In my last post I mentioned that we are meeting a lot of interesting people here at HOPE X. One of those interesting people is [Miriam] who is performing Logo Removal in the vendor area. If you don’t know what that is, you are not alone, neither did we. She doesn’t much like the idea of being a walking bill board for any ole company and has been removing logos from cloths for a while now.
[Miriam] did us a solid and removed a logo from one of the shirts we are giving away. The process starts by flipping the shirt inside out. A piece of scrap fabric larger than the logo is pinned in place in the logo area. The shirt is then flipped right side out and a shape is sewn around the logo, joining the shirt with the scrap fabric. Scissors are then used to cut the logo out of the shirt being careful to only cut the shirt and not the fabric underneath. The shirt is then flipped back inside out and the excess scrap fabric is trimmed away. That’s it.
What about the shape? [Miriam] likes to make them up as she goes along and admits that they aren’t anything specific. She likes the design to be whatever the viewer feels it is. It’s a fun project that invites conversation.
Leave us a comment below telling us what you ‘see’ in the now non-HaD shirt shape.
Surely it’s easier to just buy clothes that don’t have logos you don’t like on?
Yes probs os
but that’s not sustainable. We’re talking reduce-recycle-reuse here man.
This is hack-a-day, not hug-a-day, hippie.
Then simply wear the damn tshirt inside out to hide the logo. Simples.
What about the deodorant stains…for those who actually use it?
Flip them inside out the first time you wear it, dummy.
What the f*ck do you use as a deodorant? I have never gotten stains from any I’ve used…
I see a ghost emerging from a grave. The toombstone stands on the lower left side.
I also don’t like logos, if I buy a new piece of clothing.
I see either a rabbit sniffing a foot or pacman/a large goldfish about to eat a foot.
Yes, yes it is
I defeat advertising shirts by wearing bibs!
To me it looks like a police rabbit holding out its paw to halt the traffic coming from the left. (well, from the right if you’re wearing the shirt.)
I see Unpopular Opinion Puffin.
It’s… it’s … a conversation starter I guess.
I’m seeing a kangaroo issuing an, er… Angry hand signal…
+1
“cloths”->”clothes”
She’s doing it the hard way. Not an expert but I believe there has to be some kind of chemical solution for removing a logo from a shirt.
If it is a cotton shirt then acetone works. It may also take out some color, but no logo. IU don’t expect you would get good results with a shirt that contains poly, but I have never tried it.
Acetone is wonderful if it is used carefully.
It also gives you a nice high when inhaled.
Not in my experience :( Have to be careful with solvents like acetone and booze…
Heck, just stick your hand in it. The stuff goes straight through you skin into your bloodstream. I can’t even imagine how much fun a heavy duty solvent running through your body would be. My cell membranes are popping as I think about it.
I gotta party with you and your friends. Should be fun until people drop dead or start drooling.
Vampire butterfly feeding on a sleeper’s knee.
Na, it’s Tinkerbell giving Old’un the finger.
I certainly appreciate the sentiment, but I hope this doesn’t catch on too much. I like my freebie shirts, but the companies do it to get their brand out into the world. If they think everyone is just going to cut the logo off they will stop doing free t-shirts.
I realize that one person doing this won’t affect much, but if it becomes a thing then I won’t be able to find as many freebie shirts. It is just a trade-off, being a walking billboard for free clothes.
Doubt it. Too much work for most people. Anyway, it seems like bigger stuff like t-shirts are far less plentiful than, say, 1999-2000. It’s sick, but the homeless in San Jose were like Cisco ads all over the place.
Not terribly sure that homeless people wearing Cisco shirts was the message that the marketing department was trying to communicate, but I never did care for Cisco anyhow. Thanks for the comment. That is funny in a kind of horrible way.
To be honest this is going to slowly become more common with our culture. Read the book “Branded” for some context. There are a lot of people out there, freebie shirts or not, that don’t like being walking billboards apparently. I’m kind of indifferent, but there are some shirts and items that I don’t really care for the logo (e.g., The bag of Holding)
Strangely enough plain white tees are often more expensive than tees with some butt ugly prints on them.
What’s next ? Try to remove the commercials from sites like Hackaday ?
Advertising is what’s keeps the modern world running.
So many people thinks they should have everything absolutely free.
Oh. Do you use acetone to remove ads from hackaday?
AdBlock Acetone, maybe…
Try not doing that.
Blasphemy. That was a beautiful shirt before…
Amen. “Did us a solid”… pffft! She should be drawn and quartered! :P
fat hunchback doing stretches
Someone has waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much free time on their hands.
Just where the damn shirt the way it was given to you, or don’t take a free shirt.
Ah the joy’s of autocorrect :: where=>wear
Laudable idea but too much work needed. I would patch something like “Justin Bieber’s dog recommends…” above the brand name or a “brings cancer / kills your kitten / etc.” below:)
Best. Idea. EVER.
This is good for those shirts that you get as gag gifts that you wouldn’t normally wear, or perhaps the shirts that are date apropriate like “Lordy, Lordy look who turned forty!” or some such thing. Perhaps even taking the logo off of an old shirt that you love (ie. old concert T-shirt) but has other damage like pit stains, and puting it on a newer shirt…. I like it.
A franken-shirt consisting of cut out logos anyone?
If all the logo Tshirts are gone, what shirts will the hipsters of 2025 be able to buy at thrift stores?!? Please, people. Think of the hipsters.
[Miriam] is a total cutie with a dirty mind. My kinda girl. Not tellin’ what those shapes are.
[Miriam] is a total cutie. Not tellin’ what the shapes look like cuz it would give away what she’s thinking about.
Kangaroo flexing bicep, lol
Reminds me on the book “Pattern Recognition” by William Gibson where the main character has a psycholocial fear of logos so shes removes them from all her clothes :-)
Isn’t it more fun to deface the logo, rather than just remove it. For example, Aeropostale becomes Aeropustule quite easily.
Feet on the left side, groin on the right, its a man lying down whose testicles and penis are inflated with helium and are trying to fly away.
Yeah, I saw the same sort of testicular edema. Need more candy in my diet, I think.
This is not a hack. I see no one hacking any technology. This is just creativity, not a hack. I wish people would stop being stupid.