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- February 7, 2012
Now that everyone’s had a little time to cool down from this year’s Super Bowl… let’s talk about it some more!
This edition of Threadspotting is dedicated to our own little slice of Super Bowl stardom, as one of our tees appeared during the most important part of the game – the commercials! Danny Pudi, who plays Abed on NBC’s “Community,” was spotted wearing “Winter is Coming” by Rachel Gottesman during the “Brotherhood of Man” commercial.
It should also be noted that Danny successfully wore “Winter is Coming” without any wardrobe malfunctions despite all the sick dance moves he busts out in the commercial.
If you want to look as fly as Danny while you’re working on your choreographed dances, make sure you request a REPRINT!
Thanks Melissa for this epic sighting, and remember, as always, if you see Threadless tees in the wild, send us a note at sightings@threadless.com and we'll talk about them here... AND we'll give you some Street Team Points to boot! Enjoy!
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- February 6, 2012
Hey Pinpals!
Valentine’s Day is coming up! How are you gonna spread the love? We want to help! Create a Pinterest board for the person you want to shower with love, affection, and presents. One lucky pinner will get $100 in Threadless cash and a $100 Amazon gift card so they can get their special someone somethin’ special.
Here’s how to enter:
- Make a board titled "Threadless Vday challenge" specifically for the person you have in mind. Let us know why that person is so great in the board’s description.
- Add 10 pins to the board that would make great gifts for your special person. At least 5 must be Threadless products.
- Email jessh@threadless.com with the subject “Threadless VDay challenge” and a link to your board.
- Finish your board and email us by February 12 to be considered.
The chosen board will be announced on Valentine’s Day!
Happy pinning!
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- February 1, 2012
You guys really showed up for the 24 hour voting challenge. Within one day, two million scores came in! Nice work.
We put all the names of people who scored 240 designs or more within the 24 hour period into our randomizing randomization machine and pulled out one lucky design-scorer who scored the loot. The $240 in Threadless cash went to Daniel Newman!
We asked Daniel, a long time Threadless member, what his favorite Threadless design ever is:
Three Cat Moon is epic, but I would have to go Red by Kneil Melicano.
Congrats Daniel! And thanks to everyone who scores designs! You help make Threadless what it is!
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- January 31, 2012
Your challenge is to create a pin-up inspired design.
Whether she's tacked on a wall, tattooed on an arm, or taped in a locker, those cute and curvy pin-ups have been winkin' at us for ages.
Submit your tribute to the lovely ladies so we can proudly pin her to a tee!
Get sketchin' right now, and remember to look cute while you're doing it!
Check out the prizing and submit your design!
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- January 30, 2012
This past fall, we received a whopping 1,040 submissions to Threadless Loves Your Favorite Tee for the chance at $10,000. Today the chosen design has been released!
Impasse was created by a group of designers who go by the name Verso. We asked them a few questions about their design, what’s up next for them, and what advice they have for other designers.
What inspired this design?
We like movies a lot and we use these references every time in our illustrations. In this scene, we wanted to do the most tense scene ever, a mighty duel where "none shall pass"!
What advice would you give to new designers to Threadless?
Be original, try hard, practice hard, embrace failure and learn fearless from your mistakes!
What are you guys doing with your cash?
We didn't put much thought yet, but we intend to invest it in our studio and future projects. And buy a spacecraft.
What's next in your design future?
Our goal is to create badass designs and amaze people!
Get your Impasse tee here! And check out the amazing process video. Congrats to Verso!
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- January 30, 2012
Here’s the back story for the next comics-on tees series, which we just released today. Comics-On Tees Vol. 4 Monkey Around was written by Chris Roberson with artwork by Mike Allred, Colleen Coover, Chris Samnee, and Francesco Francavilla. And you can always check out Vol. 1, 2, and 3 here! Buy your favorite for $24, or better yet, buy the whole series for $79.
Monkey Around Issue 1, Vol. 4 by Mike Allred
Front: We see a "mad scientist" type (lab coat, goggles) standing in front of a chalkboard on which three empty squares are drawn in a row, surrounded by formulae and notes. The scientist is facing the board and shouting with triumph that he has finally found the
secret of the universe, and created a device capable of travelling to other layers of reality — comic books! In another balloon, he says something about the need to be careful, as any disruption or interference could lead to disaster! Behind him is a lab bench where a metal belt-like device is draped, and there is a lab monkey reaching up Curious-George-style to touch the belt.
Back: Same shot and point of view as the front, only here the scientist has turned around and is saying "Did you hear something?" and the monkey is now wearing the belt and has a crazy assortment of stuff on him: lipstick marks of a kiss on his cheek, some parts of a superhero costume (mask slung down around his neck, or a cape, or something like that), and in one hand maybe what looks like a toy train. The monkey is trying very hard not to look suspicious.
Monkey Around, Issue 2, Vol. 4 by Colleen Coover
Front: A scene that resembles the covers to old romance comics or an issue of Archie, with a guy in the foreground looking forlorn with his hand on his chin, a thought balloon over his head saying "She only had eyes for me, until HE came to town." In the background, we see a girl skipping along holding hands with the monkey, who is wearing a sweater vest or something equally twee (and, of course, wearing the belt).
Back: On the back, we see the monkey and the girl sitting at a malt shop table, drinking from the same glass with two straws, and outside the window behind them we see the guy looking anguished.
Monkey Around, Issue 3, Vol. 4 by Chris Samnee
Front: We see a superhero and his sidekick swinging over a cityscape on ropes, a caped crusader and his laughing daredevil of a sidekick. But instead of his costume being based on, let's say a "bat" for example, this superhero is *monkey*-themed. Like Adam West if he'd started in "Monkey-Man", instead. And his sidekick, dressed in coloful tights, cape, mask, and little pixie shoes, is the monkey from shirt 1.
Back: We see a millionaire playboy in ascot and smoking jacket, sitting in a chair in his sumptuous study. He's just looking up and reacting to the monkey that has come crashing through the window, and saying something like "That's it! I shall become... a MONKEY."
Monkey Around, Issue 4, Vol. 4 by Francesco Francavilla
Front: A scene that could be from a 50s monster comic or a Japanese kaiju flick, with a guy in the foreground shouting for people to run for their lives. In the middle ground we see people running in terror, and towering over it all is the monkey, here standing at least fifty feet tall.
Back: We see a guy with a pipe clutched between his teeth with his arms around a girl with a big bouffant hairdo, and an army general standing nearby, and the body of the monkey lying on the ground in the near distance, one hand hand over his stomach, the other on the ground holding a train, and piles of banana peels all around. There's a word balloon about how the monster seemed to calm down when he found that trainload of bananas, and seems to have eaten himself into a nap. But who is the REAL monster here, anyway, or something like that.
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- January 24, 2012
Greetings, Threadudes and Threadettes!
We just can’t contain our excitement for our fourth volume of Comics-On Tees launching next week, so the theme of this week’s Threadspotting is... you guessed it... COMICS! This week’s sighting comes from the 2D world created by John Layman and Rob Guillory, the two brilliant men behind the infectiously graphic CHEW comic series.
Here's the character Olive Chu wearing The Madness of Mission 6 by Travis Pitts. Olive is the daughter of main character Tony Chu, an FDA agent with the psychic ability to pull information from the things (and people) he eats in order to solve crime. Believe it or not, Olive’s wardrobe is actually provided by Threadless! Flip open any issue of CHEW and you’ll find Olive wearing her favorite Threadless tees.
Also, your Xbox avatar can rock the same tee as Olive. Pick it up right here in the new Threadless section of the Avatar Marketplace!
Thanks Lisa for this unique and awesome sighting, and remember, if you spot a Threadless tee in the wild, send a note to sightings@threadless.com, and we’ll talk about them here... and we’ll give you some Street Team Points to boot!
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- January 24, 2012
You’ve worked tirelessly to accurately represent yourself in avatar form on your XBOX. But up until now, something just hasn’t been right.
Today, that changes. We’re proud to announce that Threadless tees are now available for XBOX avatars!
You can now don your very favorite Threadless tee both on couch and screen, finally making the line between reality and fiction obsolete.
Check out all the tees in the XBOX marketplace and suit up!
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- January 23, 2012
Your challenge is to submit a design based on YOU!
Threadless loves a lot of things but most of all, we love you!
We’re gonna get to know you guys little better. Tell us more about the person behind the username. What do you love? What do you hate? What’s your shoe size? Submit a design based on what drives and inspires you... or what you like to eat for lunch.
When all the designs are submitted, we’ll have a little scrapbook of our Threadless BFFs!
Click to see the prizing and submit your design!
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- January 19, 2012
Do you ever feel like the day's already over and you got nothing accomplished? Well we're not going to let that happen today! This voting challenge is all about making your day productive.
Today, score 240 designs and you'll go to bed knowing you've made an impact on the designs Threadless prints! AND you might even score $240 in Threadless cash.
Score 240 designs between Thursday at 12:01 am and 11:59 pm CST for your chance at $240 in Threadless cash!
By scoring at least 240 designs, you'll be automatically entered in a drawing to snag $240 in Threadless cash. We'll announce the lucky design scorer next week!
What are you waiting for? You're wasting daylight!
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- January 18, 2012
Over the new year, Threadless Alumni Richard Fulop from Hungary took it upon himself to make Threadless life just a little more sweet. On his own time, he created Threadbox, a photo-hosting site for images you want to embed in the Threadless Forum.
Threadbox works exclusively for posts on Threadless and eliminates the need to post your photos to other photo sharing sites before embedding them in your blogs and comments.
We asked Richard how he became such an active Threadless blogger:
I have to admit that I started blogging at Threadless only because I wanted to get more votes, and some 'followers', but as soon as I tasted how it really feels like to be the part of the community I just got addicted, and since then I check the blogs almost everyday. I'm part of a few more communities around the internets, but this one is far the best. As an artist I don't get much appreciation from my friends and family, of course they say, "Oh that’s nice" and other meaningless stuff like that, but here in the community the guys don't just appreciate my work, they even tell their honest opinions, help make me and my designs become better. And don't forget about those meaningless blogs which have those funny comments. I love them the most.
Thanks Richard for being an example of why the Threadless community rocks!
If you haven’t participated in our blogs yet, join the party!
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- January 16, 2012
What’s gonna be the best looking can on the shelf, is made by Threadless designer che-se aka Sergiy Chebotaryov, and contains a delicious beverage that goes by the name of Threadless IPA? The soon-to-be released Finch’s beer cans! Sergiy’s Thread submission was chosen from 171 designs in our Threadless IPA Beer Can Design Challenge.
He said: "Bird, shrub and thread — what else do you need on the beer can?"
Chicagoans will soon be able to head to Whole Foods and grab our favorite beer! Threadless IPA will be canned and sold in Chicagoland stores this April.
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- January 16, 2012
Durable, spacious, and best of all, hands-free! Backpacks are truly the zenith of analog carrying technology.
Submit a design for the supreme stuff-transportation device that is the backpack so we can add “fashionable” to its already long list of impressive traits.
Your design will go on the front panel of the backpack. Design with 4 colors or less and keep in mind that this fabric can’t take too much detail. Most of all, make it awesome.
Check out the prizing and submit your design!
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- January 13, 2012
For all of you pinners out there, Threadless has a Pinterest page now!
Each board is curated by a different member of the Threadstaff on a topic that interests them! For example, Brianne will be sharing cool Tee-DIY projects on Threadless Loves Tee-torials, Craig will be posting fun around-the-office happenings on Threadless Loves Fun & Betsy’s bi-wheel love is showcased in Threadless Loves Bikes.
Come check out all of our boards & pin with us! Also, we’ve added a “Pin It” button here on the site so you can easily add your favorite designs to your boards.
If you’ve got your own Pinterest page, list below, and we’ll follow you!
