In July this year, Gerard had an accident that changed his life. After diving into a shallow lake in Sweden and hitting his head, he fractured his spine. Following emergency surgery, Gerard was flown back to the UK and is currently undergoing rehabilitation for his C5 tetraplegia.
So on December 17th Matthew (Gerard’s Brother), Giedrė and Hollie decided to raise money by doing a Coastal Half Marathon in Portsmouth. Matt asked for a few T-shirts with the hashtag #WhyWeLoveGerard so I gave him a few options:
Matt didn’t really have a brief apart from the green, so he let me have free reign. I thought giving him a few simple options would be easier for him, so the 1st design is based on the cover photo that appears on his just giving page, albeit jazzed up. The second is a (probably over designed) stylised font and the third is a simple bold text with quotes taken from the #WhyWeLoveGerard video. If I had more time I would have got them to hand write their quotes and vector them individually but we had a tight deadline due to the marathon. The third design was chose and they were printed in time:
If you want to know why they’d happily run 13 miles in the middle of winter by the sea, and/or want to donate here’s the link: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/we-love-gerard-murphy
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