T-Shirts & Merchandise
Festival Day & Year-Round

A wide variety of merchandise printed on-demand is offered through our Redbubble online store. Items feature both current and previous designs created on behalf of the BGIF. All items are exclusive to the online store.

Our logo shirts and Restaurant Discount Cards are available year-round at Mellow Matt’s Music & More, 1200 Smallhouse Rd. Bowling Green KY.

You can also find them Festival day at the Merchandise Booth near the Fountain along with this year’s design and some of the previous designs seen below.

Annual T-Shirt Designs

Find this year’s T-Shirt at the Merchandise Booth by the Fountain along with remaining inventory from previous years. Visit our online store for more options year-round.

Enter T-Shirt Design Contest

Janie Hunt is a visual artist from Sweeden, Kentucky located in Edmonson County. She has an Associates of Art from Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College, and soon to have a Visual Arts, Concentration Graphic Design, degree from Western Kentucky University. Currently, she is working at Imagewest on Western’s campus, but hopes to someday design merchandise and album art. Besides her work in class, she enjoys drawing horror illustrations and spending time with her pets. Visit her on Instagram

Christine Gmys earned her BFA at Clarion University of Pennsylvania with a concentration in drawing and printmaking and went on to receive a diploma in Desktop Publishing at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Her professional career began with creating large format visuals for trade show booths and later working for an advertising agency developing logos, ads, product labels, and brochures. She made the move to Kentucky when her husband accepted a job in Bowling Green and became a stay at home mom shortly after. Christine continues to design for clients seeking to customize their special event with invitations and announcements to favors, banners, games, posters and more.

2022
Design by Logan Sanderlin

2023
Design by Janie Hunt

2021
Design by Christine Gmys

Christine Gmys earned her BFA at Clarion University of Pennsylvania with a concentration in drawing and printmaking and went on to receive a diploma in Desktop Publishing at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Her professional career began with creating large format visuals for trade show booths and later working for an advertising agency developing logos, ads, product labels, and brochures. She made the move to Kentucky when her husband accepted a job in Bowling Green and became a stay at home mom shortly after. Christine continues to design for clients seeking to customize their special event with invitations and announcements to favors, banners, games, posters and more.

2020
Design by Madison Whittle

Madison Whittle is a visual arts student based in Bowling Green, KY. She is currently a sophomore at Western Kentucky University, pursuing a BFA in Graphic Design and a certificate in User Experience. In the logo, she wanted to encapsulate the unusual circumstances of holding the International Festival online, while also visualizing the idea that the cultural unity that the festival promotes still surpasses the limits of our screens. To see more of her work, check out her Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/madison_whittle_art/

2019
Design by Ashley Scott

Ashley Scott is a WKU student and freelance graphic designer from Bowling Green, KY. She is studying sociology and graphic design and she graduates in May. She loved creating a t-shirt that celebrates the diversity of our city! See more of her work at www.instagram.com/ashleyscottdesigns and www.ashleyscottdeseigns.com

2019
Art Print by Zach Preston

Zach Preston is a Bowling Green based graphic designer and student at Western Kentucky University. He has been honing his skills in printmaking and graphic design for the past several years with an innovative outlook, and a passion for constructing unique and cutting-edge designs.

Artist Statement
For these poster designs my main intention was to portray a narrative of inclusiveness and diversity through simple and modern design techniques. The use of basic geometric shapes to fill a formal compositional layout, motivated the aesthetic behind these posters with the goal in mind to appeal to any and all audiences. The entirety of the designs were created digitally, however, with the application of minimal textures and natural earth tones, it hopefully suggests a handmade feel. Most importantly I wanted these designs to have a timelessness that allowed it to connect across cultures and accentuate the vitality of the human spirit so that engagement was effortless between the design and the viewer. In the poster using a more colorful palette, each color represents the colors used in every flag around the world, blue, red, green, yellow, black, and white. I wanted combine these colors and similar shapes to show that with diversity comes connection and something beautiful that was there before.

2018
Design by Darius Lightfoot

Darius Lightfoot was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky and graduated from Warren Central High School and Western Kentucky University. He enjoys digital art, drawing, photography, making music and keeping up with social media trends. View his digital art at https://www.instagram.com/thetoongod/ and his photography at https://www.instagram.com/toonagraphy/

2018 Shirt Design by Darius Lightfoot on heather navy

2017

Design by BJ Jordan

BJ Jordan is a lifelong resident of Bowling Green who has enjoyed visiting 13 other countries and meeting people from many more. He is a WKU alumnus and graphic designer. He strongly believes in accepting and respecting other cultures, and incorporated that into this year’s design. For more information visit jordan195.wordpress.com.

2016

Design by Emily Harvey

Emily recently graduated from WKU in the Spring with a BFA in Graphic Design and is actively pursuing the life of a freelance artist; working on illustrative, design, and fine arts projects. Her two greatest passions in life are art and animals. Much of the inspiration behind her art derives from her childhood on a farm and spending her teen years working in an animal shelter. It is her greatest goal to create art that is both beautiful and rich with purpose.

2015

Design by Kaela Ward

Kaela Ward, Bachelors of Fine Arts, WKU, 2015: As Twyla Tharp wrote, “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” This quote really hit home with me since I grew up in a very small country town. I have always dreamed of having my art impact the world. In this current piece, my concept was to include both an international landscape and the state of Kentucky with splashes of color to really capture what the festival is all about.

2014

Design by INI Printwork

25 Years of Celebrating Diversity

Bryan Bostic at INI Printworks has been our preferred source for screenprinting for years so we left our 25th anniversary design in their charge.

2013

Design by Rachel Clark

Theme: Games Around the World

Rachel Clark graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design with a minor in painting. Her specialties regarding art include illustration and cartooning. Many of her influences include animals and children’s stories.