T-Shirt of the Week: Compact Tour 2000

Here we have another design available at shows during Front's "Compact Tour 2000". These shows continued to showcase the "Re:Boot Tour" material, adding a few more rebooted versions of 242 classics, such as "Funkadafi" and "No Shuffle". The tour hit most of the major North American cities, e.g. New York, Chicago, and L.A. as well as brief stops into Mexico.

The front of the shirt shows the "Rotor" artwork, with the reworked 242 logo. The back makes clever use of the 242 logo to include the year 2000, with all the relevant tour stops.

Compact Tour 2000 front

Compact Tour 2000 front detail

Compact Tour 2000 back

Compact Tour 2000 back detail

T-Shirt of the Week: Sputnet 2000

Here we have a shirt that can still be seen on the Transmission 242 shop at front242.com
( http://www.front242.com/site/content/merchandise.asp?type=1&id=5 ) known as the "Sputnet" shirt. This particular shirt was obtained on the "Compact Tour" in 2000. It has the same design as the one sold on the site, but I think the shop shirt lacks the tour dates on the reverse.
I also have a long-sleeved version which is identical in all regards.

The "Compact Tour" was a short series of shows that followed on the heels of the "Re:Boot Tour", virtually identical as far as the material presented.

Does anyone understand what the characters on the shirt exactly are? I have tried looking at the negative space, etc. and am unable to make them out, if they are letters at all! Comments welcomed and appreciated!

Sputnet T-Shirt Front

Sputnet Front Detail

Sputnet T-Shirt Back

Sputnet Back Detail