:(

oh snap!

-k.

thats okay, no one probably bought it anyway.

^ It's sold out in the guy's sizes!

trust liz to always see the bright side! :)

I'm sorry you hate it. In a completely unrelated note, when I come to Oz in a month, do I still get to come visit you?

i usually refuse to let leon know i think he's fantastic.

LOL Liz---what a jerkballs!

dont beat yourself down for a print, it looks pretty awesome and sold well. actually to me one of my favorite printed pieces you've done here

oh nm refreshfail

oh and btw, Thanks For Everything is in my cart right now.

mmmm yeah. I received a few shirts that were less than what I've come to expect from tless. :/

I would just like to make an unrelated comment, fucking Alex you're supposed to be on aim right now, I CAN SEE YOU'RE ONLINE!

lol

oh man that's a shame.

i agree with malcom,
i've noticed this as well...

I know the feeling, man, sorry to hear it

foil wouldn't have done this justice with all the gradations you have imo but it sounds like the separator fucked it all up

oh hey kelsi, yeah if you're still coming this way definitely stop in. you're welcome to crash here on your way to sydney or whatever.

rob, there weren't meant to be any gradations. all those grey gradient areas represent where the foil was meant to be, and i explained that in my email to them but they just forgot to do it. it should have been regular flat colours with some foil areas.

Damn, that sucks balls, sorry, man :/

Have a coke and some wings

thanks man, that helps.

on the plus side i also got the mcbess select in the same parcel and was thrilled to discover the little guitar on the back of the shirt. that was a fun surprise. and it's a great shirt.

sucks dude. if its any consolation- i'm not impressed with threadless' foil inks. the rainbow foil square on my hadrian shirt came off completely after 3 washes.

Leon, I bought it and it's nowhere near as bad as you think it is. It's still an awesome illustration and personally, I wouldn't have liked it as much if they'd put foil on it.

I hardly ever buy Selects at full price, but I'm glad I got yours.

They'd sold out of mediums when I bought it and now they've sold out of all guys sizes. I had to buy a small I don't know how that will work out. I'm wearing a small AA tee right now and it looks OK but I don't know, I can feel that I'm wearing it. But serves me right for waiting for a sale that never happened or the exchange rate to get better or something. Anyway, it sold out so quick at full price too that it definitely deserves a reprint and it should be reprinted properly this time with the foiil and everyone who bought it now should get a free replacement.

My husband got it and loves it...
I think it looks good, but I did notice some of the quality issues you mentioned :/

awww sorry to hear you are disappointed with the print quality of your own select, dood. that sucks ballz :(

:(

holy shit! sorry to hear that leon

it would be good to get an opinion of someone else who bought the shirt

oh, didn't see kraka's comment

i'd need to see another sim process shirt to be sure, but i'm pretty convinced most of the problem with the quality is due to sim process being used, when it was completely unecessary. even if they'd just printed the crappy gradient parts in a flat colour and all the others in the spot colours i'd nominated it would have looked a lot better.

i don't think you can print gradients in 'flat' colour when you aren't squeegeeing by hand :\

I have Folie A Deux (Select), which is sim process, and it's kinda got that grainy holy look you're talking about. I still absolutely love it, but the quality isn't the greatest that's for sure.

Sucks about your print. :(

I kinda feel the same with buko's artic howl.. Maybe that's what happens when it's sim process on dark shirts

with sim.process on dark shirts, don't they have to print white underneath the colour? sounds hard to me :s

I thought they said simulated process works better on dark colours in the submission kit? Or maybe I've got it backwards. Band t-shirts (like the kind for 80s metal bands not those arty indie bands who rip off Threadless artists) are always sim process and always on black. You can really feel the ink on them but so maybe there is an undercoat.

Personally I think simulated process always looks a bit shit. And that's fine if it's supposed to be simulated process but since it wasn't then it's bad and especially because it will look bad by comparison to the rest of the design.

what shirt was it?

ivejustquitsmoking on Jun 10 '09 at 9:49am
I kinda feel the same with buko's artic howl.. Maybe that's what happens when it's sim process on dark shirts

After reading this blog I begain thinking about it and would agree that Atric Howl does look kinda grainy. But I do still love it.

pics etc

that select is amazing
one of my favorites

i don't think you can print gradients in 'flat' colour when you aren't squeegeeing by hand :\

that's the point, this wasn't meant to have gradients. the gradients in the preview are only meant to show where the foil goes. the actual design was all spot colours.

Is there anyway we could see a photo or something? I'm curious.

i'll try to get one tomorrow. it's 2am and too dark now.

:(

IMO simulated process prints never look nearly as good.

and that's what kills me. it was never meant to be one.

:( - plus the no foil sucks too. But I love the design :(

foil starts coming off after several washes and when you use foil, you can only apply waterbased inks for all the other colors, otherwise the foil clings onto outside areas. Additionally, foil is crap for precise and detailed images.

still you had something in mind and it didn't happen according to your wishes, which is what the point of a select is about.

I'm pretty sure they'll put mine on heather grey.... damn you, craig, damnnn you

can they do a print of a select design? pretty stupid question i s'pose but damn i love this design and now i'm skurred to order a shirt

ginetteginette on Jun 10 '09 at 9:42am i don't think you can print gradients in 'flat' colour when you aren't squeegeeing by hand :\

I think he meant take out the gradient altogether and print it as a solid color.

i feel your pain leon

one of my prints was botched pretty bad

I have not mentioned it, well cause It's too late to do anything about it. But on your select.... you should be able to do another -

thats what I think - selects should be perfect no matter what

I kind of agree I think. . .

I never made a blog 'cause I didn't want to whine but I was also pretty bummed when they shrunk my keeping it simple design to a tiny chest placement when it was supposed to take up most of the shirt.
On the other hand, they are paying us handsomely for the rights to our designs on shirts to do whatever they want with it, so if they want to change the look that's their call, not ours.
Still I do agree that Selects should be given more care and consideration to cater more to the designer's vision than a regular shirt. That's what makes it a Select.
But that's life. Probably nothing can really be done at this point.

I love keeping it simple...and I agree with you that your intended placement would have made a big difference.