{"id":32415,"date":"2015-03-06T10:05:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T20:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=32415"},"modified":"2021-09-29T09:45:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T19:45:26","slug":"student-designed-t-shirt-debuts-at-uh-west-oahu-bookstore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/03\/06\/student-designed-t-shirt-debuts-at-uh-west-oahu-bookstore\/","title":{"rendered":"Student-designed T-shirt debuts at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West O\u02bbahu Bookstore"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_32419\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32419\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tom-k-west-is-best.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"451\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tom-k-west-is-best.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tom-k-west-is-best-173x260.jpg 173w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Tom wearing his winning West is Best T-shirt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookstore.hawaii.edu\/westoahu\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>&#8211;West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> Bookstore<\/a> unveiled a new West is Best T-shirt designed by <strong>Ken Tom<\/strong>, a humanities student at the university. Tom&#8217;s design won an online poll in November 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Following in the tradition of <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Bookstores&#8217; annual <abbr>HI<\/abbr> Pride T-shirt contest, the West is Best contest was open to <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> student designers only. Tom first heard about the contest from his creative media instructor <strong>Sharla Hanaoka<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/08\/19\/student-designed-uh-t-shirt-celebrates-hi-pride\/\">Student-designed <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> T-shirt celebrates HI Pride<\/a>, August 19, 2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;Because of our campus&#8217; creative media program, I thought it would be wonderful to have a contest that could give students design experience and also create buzz,&rdquo; said <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> Bookstore Manager <strong>Kory Uramoto-Wong<\/strong>, who worked with Hanaoka to get student entries.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;<abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> students are vibrant, prideful and are meeting their academic goals,&rdquo; said Uramoto-Wong. &ldquo;That is why we chose the theme &lsquo;West is Best&rsquo;!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Tom, a Leilehua High School graduate from Wahiaw&#257;, researched typography and recruited feedback from family and friends before submitting his design to the bookstore&#8217;s contest. In addition to seeing his design worn by fellow students on-campus, he received the first West is Best T-shirt printed and a $100 <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Bookstore gift card as a grand prize.<\/p>\n<p>The West is Best T-shirts are available exclusively at the West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> Bookstore, located on the second floor of <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> Campus Center, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookstore.hawaii.edu\/westoahu\/MerchDetail.aspx?MerchID=1005069&#038;num=0&#038;start=1&#038;end=4&#038;type=1&#038;CategoryName=TEES\/TOPS&#038;CatID=18364&#038;Name=TEES\/TOPS\">online on the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> Bookstore website<\/a>. <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> students receive a discount on their first West is Best shirt purchased with valid student <abbr>ID<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> Bookstore unveils new student-designed T-shirt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[660,460,59],"class_list":["post-32415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-bookstore","tag-uh-west-oahu","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32415"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148889,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32415\/revisions\/148889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}