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Michaël | HouseStationLive.com Oct 13, 2024

Between design refreshes, I came up with 'Covered in Eggs,' which plays with www.housestationlive.com's colors and logo. I also came up with a brand new merch type: a pendant necklace. The boat is where the 3D Electro festival is organized, and the product is called 'Destination Music' because the podcast is called 'Address Unknown.' So it's a clue about the course set.

Since I lost my original logo, I reverted the colors using Paint and changed the pink line to any desired color by using onelinetools.com. This solution has the advantage of being completely free and requiring no software installation.

We're trying to resurrect these old tees as best as we can, so you can still purchase them. It's a very tricky task. The logo's text is upscaled, and upscaling tools are never brilliant when it comes to text. The 'v7.4' mention indicates the most recent update.

I finally decided to recreate the version 4 logo to work with HD pictures. The logo is an important part of our merch, so it cannot be neglected by being improperly upscaled or restored from a non-HD version. This is also an opportunity to improve the designs. The main idea remains the same, but working on physical objects requires owning the process. When I receive the tees, I always have ideas for improvements, but I can't spend all my time making design updates for them. So being forced to redo everything is a great opportunity to improve old designs.

This one in particular, with hindsight, was especially unappealing because I compacted the text too much and used fonts that were too small in order to emphasize the picture. That was a mistake, and we only noticed the inability to properly read the text afterward. These things make our products look unprofessional, and despite designing merch not being our main activity, it's important to provide premium rewards to supporters and care about the quality of our merch when we can.

Michaël | HouseStationLive.com

On the top is the newly made logo. You can see the improvement in clarity, especially on the contours. Since it's our brand, we care about our reputation. We can't accept compressed pictures being used as logos on our official merch. Customers won't care if we have to remake old designs from scratch, especially if these tees are priced the same as the latest collection, while the cheaper/older ones won't be available for sale again.

Thanks to WhatFontIs, I managed to find a similar font used in the original design. The particularity of WhatFontIs, in comparison to MyFonts, is its ability to search exclusively for free fonts. At the end of the day, this online service saved me both valuable time and money!

For the first time since 2018, and thanks to our new partner VistaPrint, we can include some dress shirts in our collection. These shirts feature an embroidered logo in relief, and the visual aspect of the logo exceeds all expectations! We can confidently ask our employees to wear them for any special occasion, and they will all look simply gorgeous! The grey version is designed for males, and the burgundy one for females.