kenfrederick: scrabble t-shirts

scrabble t-shirts

starting in may 2008 to kick-off the scrabble tournament at work, andy and i crafted a t-shirt project around all of the two letter words in scrabble.

the goal was to randomly spell every legal two letter word in scrabble (101 for those curious). we screenprinted 24 shirts, each with it's own letter. there are no possible two letter combinations with C and V. the shirts were designed to reflect the point values and frequency of the letter.

for example, size of letter is determined by point value, Q and Z are the highest value letters. therefore those letters are the largest in the system. frequency was shown by shirt color, for example the letter E is the most common letter (in the english version of scrabble) and appears at the beginning of the color spectrum, it's shirt is red. whilst X is one of the least common letters and appears at the end of the spectrum so the shirt is purple. all the shirts came from american apparel, as they have the largest selection of colors.

we wore the shirts every weekday without coordinating, except for a system we devised to alternate vowels. i would wear a random vowel on monday and wedensday, andy would wear a random vowel on tuesday and thursday. we considered friday to be "casual friday" which would allow words with the same letter to be worn (i.e. AA).

we kept track of our progress online, everyday (for the most part) here.

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