Creativity – Gecko Gear
For the Creativity section of my CAS project I am effectuating it through designing. The Gecko Gear service is my way of overcoming the Creativity obstacle of CAS as the service group designs and develops multiple creative designs that contribute towards our OSC community. So far our service group has been creative in ways of designing new OSC Hoodies, Shirts, Wristbands, Tote Bags, SAISA Tournament Merch and we are working towards creating a brand new Gecko logo for OSC. All of our Season 1 designs can be found in this google drive folder. My largest contribution towards the service group and for the OSC community was the designing of the SAISA Volleyball Tournament Shirt and Logo. If you have not read my other posts and are unfamiliar with SAISA. SAISA stands for the South Asian Inter-Scholastic Association. And they organize sporting events between 10 international schools all over Asia. Including schools from Jordan, Oman, Bangladesh, Nepal, India and of course, Sri Lanka. This year for Boy’s Volleyball in November, and Girls Football in February all 9 other schools will be coming to Sri Lanka to compete. Due to OSC hosting SAISA Boys Volleyball, our service group would have a lot of work to do to prepare for the tournament. Our first project was to get merchandise ready for the upcoming tournament. For this, My other leader and I worked together to design the logo that encompass this years tournament. It is used in all sorts of branding for the tournament. With the main display being on the livestream and on the GeckoNet Website.
My main contribution towards the tournament, and towards being creative is the design of the tournament shirt. The tournament shirt is the participation shirt given by the host school to all of the student-athletes from the visiting schools competing in the tournament. When creating this design I gained knowledge of the challenges that are created when making a T-shirt economically and also the problems that arise in designing the shirt due to the restrictions in SAISA’s policy. Some of these restrictions I faced were that; the design must have the tournament logo as the main frontal design, the back of the shirt should represent all the SAISA Schools, the shirt must include the SAISA logo, if the school logos are incorporated then they all need to be in the same format, etc. These policies were an awakening for me to the restrictions and how professional design for sports companies and companies in general are. After a while of submitting drafts and getting feedback from the school and my service supervisor, I designed the final design for the tournament.
(Boy’s Volleyball Tournament Logo)
(Back of Tournament Shirt, Designed by Darius Conconi)
(SAISA Tournament Shirt: Front, Designed by Darius Conconi)