<p>I spend some of my free time designing t-shirts and team apparel for the various clubs and sports in my school.
I’m not planning on being a designer of any kind, it’s really just something I do for enjoyment.</p>
<p>It depends on how much you do, and if you get paid for it. I guess you could always count it, but whether colleges are interested is a different thing.</p>
<p>I do it as volunteer work, sort of. I don’t get paid. Sometimes I get a free shirt.</p>
<p>Am I wasting my time? :S</p>
<p>You aren’t wasting your time if you enjoy it. That being said unless you are spending tons of hours designing I would not list it. Remember not everything you do needs to go on your resume.</p>
<p>If sitting in a one-hour club meeting once a week doing nothing is a valid extracurricular, then so is this. If it’s significant to you, you could either write it on your resume or mention it in your essays. You could probably make it into something bigger if you wanted…start a business or something.
(Your extracurriculars don’t have to pertain to your future career…I don’t know why anyone should be expected to know their career in high school anyway.)</p>
<p>It depends on how you frame it. I freelance as a designer for international charities + volunteer as a creative director for a local NGO so I’d put that on my resume. If you’re really interested in design I suggest taking it up a step from just designing for your friends. :)</p>