I follow a very talented designer on Twitter named Ian Leino. A few weeks ago he tweeted about a contest he was putting on to win one of his latest t-shirt designs called “Choose Your Weapon”.
As with so many people, video games have been a major contributing medium of my cultural education since as far back as I can recall. One of my earliest memories is actually being four years old and pushing a stepstool up to a video game cabinet so I could play Q-Bert (for about 12 seconds). For this design, I wanted to highlight some of the most awesome ‘weapons’ from the history of video games including some of my personal favorites (but less obvious ones) like the Arkanoid paddle, the line piece from Tetris and the Katamari. (from ianleino.com)
Well I actually won a t-shirt and he kindly sent me it for free, it’s a nice American Apparel t-shirt. – very comfy! With the “Choose Your Weapon” design screen printed on the shirt. Here are a couple photos of me wearing the shirt.
By the way, this is the second Twitter contest I’ve won. So, if you’re not on Twitter, you should be :). You can follow my tweets at http://twitter.com/lewayotte.