Sometimes it’s not all about T-Shirts. When you see some truly awesome work you just have to tell people about it.
Simon Sherry produces fantastic vector art – mostly seen on T-Shirts. His work-in-progress collection of stylised playing cards entitled ‘full deck’ is just amazing.
This particular piece of art is a stand out for me, because it looks stunning even at a distance. As you get closer you realise this is vector art, and you start to think – wow.
You get even closer and then see the real detail of the piece and you realise how truly good this is.
The energy saving lighthouse. Powered by its own wind turbine, it silently does the job of saving lost eco warrior vessels.
This is a vector revamp of an originally hand drawn design, and the halftone pattern used for the ‘light’ is enough to enter it into a challenge on Redbubble.
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was a revolution for a lot of 80’s kids, and this shirt harks back to those days when programs were something you copied out of a magazine or loaded from a cassette tape.
Not wanting to keep all my eggs in one basket (Redbubble), I’ve been looking at a few other places to get my stuff out there and bet seen by more people.
Mysoti is another Print on demand site that I’m trying out at the moment. I’ve popped a few of my designs there to see how they go. The product view’s a little different there as there’s more variations (including kids sizes), but on the face of it they operate the printing in a similar way to Redbubble using Direct to Garment printing.
Rumplo seems to be gaining in popularity as an aggregator of other people’s designs, and I’ve popped ‘Off Track’ up there for people to have a look at.
I also had a first shot at submission to Threadless (avg score of 1.72 out of 5 – with over 700 scores). I wasn’t quite prepared for the ruthless voting system! I’ve since learned this is notorious at Threadless. It seems the most prolific scorers are also designers who quite readily give out zero <cynic>for sometimes dubious reasons?</cynic>. Now my submission may not have been good enough – (that’s fine), but scoring zero out of 5?
I think to get something through on Threadless you need to
First go through the Critique section and really get to know what does well.
Produce something truly original (although I’m not so convinced about that)
Fit the style and really study what gets in.
I chose not to do the critique thing, and didn’t study too much on what gets printed – I just took a punt. Might give it another go sometime.
At least I can use the design again after 90 days (after re-reading the submission t&c) 🙂
After coming in 3rd in a Redbubble challenge my little Fiat 500 T shirt has been featured today on the Redbubble home page. This is my first feature and I’m way pleased!!
I like to do technical designs and this design classic is a worthy subject. The little 1957 Fiat 500 certainly has personality, and if it could – would be winking at you and saying .. Ciao!
I just can’t stop writing Greasemonkey scripts for redbubble. This one allows you to actually perform more targeted searches from anywhere within the site.
I’m a creative geek living in Melbourne, Australia who writes software by day, and creates T-shirts and other designs by night. This is all of course when time and motivation allows.
It’s probably accurate to say I dabble in things other than software to keep my creative side happy. I was always a keen musician (guitar, drums and keyboards) but am now happy to dream of the ‘greatness’ I never achieved. I may surprise myself yet… I might also get round to finishing my list of gig attendances one day.
I like to take pictures of things that interest me, and am becoming and increasingly keen photographer.
I occasionally write technical articles, produce the odd bit of freeware, and record technical thoughts on my Codebureau blog. Anything left may end up on this blog – but that’s rapidly turning into my world of T-Shirts!
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