I first off have to say that I appreciate the spirit of this shirt greatly. As my own father used to be a trim runner, his aging and growth of girth have provided a glaring contrast. Back when my father used to chide me for my long hair, I used to accuse him of having Shakespeare hair!

But, on to the design…

The sans serif font and the centered message on the front is quite playful and simplistic; a serifed font would seem a bit too formal, and the thin line of the shirt makes it easier and clearer to read. The dropped g in rockin’ additionally adds a playful tone to it.

The back of the shirt is quite an effective punch line. The large Buddha image, with “almost there!” displayed below is effective. Perhaps the “almost there” should be above the image to facilitate reading? If you use a smooth design application, I would suggest playing around with the placement of the text and see which way suits you better.

I’ve not been much of a proponent of prints on the side of sleeves of shirts, but this one makes sense; the Yin-Yang. To make it smoother, I would ask the shirt designing company if only one Yin-Yang could be printed on the sleeve, instead of two on each face… that just seems like what the designer wanted to do, yet in this 2-D manner of representation and design, it might be difficult to achieve.

Regarding economy, this is a great shirt! Recently I’ve been factoring in the number of colors on shirts I find, and this shirt would work wonderfully as a double-sided screen print! (Screen printing is explained well in this article on ooShirts, a custom t-shirt printing website.) However, I don’t think that this shirt would be warranted in high quantities, unless you were a reseller. I would say the best use of this shirt would be giving it to a father or older male with whom you have good enough rapport to make fun, and not expecting him to wear it, like the Scharffen-Berger “Semi-Sweet” shirt I gave my girlfriend back in the day. It has never been worn… oh well.