Travelling
The iSocialize Movement
Text: Demjan Vester, LC Ljubljana
Drawings: Demjan Vester, LC Ljubljana
What now seems like a long long time ago, in
a galaxy far far away, but was actually 2010,
two naive teenagers joined EESTEC LC Ljubljana.Their names were Matic and Demjan,
and very shortly after they joined EESTEC,
LC Ljubljana organized one of it’s well known
workshops, where, out of nowhere, they
needed to stay with 20 foreigners for 8 days
and nights, sleeping about 2 hours a day and
be responsible for the incredibly complicated
academic part of the workshop.
During the event and its very intense social
part, a silly little quote seemed to become
quite popular. Every time a group of people
would cheer with their drinks, they would invite their friends to join by saying “Come Socialize with us!”. They had no idea what they
had invented.
For some reason, Matic and Demjan thought
a t-shirt would be the perfect thing to make.
They were just missing the design. So one
day, they got together, and said they weren’t
leaving until they had an idea for a t-shirt design on paper.
Several hours later, the lightbulb clicked …
“SOCIALIZE! It HAS to be something with SOCIALIZE! We could sell it to EESTECers, and
we would wear it to parties!” they shouted.
The rest of the process is largely a blur, but
at the end of the evening, a design had taken
shape in Adobe Illustrator. The design would
represent what EESTEC represented, and
what they thought was important. This was,
iParty, iSleep, iTravel. While the design remains the same to this day, the two of them
never imagined that more than 150 shirts
would roam the planet on 4 continents a few
years later.
Later that year, an interesting professor started his graphical design class with a simple
piece of instruction: “At the end of the semester, bring me something! I don’t care what it
is, but I want you to design something, make
it, and bring it to me. That will be your entire
grade.”
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