Epicurus' Garden — Est. 306 BCE

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Epicurus' Garden — Est. 306 BCE

I made myself a t-shirt and the above is the design I came up with.

Comments 8

May 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM

That makes a nice symbol! :thumbup:
May 25, 2025 at 5:57 AM

Thank you for sharing this design with us! :)

I would like to see the piglet's tail be more in the shape of a string, less the shape of a knob of sorts. If you look up pictures of specifically organic free range / wild pigs, you'll see what I mean. Happy pigs have happy tails :)
May 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM

I picked the gold-colored shirt, thanks again!
May 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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You've got it! ;)
May 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM

Nice!

REALLY like the pig and moon arrangement, the kylix with the name.

The olive branches (?) fill the negative space nicely

Do the Φ's represent pleasure and pain? Or choice and rejection? Or... It may have been nice to have a little breathing room there.

The Athens kind of gets in the road. I had to do a double take to not read "The Garden Athens of Epicurus" or something like that

Could you put the Athens directly under Est. 306 BCE? and leave a little negative space beside Of Epicurus? Or put Athens in the key pattern ring at the bottom?

Great design! Like the fonts!l, too!
May 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Author

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll definitely play around with it.
May 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM

Eikadistes Can you confirm the fruit/plants are olive branches, as Don has guessed? :)
May 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Author

They are, indeed, olive branches. ;)

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