychiatrists using in movies where you look at these abstract ink blobs and describe what you see? I can’t think of the name right now. Anyway we were experimenting with a method to create one of a kind ink splat shirts and they would say Thunked Up Media on them and everything. I guess what I’m saying is that I”ve been flinging paint on stuff for years now and trying to figure out how to turn those blobs into things.