My co-worker Ric Wheeler asked if I’d be interested in trying my hand at a design for this year’s Linux Plumbers’ Conference T-shirt. I wasn’t quite sure where to start so I asked around for ideas on identi.ca and it started a great discussion with the ideas I ended up using. One of the ideas was a fun play on certain overweight Italian plumbers:
As you can see from my awesome notations, this is kind of not something we can do. Hmm. Jezra had the idea to form the letters “LINUX” using pipes – so I tried that with a much more subtle Tux popping out of the ‘I’ pipe. What do you think?
Sources, etc. are available. I don’t know if this will be the shirt so stay tuned. I do think this is a nice story on how open discussion in the community can result in some great ideas, either way!
Looks great, looking forward to getting one in November
Posted by Christian Hergert | September 23, 2010, 4:45 pmThat *rocks*. Any chance the conference might consider selling the shirts afterward as well? I don’t expect I’ll manage to attend this year, but I’d love to have a shirt that awesome, and perhaps the sold versions could help fund next year’s conference.
Posted by Anonymous | September 23, 2010, 7:20 pmSuch a shame it’s not allowed ! Still the pipes are nice.
Posted by Stu | September 24, 2010, 12:07 amSweet! I wish more conferences had t-shirts that I like to wear …outside of conferences. So far I only have the GNOME one by Andreas Nilsson
Posted by Hylke | September 24, 2010, 6:06 amA shirt like this would be great for the linux.conf.au Southern Plumbers miniconf…
Great shirt!
Posted by DDevine | September 24, 2010, 8:51 amIt looks a lot nicer than the “italian penguin plumber” version XD.
congrats.
Posted by Pablo Estefó | September 25, 2010, 12:46 pm