Also, I will search high and low for canned pumpkin just to make a pumpkin pie the first day of October, it’s a must. I enjoy cold or hot drinks including pumpkin spice, ginger beer, pumpkin, or apple cider. My favorite thing about Halloween… oh wow I have a few things but I always look forward to fall food. What is your favorite thing about Halloween/ best Halloween memory? It is very satisfying when I can successfully create that mental picture to a digital image. I am a visual person, when someone tells me a story I immediately play the story in my head with pictures.

As a designer I really enjoy getting the chance to show my thoughts as an image. I just completed my first year this past September as a Creative Designer at OneBlood. How long have you been a designer with OneBlood & what do you like the most about designing? My other idea was to have someone covered in hand sanitizer like a giant goo monster. Then I thought of characters with fun masks, like Freddy Krueger standing next to someone with an average medical mask. My first idea was to involve the design of bats, but I quickly passed on that. What were some other ideas you had that didn’t make the cut? I imagined what someone would do with all the toilet paper they purchased and that’s when I came up with the idea of a little kid wrapped in toilet paper saying to “save lives… not toilet paper.” I thought of items that were becoming difficult to buy, such as toilet paper and hand sanitizer. When my manager asked if the team had any ideas for this year’s Halloween design contest we thought of ideas relating to the topic of 2020, COVID-19.

How did you come up with the idea for the “Save lives, Not Toilet Paper” T-shirt? We asked Jessica (aka JellyBean!) what was the inspiration behind the winning design and how she celebrates Halloween. The Save Lives Not Toilet Paper T-shirt is available now through October 31at all donor centers and Big Red Bus locations for all blood, platelet, and convalescent plasma donors. This year the winning design came from Jessica!

The winning design is chosen by donors through a poll run on our social media channels. Each year the OneBlood design team submits ideas for our annual Halloween T-shirt contest.

Halloween bus shirts