Profile for bengineer - Star Wars Design (SUBBED)

bengineer aka Benjamin Schmitt is a 20.4 year old boy, has been a member since August 24, 2009, has scored 12,829 submissions, giving an average score of 2.58, helping 236 designs get printed.

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AIM: bensch91

Jun 30 '11 by bengineer
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Star Wars Design (SUBBED)

My latest design is finally up for scoring! Thanks so much to all of you who helped me finish this :)

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Resistance on Jun 30 '11 at 11:40am

Probably more obvious with the red text. This is pretty good. Not sure how well it will do with the threadless crowd... but TeeFury would eat this up.

Dexter Spandex on Jun 30 '11 at 11:48am

I think you could find a better title.

Grunge is great, not too much. really like it with the red.

What if you lost the white so it blended better?

Dexter Spandex on Jun 30 '11 at 11:49am

maybe there's a tiny bit too much grunge

deep space monkey on Jun 30 '11 at 11:54am

maybe make the death star blue to stay true to the chucks?

bengineer on Jun 30 '11 at 11:55am

Thanks, Lucas :) You're probably right about it being more of a teefury design, but Threadless is always my first address :P

@Dexter: Thanks a lot!
But if I lost the white it would be less recognizable as a converse parody and i'd have to make the grey parts of the death star a darker color...

bengineer on Jun 30 '11 at 12:22pm

@thomas: already tried it and i prefer black...thanks, though!

sausage_moe on Jun 30 '11 at 12:53pm

red signature for sure. test it with the threadcrowd first. you can always go to another place afterwards.

bengineer on Jun 30 '11 at 1:02pm

danke, moritz, seh ich genau so ;)

bengineer on Jun 30 '11 at 3:02pm

bump :)

Outlaw01 on Jun 30 '11 at 3:05pm

omg awesome

bengineer on Jun 30 '11 at 4:32pm

thanks, dude! glad to see you're still around, too :)

bengineer on Jun 30 '11 at 6:00pm

Update1: reduced overall grunge, added grunge on gray areas

bengineer on Jul 01 '11 at 12:50am

you likey?

nathanwpyle at gmail.com on Jul 01 '11 at 12:51am

I do!

Stile on Jul 01 '11 at 12:57am

Agreed!

badbasilisk on Jul 01 '11 at 12:58am

is doch hübsch ;-)

bengineer on Jul 01 '11 at 1:02am

Thanks guys! Danke, Peter ;)

bengineer on Jul 01 '11 at 5:08am

title suggestions would be really awesome!

jaypaulo on Jul 01 '11 at 6:04am

Really really cool!
I'll drop by if I come up with a title.

bengineer on Jul 01 '11 at 6:40am

thanks, joao, really glad you like it!

bengineer on Jul 01 '11 at 8:55am

bump

bengineer on Jul 01 '11 at 11:09am

Ready to sub? I just need a better title :P

Rachel Ray Gun on Jul 01 '11 at 11:10am

We can't accept it with Mark Hamil's face.

Resistance on Jul 01 '11 at 11:16am

hahah, aww... that's too bad!

bengineer on Jul 01 '11 at 11:18am

haha, ok, will change that, thanks rachel!

bengineer on Jul 01 '11 at 11:52am

i really need your help with the title...

bengineer on Jul 01 '11 at 2:37pm

sorry i'm bumping so much, but i'm going on vacation tomorrow and wanna sub this tonight...

quick-brown-fox on Jul 01 '11 at 2:43pm

I like it man. I'm a little fried right now, but what about:
use the force chuck

rodrigobhz on Jul 01 '11 at 2:50pm

hahaha this is AWESOME!

Where's soloyo when we need him! :)

bengineer on Jul 01 '11 at 3:40pm

thanks guys!
"Use the Force, Chuck!" sounds nice, it's on my list ;)

what about

"The Dark Side of the Wardrobe"?

bengineer on Jul 01 '11 at 3:43pm

"I sense great style in you, young shirt-wearer"

bengineer on Jul 01 '11 at 4:48pm

bump

bengineer on Jul 02 '11 at 4:37am

subbed!

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bengineer on Jul 07 '11 at 3:38pm

WHYYYYYY? :)

Rachel Ray Gun on Jul 07 '11 at 3:45pm

using the storm trooper face is also off limits! plus it says "lord vader".

bengineer on Jul 07 '11 at 3:50pm

thanks rachel! would it be ok if i changed "vader" into "vador"?

Bio-bot 9000 on Jul 07 '11 at 4:15pm

why would you change Vader to Vador? I think it would detract from our design, so it'd be foolish to misspell the name purely to get a design accepted.

quick-brown-fox on Jul 07 '11 at 4:19pm

I'd change it to a more generic pseudonym like dark lord

bengineer on Jul 07 '11 at 4:52pm

@sam: thanks! i don't like the idea of misspelling it, either. but what's your alternative, not subbing it at all?

@john: thanks for the input! but i need something that sounds at least a little bit like "chuck taylor"...

pyr4lis on Jul 07 '11 at 4:58pm

can you do "Sky" and then "Walker" separately? its not copyright if it's broken into two words right?

quick-brown-fox on Jul 07 '11 at 5:09pm

Good point. ^ that's a good suggestion. Or maybe "Moff tarkin" or "chuck vader/saber"?

bengineer on Jul 07 '11 at 5:18pm

Thanks, Lori, that's a pretty good idea!

And I like "Chuck Vader" even a little better since it's shorter and more symmetrical ("Walker" is twice as twice as long as "Sky" and would make it quite hard to keep things balanced...).
Thanks, John!

I'd really like to hear Rachel's opinion on these suggestions...

bengineer on Jul 07 '11 at 11:51pm

bump

ivejustquitsmoking on Jul 08 '11 at 12:54am

Maybe email Rachel directly? rachelg@Threadless com

Maybe it has something to do with parody definition (I don't really know)

bengineer on Jul 08 '11 at 1:17am

Thanks, marco, that's a good idea ;)
And yes, I got the generic "parody rules" email...

bottleHeD on Jul 08 '11 at 3:43am

@pyr4lis: Actually I believe copyright is seen in context. While "Sky" and "Walker" are common words, used together and in context of Star Wars mean you're walking a fine line.

quick-brown-fox on Jul 08 '11 at 3:58am

You could even get around it by writing Vader as Vaydor, just a few letters off Taylor

ivejustquitsmoking on Jul 08 '11 at 7:30am

ohwait I wasn't reading :) rachel was here

deep space monkey on Jul 08 '11 at 9:07am

What about if you made it "Anakin Vader" or even "Chuck Vader"

charity.ryan on Jul 08 '11 at 9:18am

Chuck Vader is a $5

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