Last week my friend Rachel organized one of the most fun and unique “team-building” activities that I’ve ever participated in at work. It started several months ago with this idea and her observation that there were several manholes on-site at the Johnson Space Center featuring the NASA “worm” logo.
(I should note that this effort was ALL Rachel and her team. I was just a happy participant and thought it was so cool that I couldn’t resist sharing a little bit about it!)
One fun catch is that whatever you print will appear in reverse (mirror image) on the shirt — although one guy did use freezer paper to transfer ink from the manhole cover to the shirt and get a correctly oriented image, and that was quite successful too! Another fun catch is that you get messy edges and missed spots depending on how the cover is inked and how flat you manage to lay your shirt down, which ends up giving a fun vintage/grunge vibe to the final result.
Manhole printing is something that I absolutely never would have come up with, and yet I am so happy that there are people in the world who are able to think outside the box and come up with fun things like this.
p.s. I’m doing a 31 day blog writing challenge!
This is so rad. I love seeing the action shot.