Today I awoke to a text message from my good friend Eli asking, “Is that your coexist that George Takei used to celebrate 2,000,000 fans?” Now, to be fair, the text was sent at 10:00 AM, and my phone’s persistent notifications didn’t actually wake me up until 11:00 (what, I was up late last night reading the Walking Dead comic graphic novels – and it’s Sunday. I’m allowed to sleep in.), but a quick Facebook check insured me that, yes indeed, Mr. “Oh my…” himself had used my graphic:
Now, the overall concept of a sci-fi “coexist” parody is not original to me, just this execution, so I’m not going to take credit for the idea. I’d designed this in February, and had posted it on Takei’s facebook page (it seemed the sort of thing he might re-share), but hadn’t really thought about it for a while. My sister-in-law had bought the bumper sticker, and a handful of other people here and there had picked one up as well, and I thought that was probably as far as it would go.
As soon as Takei shared the image, people immediately started requesting a bumper sticker. Since I didn’t design this to make money, I decided to donate all proceeds to ICAF – the International Child Art Foundation. Here’s where you can find it:
Buy the Sci-Fi Coexist bumper sticker
Buy the Sci-Fi Coexist t-shirt
Update 06/05/2012:
The response to this design since George Takei shared it has been overwhelming! At this point sales raised nearly $1000 for ICAF!
6 Comments
I’ve figured out most of the sci-fi references, but what is the x?
Jessica-
Here’s a complete run-down of the ships/symbols in Sci-Fi Coexist bumper sticker/shirt:
C: Death Star (Star Wars)
O: The Stargate (Stargate)
E: Klingon Bird of Prey (Star Trek)
X: Starfury (Babylon 5)
I: 10th Doctor’s Sonic Screwdriver (Dr. Who) & the Colonial Fleet insignia (Battlestar Galactica)
S: Opening Title Sequence (Farscape)
T: Serenity (Firefly)
All I can say is AWESOME!!!! I have watched all of those shows and to put them all together is a wonderful idea!
Thank ou so much, Stacey! Glad you like it!
Micheal,
Any way I could get this as a poster, this is fantastic!
Hey, sorry for the delay on my response here, just got done combing through 400+ spam posts to find the 3 real ones!
No plans to print posters in the immediate future, but here’s the high-res version if you want to print one for your own personal use!
http://michaelmcfarlandmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/coexist-hi-res.jpg