For the SAISA volleyball tournament in Kathmandu I designed the team’s logo and, together with Joshua Wright, then made the shirt design for the team. Having designed shirts for scholar exchanges and an orchestra event in my previous school, designing logos was not new to me, but as this is for a sports event I was challenged to get a good design, but since we worked together I feel that we ended up with very good designs. This was a fun process, since we had a variety of ideas and we combined these to get the optimal outcome. In the end we had two shirt designs and had the team collaboratively vote for one.

Sketches and planning for the designs

I started by making a logo that will be on the SAISA athletics shirt. I had a spiking volleyball player in mind, so I made several initial sketches, of which I chose one and developed it. I decided to make the silhouette of a player and then add the school’s colors in one side, and I was quite pleased with the final design I made using markers and colored pencils.

The logo I designed for the shirts

Joshua and I then worked on the playing shirts, exchanging ideas via email and Whatsapp and trying out different designs. We agreed that the shirts should be sleeveless and white for home and blue for the away shirts, as well as that they should be fairly simple without too many colors and icons. The two designs differed by the lines running down the sides under the arms. The Gecko Athletics shirt will have the logo above and then the text “SAISA boys volleyball – Kathmandu 2018” below it on the back of the shirt, with the school logo and Sri Lankan flag at the front.

The home shirt design

Away shirt design, the difference of the two designs is the lines on the side of the shirt.

The two designs for Gecko Athletics shirt. The lower one was chosen in the end

This whole project took up quite some time since we wanted to end up with some great designs, but it was fun and taught me how to be determined and how to collaboratively come up with designs by interweaving ideas from others with my own. It is also satisfying to see one’s logo on the shirts in the end.