Bagman – Make It Work

Bagman Make it Work

In an effort to help turn our country around and celebrate the awesomeness of the Bagman. I submit for you Bagman – Make It Work. Thanks to Annie Belle’s poster for the inspiration on Brian Short’s assignment and his poster as well.

Bagman is in good company with this one. I have this FDR t-shirt which is actually a quote from one of his fireside chats, not a campaign slogan. It’s what I’d like to repeat to most politicians if I were to meet them. Actually I’d probably out of frustration, change it to, “make it work, dammit!”

This was made using a favorite technique of mine which involves using Illustrator’s LiveTrace tool to vectorize bitmapped images. I made a tutorial last summer on how to do this using Dr. Oblivion as the example.

For resources, I used one of Brian’s Bagmen, and a T-shirt image which I lightened to match the FDR t-shirt’s gray, as well as a little rubber stamping to remove the original logo.


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10 responses to “Bagman – Make It Work”

  1. Brian Short Avatar

    What awesome, sophisticated work. You’re always an inspiration, MBS (also, the Romney hair looks superrad in that effect)

    1. mbransons Avatar

      Thanks Brian, I really love the Bagman videos especially. I’m excited to see the TDC’s turn to video again to see you at it!

      1. Brian Short Avatar

        VIDEOS!!!!! I miss them.

  2. Paul Avatar

    Nice image!

    I like the FDR quote. If Mitt Romney told me to “Make it work” though, I might not react so well :p

    1. mbransons Avatar

      Romney would never “reach” that far doesn’t have the stomach for it.

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  5. Terri Avatar
    Terri

    I saw the Make It Work Roosevelt T=Shirt on Rick Bayless his cooking show. Can I purchase somewhere?

    1. mbransons Avatar

      I had that shirt some time ago, and it didn’t survive my love of it. Should have re-purchased when I found the online while writing this post. It is based on a public domain image so anyone could remake it if ambitious enough. 🙂

    2. mbransons Avatar

      Ok. Rebuilt the logo for you. Feel free to use a on-demand printing service to see how it looks! PDF and JPG versions. Pantone color 654 C looks like a good match, or CMYK:C100_M73_Y10_K48