Put it on a t-shirt

There’s a funny design I once saw that I now spent 15 minutes searching for. Here it is:

It makes me think about how I approach designing for t-shirts.

Some of the designs I made are just funny things people said that I simply wrote down or happened to remember. And then I put them on t-shirts.

A few years back I was renting an apartment with my brother. I ordered pizza at noon and knocked on his door to tell him. He woke up and said “wake me when it arrives” and went back to sleep.

A while later when I was designing t-shirts I vaguely remembered that. I drew a sleeping dog and experimented with different texts and finally shortened it to this:

Now I write down everything that catches my attention or is even remotely funny – you never know what might come in useful.