TSA T-shirt (graphic design help)

[terryg]

I have been looking for a T-shirt to wear during my upcoming flight to express my extreme displeasure. I haven't found exactly what I am looking for, so I am thinking about having one printed up.

I don't want the metal ink t-shirts because although I think they are cool, I don't plan to go through the scanners.

I found a really cool spoof TSA/DHS logo:


Created and copyrighted by Rhys Gibson

I have sent him a message asking for permission to use it for this purpose.

My graphic design skills are very week, but I was hoping for something like this on the front, only replacing the official seal with a spoofed one:


The back would have only the text of the 4th amendment in simple text like this:


Anyway, I would appreciate any feedback and would REALLY appreciate any help redesigning the front from any of you with real talent.

[tallmike]

Not terribly helpful but I would change the "trampling the 4th" date to 2002 instead of 2010. Thats when the federalized their first airport.

[Rex B]

Go with what you have.
And have someone take video

[sjfcontrol]

Itching for a TSA-based proctology exam, are you?

[jimlongley]

I did one, while I worked there, that said, in Latin so I knew management would be unable to read it: "The floggings will continue until morale improves." It hung proudly in our break room and on various pieces of equipment for a couple of years.

"Moralum emendum flagosi", or something like that.

[karl]

The simpler the better. Maybe keep the spoof logo on the front and the "Trampled since..." on the back.

[Dave2]

I was thinking about all those police cars you see driving around with the department's logo and "To protect and serve" written underneath or over or around it... How about their logo with "Ut et movere fidelius effluxus" underneath? It means "To faithfully molest and irradiate* ". I figure that a lot of people know what "fidelius" means (or at least see it as a "positive" word) because of its use with the US Marine Corp, so they'll probably assume that whatever the whole phrase means, it must be something good.

*technically, "give radiation", since there doesn't seem to be a latin word for "irradiate".

[USA1]

[Pawpaw]

[The Mad Moderate]

They have been trampling the fourth amendment among others well before 2010. As to you're question I would make a shirt with the text "don't grope me bro"

[Dave2]

They have been trampling the fourth amendment among others well before 2010. As to you're question I would make a shirt with the text "don't grope me bro"

I like it.

[terryg]

Thank you to all the replies. As far as putting something in latin; my purpose is to peacefully protest, so I don't want the meaning to be hidden.

Of course, I don't want to be arrested/detained either like this kid. But I think they got him more on being semi-decent than on the words printed on his skin - or at least that's what they were able to use. But kudos to him!!!

[jimlongley]

By jimlongley at 2010-02-02

Don't know what happened there, it should be larger.

[Jasonw560]

How about the TSA logo with a red "No" symbol through it and then "Not without dinner and a movie first" or somethng to that effect? Then the 4th amendment on the back. Good learning tool, because not many people would know whatnthe 4th amendment says verbatim.

[terryg]

Good learning tool, because not many people would know whatnthe 4th amendment says verbatim.

Thanks. That's why I wanted the text of the 4th on the back and not the front - so that people standing in line behind me might just thoughtfully consider what they are reading.