Design for the souvenir t-shirts that are to be given to all participants of the Danish MCR Mahjong Championship 2015.
About this project
Mahjong Denmark expects to have 80 participants for its big tournament in May 2015. The event is also in commemoration of the European Mahjong Association’s (EMA’s) 10th year of existence. Cocomedia was therefore approached to design a t-shirt for the event.
The overall design is a clean and stylish one. The biggest element of the t-shirt is the map of Denmark to show that it is a Danish tournament. Since it is also a mahjong tournament, the element of a 5 circle/dot mahjong tile was used as the “5” in the year “2015”. The 1 circle/dot tile was also used, but as the dot of the “i” in “Danish”, as well as a location marker on the map to indicate the tournament venue.
If you’re a Bornholmer, you might ask, “Why is Bornholm not on the map?” It’s not because we don’t like Bornholm, but the reason was that the island was just too far away from the main map of Denmark, so having an outline of Bornholm on the t-shirt made it look disconnected from the overall design. In situations like this, we prefer good design over political/geographical correctness as we believe that art is an expression that does not necessarily need to be accurate.
Software used
- Adobe Illustrator CS6
- Adobe Photoshop CS6