During my time at Yarrington Mills Corp., I was able to produce various apparel designs for occasional creative projects the art team was assigned to. The images are mock-ups of what the finished designs would have looked like.

RUDIS Basketball Jersey

For this project, we were requested to design a sample uniform kit for a customer, Rudis, that used some old art elements from a past order. For my general branding kit, I chose a gnarled hawk sketch and updated the colors to include blue and orange. I wanted the art to seem lighter and more open as a design, while adding some texture that linked back to the style of the hawk in the form of the airy ombre cloudlines, which fade in and out of the main light blue background. Meanwhile, the orange is used minimally, only seen in small highlights of the bird, and in the team name, so that it would stand out more in contrast to blues and whites of the jersey.

YMC Lacrosse Uniform Sample

This was part of an update to the company’s current sample line up, which would then be presented for reference to customers as well as display items for conferences and trade shows. I was assigned the Lacrosse Uniform, which included both a jersey and a pair of shorts. Similar to the Rudis project, we were required to use art elements previously used in older orders. I found a stunning argyle pattern that utilized orange and white, so I decided to take a halloween spin on the pattern. I swapped out the main white accents with black, and had the pattern run across the body of the shorts rather than limiting them to a side-seam accent. I gave the look a more vintage grunge-look to reflect the mascot of the fake team, by adding texture in the form of black distress at the shoulders of the jersey and portions of the shorts, as well as combining block athletic fonts with a jagged scratchy sans-serif font for greater contrast and visual hierarchy.

Cisco Q-Zip Sample

This sample was to provide a customer with examples of Yarrington’s printing capabilities through sublimation. We were allowed complete creative freedom, so I chose to make a more fashion oriented quarter zip as opposed to a standard athletic team pull over, though after some revisions with the other team members, a fake team name was added to show that it could be customizable. I created an asymmetrical cut out on the front and back through the wave of bats that would lead the eye to the team name “vampyres”, and chose a limited color palette of black, white, and red so that each art element would further stand out. In order to create depth, I added a transparent block-print style vector of a bat in the background to further guide the eye toward the team name and white bat, as well as act as a lead-in to the bat wings on the sleeves. A grunge layover was added to give the apparel more texture and add to the horror aesthetic of the overall design.