FERG

A few months ago I came up with a crazy idea. This idea was to take a picture of my face put the words “FERG” (my nickname) on the bottom and have this logo printed out on stickers. Then to put these stickers everywhere and create an almost cult following. At first this was a ridiculous idea which was as much of a fantasy as it was a true idea. At first I only shared this idea with a few people, because honestly how self-obsessed could I have become to actually consider putting my face on a sticker and spreading that sticker everywhere. Well turns out I must be pretty self-obsessed, because when the chance to use an alternative process and sell that piece arose, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

The first step in creating the shirt was too figure out what I was going to put on the shirt. After many suggestions from friends (some of which were pretty ridiculous). I decided on a picture that I had taken the year earlier in grade 10 photo. This was a picture that I didn't really have any need for at the time so I just hung it up in an English classroom, only to find it still there a year later. I used Photoshop to add some lettering and add a sepia tone to it. I printed the picture out on to the special iron off paper, followed the ironing directions, and then, boom the first shirt was done. I made 3 more shirts (4 in total) and have already sold 2 and others have placed orders just for different sizes.