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Focus Direction, Design
Products Objects, Merch
Team Creative Direction: Johnathon Cramer
Art Direction and Graphic Design: Ophelia Overton

Goals 01. Create merch that’s branded but not a hard sell.
02. Make it technical but artful.
03. Explore a proof point for a Production Team sub-brand.

Context 
This is a t-shirt design for a client I’ve collaborated with a few times now (on things like Sundown and Reprieve). When he found himself at Invisible North, he wanted to thank the production team for a great year and reached out to create a special holiday gift.

Approach
The client didn’t want a logo just slapped on a shirt; he wanted the piece to feel artful, technical, and reflective of the hard, beautiful work these folks do. It had to look specific to the team, yet still part of the Invisible North family. This symbol-heavy structure is more of a wink than an announcement, something insiders would get but would still look like a cool shirt to others.  

Outcome
It was a great introduction to their freelance team; the final run was produced in-house.



This was so much fun to make, and full of easter eggs for the
careful eye: numbers, phrases, and shapes important to the team.




The key to a bit of organized chaos was to create
relationships between the shapes.





Technical Blueprints  & State Seal
made with image tracing + good ol’ pen in Illustrator

Dissolve Elements
made with dissolve blend mode in Photoshop

Globes
from a shapes pack I’ve had on my desktop forever

Everything else was made in Illustrator.