The 1995 FF@ t-shirt   

On January 1, 1995 Luis Nasim wrote to the list ...

A couple of months ago I was thinking that it would be nice to have a t-shirt with some kind of FLYFISH@ design or logo on it. And then, it struck me!

I have a friend who's a graphic artist and another acquaintance of mine whose family is into the silk screen printing business.

Sooooo, I approached my artistically talented friend Wilfred and persuaded him to take a shot at creating a nifty little design. He agreed, and so I conveyed to him what FLYFISH@ is all about and asked him to conjure up some design ideas.

He came back to me with all sortof different sketches. One of them clearly stood out and I picked it as "the" one.

On the foreground there's a fish (some kind of trout) leapingout of the water chasing after an artificial fly. On the background there is a fly fisherman with rod in hand. The whole thing is surrounded by an omega shaped frame (sort of like a flattened out key hole). Within that frame and toward the bottom of the drawing FLYFISH@ is written in bold letters, and below the frame in smaller letters it reads: .edu.mil.com.gov.net.org.ca.uk.de.nz etc

After I got this drawing made I contacted the silk screening fellow. He quickly discouraged me from pursueing my idea of doing a "multiple colors" job. A different plate is needed for each color used and at $100 a plate it quickly became evident that my scheme was out of the question.

Other things I had to consider were: the T-shirts themselves (I needed decent quality cotton t-shirts which are affordable); printing cost per shirt; the price of packaging for sending the t-shirts out; and the shipping costs.

By now I was seriously doubting this enterprise (I mean, do I need this?) I could perhaps try to recoup the fixed cost by selling lots of shirts to friends locally, but... instead, I think it is better to offer this to you all and if there's enough interest I'll do it.

Great job Luis!