My extended family went on an Alaskan Cruise out of Seattle this past summer. My parents graciously took their entire "clan" on a family vacation. (Thanks, Dad and Mom). No easy undertaking with all the different schedules, took a year to plan - 39 PEOPLE!!
Our family decided to do a cruise teeshirt. Yes, we knew it was tacky but ironically, it was very useful. Many of us are texting dependent when it came to communicating with each other; and on a big ship where there was no cell service....the shirts made us easy to spot each other. Even as we boarded the ship, people were making comments about seeing us (some comments, nicer than other, of course!). Even my daughter, Madelyn, fondly called us "a freak show" when we wore all our shirts.
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| About half of our group on the cruise ship |
It was my task to design the shirts. I did the calligraphy in black ink and scanned the pieces into Adobe Photoshop. I created the final logo and added the type in Adobe InDesign.
In homage to my dad, we used the Chinese character "YEE". The "established date" was the my parents anniversary year. The hardest part of the shirt was deciding the color - 39 different people, many opinions. We let my dad, our revered patriarch, decide - he chose RED...because it was most auspicious color.
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Yee Family Teeshirt Artwork
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| Our group wearing our Yee Family teeshirts (young and old!) |
Though the teeshirts may not get much wear now that the cruise is over, it is a wonderful memento of our family time together.
