Monster-T
Published February 26, 2010 | 
Monster-T
Here you go. A T-shirt design for the rolling Threadless.com T-Shirt competition. Sadly no one wanted it so it didn’t get printed. That would have been cool though the real point was to stimulate some self generated work which it did. It was great fun to work with a limited palette and I’ll try to do some more when I get a chance. In the mean time I posted this as a postcard on my e-card site.
You should’ve won, Dave! Great design!
Thanks Zeb. I agree, well I would. The way that Threadless works is that the shirt buying audience votes and they said no. I’m not really the Ideal person to design T-shirts as I only wear plain ones.
It is a great thing to do to stimulate personal work and also get a bit of unbiased feed back. I will be doing it again at some point.
The folks over on Threadless just don’t have any taste, pure and simple. The administrators have a great deal of say whether or not a design passes as well. They had a pretty draconian “we own this design forever” if it’s picked terms of service agreement if I recall.
So on the brighter side.. you still own this design. ( not sure their copyright / TOS would cover a Brit anyhoo )
Interesting about your e-card site! I have worked for a large e-card company for many years, and thought to do this myself. Is this a money making venture? I’m curious…
Cheers,
C
Hey Chad.
Threadless is a world of it’s own taste wise. The TOS isn’t that bad (I have had Much worse) They only own copyright for apparel and wall stickers everything else remains with the creator I think. Actually I was kind of using it to stimulate some creative work and to be less precious about it. Just to get stuff out there.
E-cards. In my ideal dream world I’d be sitting here churning out e-cards for an adoring public and living off the profits. The grim reality is that to even think of going there I’d need a large enough catalog of cards that people could have enough choice that they would pay. (Everyone sending and receiving the same card is a bit of a barrier there)
Maybe one day. Until then its a pretty good marketing device. I am much happier sending people emails with cool free stuff rather than pestering them for work
Dave