The Orange Fist Campaign

Armed with the overinflated impression of their own importance typical to the breed, officious bureaucrats are choking the life out of MIT. At the head of this infestation of policy-shuffling vermin is President Charles M. Vest. ILTFP and the Orange Ribbon Campaign have done a great job of helping students and faculty demonstrate their dissatisfaction for his policies of micromanagement and in loco parentis in a nonconfrontational fashion, but their intelligent and peaceful dissent has been summarily dismissed and ignored by the administration like so many other student concerns. In an ultimate act of disrespect, Vest insulted the recent ILTFP Tool-In by wearing and "redefining" the orange ribbon himself, thus attempting in word and deed to treacherously manipulate others' symbol away from being an indictment of the direction in which people like him are attempting to point this great institution and into something mundane and soulless like his administration. Enough is enough! Let's see him wear this.

We are therefore proud to present the Orange Fist Campaign T-shirt. ILTFP have lost patience with their reason and dialogue falling on deaf ears and are coming out with their own shirt as well; it is a good design and a good statement and a good symbol of solidarity and will inject much-needed funds into their organisation and everyone who truly cares should buy them. But for those of us that like something a little more blunt for when the occasion demands it, there is this as well. This carefully designed item of clothing has a number of advanced features:

• 5 separate print items offering 360-degree disrespect coverage
• Eye-catching colours and typography
• Choice of text no doubt illegal to display in public in Massachusetts
• Innovative groin-level print allowing you to make Chuck suffocate in your crotch all day long

The main front and back logos are as follows:

FRONT		BACK

In the MIT spirit of open source and doing things yourself, these shirts are not for sale. Anyone may download the graphics and make as many of them as they wish, with the materials of their choice. To make your own one of these shirts, you will need:

• Access to a colour inkjet printer. Common manufacturers are Epson, Canon and Hewlett-Packard.
• Iron-on inkjet T-shirt transfers. These can be purchased from most computer stores that sell printer consumables. The best results seem to be achieved with Hammermill "Invent It!" brand transfers with Cool-Peel process. Full instructions for use are included in the package.
• A blank T-shirt. Good quality Beefy-T shirts can be ordered online from Hanes; they will give you a free shirt on your first order and will replace free of charge any you screw up printing. Fucking A. White, natural or ash grey T-shirts will look best with the transfers.
• The graphics from this webpage: fist_shirt_front.tiff and fist_shirt_back_etc.tiff. The files are in LZW compressed TIFF format for quality and reduced file size; most graphics viewers and editors should be able to display and print them even if your browser can't.
• An iron. Probably at least one person you know will own one and let you use it.

Note that the additional sleeve and groin prints are included in the graphic file for the back; they may be cut out and applied to the shirt separately after printing. The suggested layout is shown here.

The Orange Fist Campaign is not officially associated with or endorsed by ILTFP or the Orange Ribbon Campaign. The acronym ILTFP is used without permission of any sort.

Don't delay. Grab the graphics and get ready to wear the anti-Vest statement you've been waiting for!

Download fist_shirt_front.tiff (240K)
Download fist_shirt_back_etc.tiff (445K)