Jerseys – what’re you looking at ya hockey puck?
(That’s a quote from Toy Story, sorry if that spooked you if you didn’t get the reference haha)
The ask – to design a hockey jersey, like the ones we saw from the Kraken designers.
I did this one rather quickly but I did have fun playing around with tools in Photoshop (us Visual Media students haven’t been taught Illustrator before so I had to flee to the comfort of the old PS haha).\
Technical difficulties aside, I choose Indigenous People’s Day to create a jersey for. I was rather hesitant to design for this day as I feel I’m probably not the most qualified person to be designing for this day being a white person with not a drop of Indigenous heritage.
That said, I had the idea for the turtle because I remembered hearing the true name for the USA that First People call it – Turtle Island. How disrespectful is that to not only take someone’s land (not to mention cultures, and lives, and a very very long list of colonizer’s wrongdoings) but also take it’s name and give it something as boring and bland as the United States of America?
I heard this term used first from the people I did my first documentary on many months ago in Fall and it’s stuck with me since.
I will be fully transparent – this isn’t my art! It was from a YouTube tutorial with a coloring page to celebrate Indigenous People’s day by Izabella Orzelski. Just wanted to give credit where it’s due, I wish I could’ve picked something by someone who I knew for sure was an Indigenous artist but I had to move quick to finish for the deadline.
