Make Lemonade

A couple months ago, another designer and I collaborated on a tee sale that would mash-up pop culture rivalries with sports rivalries.  We each created a design, I merged Star Wars with Liverpool Football, and in contrast he merged Star Trek with Manchester United.  The whole event was a bomb, by my standards.  Both the facebook and forum caught fire with negative feedback.  It quickly became a classic case of “it seemed like a good idea at the time”.  About a week after the “sale of doom”, a merchandiser for Liverpool contacted me about designing some apparel them.  I fell on their radar for the simple reason my previous design was forwarded around between LFC fans.

Every negative situation has a hidden opportunity to make it better, but you’ll only find it if you don’t let the weight of all the lemons crush you.