Npk – Slant t-shirt.

This is the eleventh Nottingham Parkour [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] t-shirt to be made. I decided to once again go for a more simplistic design, a clear, bold logo of the community. The idea behind this design was to have a new Npk logo compared to the old 2006 [1] one which has since aged. On the last few videos there is a new logo on the top left of them, a small Npk which is the same logo (seen below) that is now on a t-shirt, minus the lines.

 

 

The N, P and K letters are all merged together as one big letter. Although, if you stare at it for too long you don’t really see the letters for what they actually are, it’s like a optical illusion. The next step was having something different as opposed to it just being horizontal. I decided to tilt it at a slight 25 degree angle for a nice effect. It was okay, but still needed something else, even then. I didn’t want to say box it in like I have in the past…

That is when I decided to put the two lines one above and one below the Npk. This worked, but it also didn’t look right and this is when I added to the top bar Nottingham and the below one Parkour Community. Originally, on the first prototype it read ‘Parkour Community’ and in the bottom bar the web address. The t-shirt really stands out and can be read from afar and still be clear as day.

So far this t-shirt has been slow for people wanting it, which is odd as I would have expected it to have done well. Although, the few people who do own one seem to stand out while at training, compared to all the other ‘Roadkill’ designs which everyone seems to have at the present time. Over time I’m sure others will prefer the simplicity of this design or want something different. Below are a few colours of the design.

 

Npk – Slant t-shirt.

Npk – Slant t-shirt.

Npk – Slant t-shirt.

Npk – Slant t-shirt.

Npk – Slant t-shirt.

Npk – Slant t-shirt.

Npk – Slant t-shirt.

 

Npk – Broken Text t-shirt.

The seventh [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Npk t-shirt design. I wanted a new t-shirt design to compete with the famous ‘Npk Splat’ design that everyone from Npk seems to wearing currently. I also still love the jogging bottoms text as well and so wanted to combined the two perhaps and see what happened. In the end that was harder than I had thought and so I decided instead to just use the text from the jogging bottoms and have that on a t-shirt instead but with both words facing right and having the text being aligned down the right side of the tee, the same as the joggers.

 

Npk – Broken Text Design.

 

Npk – Broken Text Design.

 

This works well and looks I think better with the text facing to the right, than having the text exactly the same as the jogging bottoms. But who am I to say others may not find the opposite more appealing. I’ve included both versions below which people can have. I did not want it to be the usual horizontal text like most designs are, I mean that would have looked clean and nice, but I wanted to use the t-shirt in a different way but yet still keep the cool style. I also included on the prototype an Npk on the sleeve too.

I did experiment with the text being aligned down the centre of the tee, which looked too strange, and I didn’t want it to be the other side of the shirt to be opposite to what we have the jogging bottoms design. Again, this design hasn’t been the most popular as of yet, but I do love seeing people wearing it that have had one. Just in the way the jogging bottoms stand out, this design too. perhaps that is because of it being a new design still though…

 

Npk – Broken Text.

Npk – Broken Text.

Npk – Broken Text.

Npk – Broken Text.

Npk – Broken Text.

Npk – Broken Text.

Npk – Broken Text.

 

Npk – Splat t-shirt.

This is the fifth in a series of [1] [2] [3] [4] t-shirt design for the Parkour Nottingham (Npk) community. I wanted something grungy, urban and unique. Something more complex, which would look cool and be great to wear while out training on the streets.  Easier said than done, it had to be not too complex, if it was to be printed on a tee as I found out later. I didn’t want to create something for the sake of it and have it looking mediocre that anyone could create. Most designs out there currently seem to be of the urban grunge effect. It had to be something which I was happy with design wise and would want to and be proud to wear myself.

 

Npk – Splat Design.

 

I had originally took the ‘Graffiti Npk Logo’ (displayed below) which I’ve always used on videos to be used as a template for printing. Sadly it would have had to have been screen printed and that in itself cost quite a bit of money and is generally used for batch printing, so that ruled that design out! Even though I do love the design, I might have to look into other online options if I really did want that one printing. It could have been used as a transfer, but that would have looked cheap and could only be on black t-shirts. I also tried to add a boarder to contain the design, but that also looked odd and wouldn’t have worked either.

I started creating various designs which all seemed to be too complicated or weren’t original enough for my liking to be printed. It’s easy to spend hours on overly complicated ones in Photoshop, without really knowing how or what can be printed on clothing per say. Sat there hoping to create an idea by chance or something brilliant by accident. I mean that is how designs are born, right?! I spent about a week or so on the design, it came from an idea of having it look like a tin of paint had spilt on the t-shirt. The rest was getting the right text within the splat, the web address and anything else.

 

Graffiti Npk Logo.

 

I completed two samples, one which was A5 size and one which was A4 . The A4 design came out better then the A5 one. Even though, not all the small paint splats could be picked out. If everything had came out on the A5 design it would have been great. I have since then tweaked the design making it simpler and less paint splatter, so when it was printed again it would pick up everything on the design with no trouble at all. I have since got some printed and it looks even more incredible than the test ones I got printed.

Since wearing the first prototypes of the design on a black t-shirt with a white logo, lots of people have been wanting one, either in black or bolder colours. Even though I knew it wasn’t that good, people liked it and preferred it to the past designs. This is great as the community will be flooded with people wearing the design, all feeling apart of something unique and able to have something to show for their training efforts. Some of the slight alterations included breaking up of the letters, fixing parts which didn’t look too great. It looks now tonnes better and I’ve even included a small smiley face in the design.

Below are various different colour choices people have had of the design.

 

Copper on Black – Splat.

White on Yellow – Splat.

Blue on Orange – Splat.

Blue on Gray – Splat.

Copper on Black – Splat.

Yellow on Green – Splat.

White on Orange – Splat.

Black on Fluorescent Yellow – Splat.

White on Yellow – Splat.

White on Cedar Red – Splat.

Black on Yellow – Splat.

Navy Blue on White – Splat.

Pink on White – Splat.

White on Blue – Splat.

White on Yellow – Splat.

White on Cedar Red – Splat.

Red on Blue – Splat.

Copper on Black – Splat.

Light Blue on Gray – Splat.

White on Sapphire – Splat.

White on Orange – Splat.

Light Blue on Gray – Splat.

Blue on Orange – Splat.

White on Caramel – Splat.

Pink on White – Splat.

White on Red – Splat.

Black on Yellow – Splat.

Yellow on Teal – Splat.

Silver on Black – Splat.

Red on Black – Splat.

Black on White – Splat.

White on Blue – Splat.

Gold on White – Splat.

Red on Yellow – Splat.

White on Caramel – Splat.

White on Cedar Red – Splat.