I created the new shirt of my city’s baseball team Caen Phénix Baseball to celebrate their 40th season!
I wanted it to be recognisable as a Caen shirt from a distance, but also add details which one can see close up.
The different patterns are references to the city of Caen, its coat of arms, its Abbey, the famous statue of the phenix, and to the history of the baseball club formed in Hérouville-Saint-Clair in 1985.
I included a portrait of Melvin McNair, a former black panther activist from North Carolina who – after an unbelievable journey – became a figure of my South Caen neighbourhood « Grace de Dieu » and who’s been involved with the baseball club for decades.
Seb Toussaint 