![]() ![]() When those shirts proved to be popular, too, we started thinking about other “All my friends are _” ideas that would lend themselves to T-shirts. Based on the response, we figured we were on to something so we created new dino-designs with the same phrase. Later that summer, though, we remembered the idea and created a small print run of 50 white T-shirts with a dinosaur saying, “All my friends are dead,” which sold out almost immediately. ![]() Also: always start with a button.) We traded the button away for some sort of camp good or service, perhaps a massage, or some snacks, and went on with our lives. (Note to creative types: fellow counselors are always a great focus-group. At one point, we wrote the phrase “All my friends are dead” on an image of a dinosaur and our fellow counselors seemed to like it. We were working as counselors at a performing arts camp back in 2002 and - in between doing our actual jobs, which included “keeping children unhurt and alive” - we bought a button-maker and starting creating phrases and images that we thought were funny for buttons. J+A: All of this started with a button-maker, actually. ![]()
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