{"id":2965,"date":"2014-06-04T16:05:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T20:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2014-06-04T16:09:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T20:09:36","slug":"red-sweater-t-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/2965\/red-sweater-t-shirt","title":{"rendered":"Red Sweater T-Shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m incredibly excited to announce that Red Sweater now has an official shirt<\/a>, designed and illustrated by the brilliant Susie Ghahremani<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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As I write this, Apple is putting on WWDC, their developer’s conference<\/a> in San Francisco. This has become a huge, annual tradition that attracts many thousands of brilliant people to a city that is already teeming with many brilliant natives. I try to make the journey every year, in part because it’s a fun time to socialize with old friends, but also because it’s an unparalleled opportunity to meet new people who inevitably change the course of Red Sweater’s progress for the better.<\/p>\n

I can recall the occasion many years ago when I met the guys from Buy Olympia<\/a>, Pat and Aaron, who impressed me with their story of running a full-fledged online store dedicated to highlighting artists’ work, while also developing an impressive array of Mac software for mailing and shipping<\/a>. It must have been five or more years ago that I met them and they graciously offered to sell a shirt for Red Sweater if I ever wanted to do so.<\/p>\n

I can also recall<\/em> the first occasion I had to appreciate Susie Ghahremani’s art, which was unrelated to WWDC but also took place in San Francisco. It must have been around 2002 when I came across a delightful shirt in a shop called Otsu<\/a>. I wore that shirt proudly and only realized years later that I could track down the designer and buy many of her other shirts<\/em> as well. If you’ve ever met me in person, or seen a photograph of me, there’s a good chance I was wearing one of Susie’s shirts.<\/p>\n

As luck would have it, I got to know Susie over the years through Twitter and because of a number of mutual friends. And as it turns out, Susie was also friends with the guys from Buy Olympia! We’re all friends! Isn’t that friendly?<\/p>\n

So that catches us up to two years ago or so when Susie and I agreed we should collaborate on a Red Sweater t-shirt. I immediately told my wife something along the lines of “SUSIE GHAHREMANI IS MAKING A RED SWEATER SHIRT!” and then, as I do more often than I’d wish, I dropped the ball repeatedly on doing my part to make the dream come true. I chatted with Susie occasionally about how we should<\/em> finally be making the shirt, but neglected to go the extra mile of talking to her about what the shirt should be and how she could proceed.<\/p>\n

A couple months ago, Susie nudged me again about the project and I finally made the case for what I was looking for: a shirt that people would love and want to wear even if they didn’t know what “Red Sweater Software” was. I am so excited by the result: that cute bear with it’s cozy red sweater is exactly<\/em> the kind of shirt I would have bought and wore proudly had I come across it in 2002. Now it’s exactly the kind of shirt I can wear proudly with the knowledge that, for those in the know, it’s also subtle branding for my Mac (and iOS!) software company. I hope that many of you who are fans of my work or Susie’s will also enjoy wearing the shirt!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m incredibly excited to announce that Red Sweater now has an official shirt, designed and illustrated by the brilliant Susie Ghahremani: As I write this, Apple is putting on WWDC, their developer’s conference in San Francisco. This has become a huge, annual tradition that attracts many thousands of brilliant people to a city that is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2969,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions\/2969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}