A T-shirt for D-MAVT
Here it is, the brand new D-MAVT T-shirt. Designed by students for students. But who has created the design and what does it stand for? We introduce the design team and tell you where to get the T-shirts.
How to design a T-shirt for students? Well, why not ask the students themselves? Therefore, the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Process Engineering (D-MAVT) contacted the engineering student organisation Akademischer Maschinen- und Elektro-Ingenieur Verein (AMIV) to help them find engineering students that enjoy creating designs. A team of three students - Mohammed Khouni, Philipp Bucholtz and Timothy Zimmermann - was quickly put together. All three are also part of AMIV’s design team. "I like to draw, design and print T-shirts at home and I also like to wear cool shirts," says Philipp Bucholtz. "That's why it was important to me that the MAVT shirt would also look cool."
Finding a motif without clichés
The biggest problem the team had was time. "The most difficult thing was to find enough time to work on it," says Mohammed Khouni, just like Bucholtz a bachelor student in the fourth semester. Only the second biggest challenge was finding the right design idea. "We have tried to come up with a design that both looks good and fits MAVT," explains Philipp Bucholtz. "And without too many mechanical engineering clichés," adds Timothy Zimmermann, bachelor student in the second semester. So from the very first meeting it was clear that neither cars nor engines should be on the shirt. But what should it be instead?
Each of the three was looking for ideas in the coming weeks, developed some designs on paper or on the computer, talked to friends and family. By February, Timothy Zimmermann had created several initial design ideas in Photoshop. The entire team liked one of his ideas, a CAD drawing with the MAVT lettering, - at least in principle. However, the design was not entirely finished yet.
With pen, ruler and paper
In the following weeks Philipp Bucholtz spend his afternoons after school and his weekends with pencil and paper and continued to take the design one step further. "Inspired by Timothy's design I made a few graphical sketches, but with 'MA' on top of 'VT', to make the design more compact," he explains. "Then, I came up with the idea to fill the letters with a complex machine to establish a direct link to mechanical engineering."
Everyone loved his final design. "Philipp and Timothy have already demonstrated with other projects that they can create great designs," praises Mohammed Khouni, his team colleagues. Together, the three transferred the hand-drawn image in the office of the AMIV to Photoshop and added the logos - and then the design was ready for printing.
This year`s Master program graduates were the first to receive the freshly printed T-shirts during the graduation ceremony. If you would like to buy one of the D-MAVT-shirts, you can get it at production cost of seven Swiss Francs at the ETH Store. The T-shirt is available in several colors. The design team's favorite is the version in black and white.