New trend idea... it was created using an old physics test from high school along with doodles and notes taken from high school and college notebooks. If you're interested in reading my convoluted thoughts and lengthy description, please read on!




Now I don't think the new trend is replicating this exact shirt, but the idea and message behind it. The trend i'm hoping for is a surge of new designs inspired by things you wouldn't normally see on a shirt. Stuff that was made without the threadless competition or t-shirts in mind. Math homework, blueprints, essays, sheet music, poems, doodles, whatever you have that interests you. Make it your own and throw it on a shirt.

My idea to inspire a new trend was to inspire people to submit whatever the hell they wanted. The trend would be a new way of looking at print-worthy designs, without comparing it to the type of printed designs we've seen in the past. You shouldn't have to sit down at your desk or computer and consciously be creating something with threadless in mind. Dig around your old notes, journals, parent's photographs, and elementary school short stories for something unexpected. I wanted to try and focus on a new trend that would affect and inspire all girlies and boyos whether you're "designer" or not. I think there are too many people out there that are afraid to submit designs because they don't think of themselves as designers or artists and don't think their ideas are suitable for the "threadless demographic". Forget that, submit anything! Submit an old math test from school. Who cares if it's not meant to be on a shirt, it still might look sweet on one.

I know it may not be as simple as I make it out to be by simply "throwing some old worksheets on a blank t-shirt template" and calling it done, but I think that is where someone's real creativity can shine through. It's still a competition and you should still do your best to make whatever you are submitting your OWN design and unique in it's own right. That should never change, that's the challenge and that's the contest. The new trend should be focused on where people are finding their inspiration and source material for these designs.

I went about working on this design by first concentrating what I think a great new trend in threadless would be. After working on that for a while, I came up with some thoughts, wrote them down and from there I tried to design a shirt that was inspired by the trend I had envisioned. I wouldn't have ever subbed something like this to the normal competition, so maybe this new trend thing is already pushing me to think differently. Which is good right? Who knows... this is basically me just barfing out the convoluted thoughts and ideas that inspired me to work on this design because I had to get them out of my head somehow.