Week 1 In-Class: AIGA Philly "Design for Good" Non-Profit Brainstorming

My teammate Kaleigh & I decided for our first project of the semester to do the AIGA Philadelphia "Design for Good" t-shirt contest.  First step was to find a non-profit we were both passionate about & wanted to design a t-shirt for.  A few that caught my eye were Career Wardrobe, TreePhilly, Ready, Willing, & Able, Philabundance, Our Closet, Neighborhood Bike Works, Gearing Up, Earthskeepers, Clothes-Pin, Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, Back on My Feet, ActionAIDS, Achieveability, & Philly AIDS Thrift.

We decided on Our Closet, which operates a weekly pop-up store in West Philadelphia, providing free, high quality clothing with a personalized & dignified touch.  I work part-time at a local Goodwill & also have volunteered during my winter breaks at the Bowery Mission (which operates it's own clothing closet cheekily dubbed 'Blessingdales'), so this non-profit very much interested me.