That's Braile for:



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This is my first submission, and I would love some constructive feedback.

If I made it central then I would have to change it to lower, lower lower... that might be a bit boring.



I'll have to think about a pattern or detail ideas.

I love the idea, really smart!

clever

DO IT!

TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE BLIND IS AWESOME!

hah.



http://www.threadless.com/critique/28144/quot_The_Way_The_Sun_Hits_Her_quot

That's a really unique design! I like it!



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Could you critique mine, please?

wat the hell that means?

Tis unique and interesting!

But when you look past the cleverness its just white dots on a blue shirt.



Keep the idea but maybe add another element.

Some feint accenting in light blue maybe?



Crit if youd like: http://www.threadless.com/critique/29876/Homebase

i like it, it's a good idea, try other colors, but i like it!

and made some changes to my design... thanx for those comments!

yeah, very original, try other colors.



haha, loved the ninja turtles.



If you have a moment, critique my designs

http://www.threadless.com/critique/29964/kite_in_the_sky

http://www.threadless.com/critique/29965/bubble_Bottle_Guy

yeah ninja turtles are awesome times ten, but mine isn't the one with the ninja turtles.

thats so cool!

you should used the puffs special printing so that people can actually feel it



critique mine!

http://www.threadless.com/critique/29919/Peace_in_Hand

oh wait you are using puffs printing, sorry didn't read that!



http://www.threadless.com/critique/29919/Peace_in_Hand

That's Braile for:



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Ink: Puff



Changes: I added some definition to the braile.



Any and all constructive feedback will be appreciated.



Or if y0u have a good joke.

A bear went into a pub, asked the bar man for a pint and a ........................................... Double vodka



"Why the big pause asked?" the barman



"Because I'm a bear!"

ha ha, thanks for the drum work.

thats awesome ...!! i wish more people would get it though..... and normally id never suggest this.... but maybe u should have an asterisk on the sleeve saying what it is......



but it really is a brilliant idea! no ones used braille on threadless before... at least not that ive seen



if u have a minute, would love to hear what u think of mine



http://www.threadless.com/critique/30061/Mousing_Around

Really really cool concept.



It would be neat if the braile message was longer and traveled from somewhere near the top of the shirt to the same place at the bottom.

hahahaha this is amazing. i say submit, for sure. thanks for taking a look at my shirt too.

nice work dude

The only problem I can see with this tshirt is that very very few people (no one?) are going to know what it actually says. Therefore, it is essentially a dotted pattern, unless it happens to be one of those instances that you run into a hot blind girl... then you can ask her to feel your tshirt, and it all would have been worth it! ;)

In a way that's a good thing that only the rare person will know what the shirt says. Say your talking to a guy/girl in a bar and she/he asks what your shirt says. Then you get to read the shirt to them and watch a smile creep into their expression.

definite improvement with V2 - they actually look like bumps now. Maybe add a very small text explanation somewhere or very small text under each braile line - but keep the braile as the main part of the design.



comments?

Fist of all, I love the shirt and I think the addition of text will take away from the shirt.



I will not explain, First threadless does not make a lot of shirts that have explanations on them; however some shirts do have difficult and odd meaning. secondly, I think it will take away from the overall design of the shirt.



Oh, I would like to see it in other colors, but that is your choice.



other than that I say submit it!

Nice! But maybe if you'd put the text in the middle of the shirt and changed the "left" into "zip" or "open", it would fill in the shirt more..

That's Braile for:



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Ink: Puff



Playing with colour.



Tell me what you think.

As adornment alone, I like the format. Unfortunately, anyone who buys this shirt and wears it is going to have to explain it to everyone who asks about it, all day. So, maybe a text translation? If there's no room on the front, then the back?

As I said in V2 translating is half the fun.

Have it in puff detail so blind people can walk up to you and feel it and read it for themselves (Might be a bit awkward though).



Anyway. Goodluck! Comment on mine maybe?

http://www.threadless.com/critique/29265/Mr_Sea_Horse_And_His_Bubble_Stealing_Minions#v8

yeah thats getting into some close territory for the blind wandering hand, but maybe it could work out for the better. looks good so far.

good luck!

I liked it better as the one side. without the addition of the large dots.



I think elevator when i see the dots.

The big dot's are just to show more the detail of the circle and accent and not apart of the design.

If you're going to display braille, better to leave out the big dots which aren't actually part of the directions. They are kind of distracting. I like V1 better, perhaps with the text explanation.



Check out my design!

Where you have the placement now is too far to the left i think... when a person is wearing it it will practically be on their side.

Try placing it above the heart and work down.



I think you would benefit from Removing the larger dots.

And i dont think a text explanation if incorporated in the right way would necessarily hurt the design,



The Gentle Giant Lives....critique? :P

I really like this. The placement is obviously at the best place. haha. I don't know why people aren't realizing that the big dots are NOT part of the design.

That's Braile for:



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Ink: Puff



Playing with colour.



Tell me what you think.

Maybe they will understand now. I like it on the bottom row of colors the best.

Ahhh...

The shadow does give it a nice touch.



The Way The Sun Hits Her

ok i understand sorry love it!

no worries.

version 1 was perfect. I like it like that and think it's really cool.

were you going to use raised ink? and what if the braile started higher and to the right and then actually moved lower and to the left as if the person reading/feeling it was interacting more with the shirt. thanks for the feedback by the way!

Version 1 was rejected by threadless.com.



I'm guessing that is was too simple.

I was gonna suggest putting a blind guy on it. But... that might make people grumpy.

I thought of the idea of putting a guy reading the braile but thought it would take away from the design.

Very nice idea, even if I prefere your II version

A glance at mine?

i hate when they reject awesome ideas ..where the whole point is simplicity ..... i sincerely hope they accept it this time.....



i like it best on black and navy...



i made changes to mine



if u have a sec, i'd like to hear what u think:



http://www.threadless.com/critique/30061/Mousing_Around

i don't get it at all, and it doesn't look good.

1MIKO: Version 3 and 4 are just the same design as Version 2 just tried to show different colours.



ginetteginette: Version 2 is a little more clearer to see concept because the magnified detail is out of the way. If you still don't get it, Think Dirty.

oh, then i think it's both awful and doesn't look good.

Is it possible to print multiple colours on puff ink like that? It doesn't really seem necessary because if the ink was 3D it would look 3D naturally and show natural responses to lighting, you don't need to draw one in.

I like it, but the only people who would understand it without the person wearing the tee telling them would be people who can see AND read braille, which isn't a big group.

braille for:



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my hopes are that having the text in the back will make the design "less simple".

Oh and Ink: Puff

Putting the text on the back takes away from the fun, like you said in previous versions.



Since they rejected the first version, why not make it more obvious to those who aren't ocularly challenged and write, "Fun with Braille" on the front, with the subtitle "Read the Braille, Win a Prize"? That may be the only thing you can do to get this thing, at least, up for scoring.



Thanks for commenting on mine!

i see no problem on writing it on the back. i actually like it.

great idea to use the puff ink on it. and it would also look great on a yellow shirt.

Having the regular text on the back makes one think it's directions for back scratching

I like it but although simplicity is good, this is missing something.

Haha!



Can you put the lettering behind the braille? Let the braille be puff, but have the translation directly behind it?



I like the "fun with braille" suggestion above too.

Haha, great idea! I think the braille on both sides of the shirt would work good.

Hmmm braille is an interesting idea, you should have it in puff or flock or some specialised printing tech.



I''m not so sure about the "lower lower and to the left" thing, the text, even if I can read braille, doesn't mean anything for me.



Having the text on the back detracts from it, but without it non-blind people won't understand. How about maybe construct it in braille and faux-braille? Like make up dotted alphebet but in ABC... if u know what i mean

I do think there's soemthing missing in this. It needs another cue to make the reader understand. Maybe you could try stylising the braille just a wee bit to resemble alphabets and you wont need the text then!

i love the idea.. but it would not be understood am afraid.. not sure how to make it clearer though..

but for now.. i think braille should be on both sides..

and maybe change the text.. to make it mean something....

but i still think the braille thing is awesome!

do threadless accept graphics or test in the back?

When you say the braille should be on both sides to you mean on the front and back or the left and the right?



threadless will accept designs with graphics or text on the back.



Like this one.

lol .. like this idea of yours :)

you know what? loose the text on on the back entirly and just have puffy dotts where you placed them and maybe. with and astrix at the end with the translation writtin upsidedown along the bottom in small letters or in a small box on the back saying "*translation of brail from front"

I think the translation text needs to be made smaller/more obscured.



The main problem I see is that there really just isn't a way for somebody to look at the front, not immediately understand it, and then be guided to an answer, you sort of just count on somebody stumbling into the braille translation on the back.



I think an asterix would really help (after the braille and in front of the translation, whether you move it or not)



Reciprocal Critiquing?

I love the idea of the astrix. It's going to take awhile to but that into a 6th version because I lot my hard drive with all my files a few weeks ago.

Using an idea from "biotwist" I added text and astrixes.



Tell me what you think.

For some reason I did it with the text up side down in version 6.



As before: "Using an idea from "biotwist" I added text and astrixes."



Tell be what you think.

ba dum bump tush

the puff paint idea is awesome! i'm trying to think of how they typically use braille in public signage next to text...

It's usually a line under the text or printed directly onto plastic (or other material) that's is formed into braille.

i liked ur design from the start... :)

umm.. maybe if the text was n the corner.. a little to the right??

but... i still dunno why u chose this "lower and lower then to the left"?

am not sure what it means

I say go with it as is!

I'm tempted to.



I think the asterisk is the sliced bread of this design.

I think its a great design and conept!

I just don't want people to dismiss it as dot's on a shirt.



Maybe if I make the title something like "... and then to the left (thing dirty)"

Maybe and a lil to the left, the abbreviation of "lil" should help a bit . Also t show more humor in the text and in keepin the brail serious, you could make it exagerate as it progresses. Something like:



lower, Lower, LOWER, now a lil to the left

you could do the asterisks in another color so it is not seen as a dot.

haha this is funny.. i would just change the font to something sans serif and hand written.. cool!

I like the idea of sans serif and hand written.



I was thinking of moving it to the same place on the back or back to the way it was on version 5.

I like the puff paint idea as well. The font type is a little weak. Just out of curiosity, does that braille actually say something. If so what?



If you have a minute please critique mine. Thanks!

http://www.threadless.com/critique/37212/The_Door_That_Led_to_Nowhere

The text is a translation for the braille.

Only think I could think of would be to put the translation in the same spot it is, but on the back. Other than that, it's gold.

oh duh

braille for:



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The ink will be puffed.



I moved the text to the back of the shirt.

braille for:



lower

lower

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then

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The ink will be puffed.



I moved the text to the back of the shirt.

oops

thats so funny! i love it

Thank you, but is it better then Version 5 or Version 7?



Any ideas for improvement?