MIT x Pokémon Design
Below is customized art produced for MITPL along with explanations.
Design (updated December 2016)
Old Design:
T-shirt Proofs
Charcoal:
Light Blue:
Description
Each tile represents a course number at MIT (MIT refers to majors/departments as "courses".) Pokémon that well represent the course number were selected.
|
# |
Course |
Pokemon |
Reason |
|
2 |
Mechanical Engineering |
Bibarel |
MIT’s mascot is the beaver, nature’s hard worker. Bibarel is The Beaver Pokemon and is also known for being an industrious worker, like MIT students. |
|
6 |
Electrical Engineering & |
Rotom & Porygon-Z |
Rotom represents the EE and Porygon-Z the CS part. The green binary code is inspired by The Matrix and also has a message (read line-by-line.) |
|
7 |
Biology |
Eevee |
Eevee is the Evolution Pokemon and can evolve into 8 different species. Fitting for biology whose principles revolve around natural selection. |
|
8 |
Physics |
Dialga & Palkia |
A fight between the Temporal and Spatial Pokemon will create weird physical phenomena. Their rule over space and time creates the laws of physics. |
|
10 |
Chemical Engineering |
Alolan Muk |
The vivid coloration of the Sludge Pokemon is caused by chemical reactions to the garbage it eats. Sounds like A. Muk is a ChemE factory! |
|
15 |
Management |
Persian |
Team Rocket’s Boss, Giovanni, kept a Persian by his side while leading the criminal organization. He definitely had some good management skills. |
|
16 |
Aerospace Engineering |
Mega Rayquaza |
In the Delta Episode of ΩRαS, the player rides a Mega Rayquaza into space to destroy an incoming meteor that contains Deoxys. |
|
20 |
Biological Engineering |
Sivally & Mewtwo |
Several creatures in the Pokemon universe were modified by humans, but Sivally and Mewtwo were created by the Aether Foundation and Team Rocket, respectively. |
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