yes i agree!



theres gonna be hussies and gross people wearing threadless now thinking thyre cool!

ugh.

people who think the new shirts are funny.

but some people do, zim, and you cant blame threadless for branching out a bit. they're still selling exactly the same sort of shirts before, only now there is a whole new style available. maybe when an unresistable slogan comes along you'll change your mind

hell



I could take a Sharpie and a three dollar t-shirt and write clever things on my shirt



I can't take a clever slogan and make it actually look really cool

im kind of crying on the inside... this is all so much for my little mind to handle

i agree. i like the new threadless select t-shirts, but the text ones are horrible... they are like shirts found at target or walmart

seriously do you bitch about every new shirt that gets printed?

i feel like there is too much new stuff... its overpowering and there is just so much going on...

Yeah, same, Ryan.

I'm so overwhelmed.

just buy my Blueprint shirt... then you have a text shirt with text on it... and a funky design too. :)

and don't give me any shit about fonts being art because they fucking aren't

I love blueprint. I'm thinking about it :)

i like giants tal like this. the opther ones are bleh. but w.e, it something differetn

They should do a text shirt that says "All I do is Bitch and Moan" and send it to you guys.

Too mainstream! :p

and one that says "I think because I perhaps like something it makes all opinions of everyone who doesn't completely invalid"

"and don't give me any shit about fonts being art because they fucking aren't"



thats just ignorant

your ignorant steve... just ignorant

I don't like them either. But I gots me a Blueprint and a Rayguns, so I'm pleased.



Perhaps Threadless are testing the waters with these new Type Tees.



I like the idea of the Select tees a lot.

sorry but I see writing and I think "I WONDER WHAT IT FUCKING SAYS"



I DON'T THINK "geeeee that is pretty"

haha john! ;)

are the select and type shirts going to be a weekly thing?



how is that going to work?



sincerely,

- Justin Shithead White

But threadless isn't making fonts. They're using premade ones.

steve is grumpy

clearly everything that requires skill and tedium is art

typography is so an art

steve,



http://talleming.com/pages/work/typeDesign/index.html



this is a type designers site that graduated a bit before me from LSU. The research that goes into a good font is incredible. It is most definitely an art and because of people like you it is becoming a lost art.



bummer.

if I am building a car engine I require a great amount of skill, it's tedious, I need to make sure all the angles and everything are right



Is making a car engine art?







there is certainly an aesthetic element to creating a font but slapping a font on something and calling it "Art" doesn't make it art



it needs to be artfully used, often needs to be augmented, needs to be more effort than saying "OOH, this one looks good, let's write something clever in it"

clearly I'm an idiot with no skills or talent or redeeming qualities at all and I obviously don't know anything at all

but a beautiful font doesnt need any further designing to make it anymore awesome. just the letter forms themselves are the art

actually, i agree with the fact that i can buy these message tees at any store in the world: at the mall, target or wal-mart. i do like the in case of emergency break dance. I'm not buying it. I can't. It just isn't unique. It holds no significance. It takes a lot longer to create some of the designs we see up here than it takes to type a message on a shirt using a font, doing a little kerning and tracking, and calling it a day. Honestly, the shirts are more like advertisements for the type foundry that sells the font. They are selling fonts. It is kind of like your favorite band that starts getting popular and then everyone says they are selling out. No they aren't, they're just doing what you or I would do, make money. And it isn't like they are completely going to phrases on tees. I think they saw that joy of text submissions and started thinking maybe they could do something with just type, however the joy of text subs did have artistic elements to them.

oh man, i made a font in my typography class last summer. so hard!!



i think it'd be awesome if some really crazy fonts came out of this!

but the shirts are not about the letters but about the words and simply putting some words on a shirt (no matter the font) has always been a silly thing to do

No, rachel, i didn't read. I didn't take the time to.

Like, you said, they're just SHIRTS.

I LOVE WHEN STEVE IS A NEGATIVE NANCY! HE AND BANANAPHONE SHOULD MAKE OUT!

so how often are type and select shirts printed?

" Stevethegreat on Jun 12 '06 at 4:18pm

clearly I'm an idiot"



I couldnt agree more

Graffiti is art and its text.

youre telling me you wouldnt buy a plain tshirt with your favorite baseball teams name on it!?

1 select and 1 type a week

that is useful informations arzie fank you

nate buys headbands with my name on it

nah fonts are art, just not the kind of art that works stand alone on tshirts without any tinkering.

ah cool thanks a lot ross.



oh and for the record. i barf fonts out of my mouth every morning after... but they are usually really bad ones.

"well, this is a company and not a club....hussies and gross people are technically allowed to wear whatever they want.



threadless is expanding. i keep saying, the more $ they make, the better things they can do/give to us. so don't sweat it so much!"



My concern is that the bigger threadless has gotten the more it seems to have forgotten its very roots.



What if its totally forgotten? hopefully this won't be a problem.

I agree with both sides here . making a font is hart and they can be beautiful .. but applying a font to a slogan doesnt make teh slogan art unless it enhances teh slogan ...but thats just my opinion

but the shirts are not about the letters but about the words and simply putting some words on a shirt (no matter the font) has always been a silly thing to do



well, to a typophile the shirts are about both letterforms and the slogan. seriously, from a shitty store like tshirthell.com all your going to get is Cooper Black and Helvetica and (puke) Impact over an over. With threadless at least you know you're getting some fresh and classy fonts.

font only shirts can become classic art.



COLLEGE



animal house made that mother rockin and its still a hit.

julia, if those really existed, i would be the first to rock it! please make it in neon green/pink!

It will never be fogotten.