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djspyhunter
djspyhunter aka Kim Pimmel has been a member since October 31, 2005, has scored 24 submissions, giving an average score of 2.96.
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  Dec 04 '05 by djspyhunter        15 Comments        Watch this      Share:  Share on facebook    Share on delicious    Share on digg    Share on MySpace    Tweet this    Stumble this    Share this on Kaboodle   
why do you hate text?
Threadless.com Submission - Eighties Car

why do you hate text on tee designs?

Skipper6745
   Skipper6745 on Dec 04 '05 at 11:45am
Text killed my father and raped my mother.
tesko
   tesko on Dec 04 '05 at 11:48am
because more often than not it's done very badly
theoneandonlyshoegazer
theoneandonlyshoegazer on Dec 04 '05 at 11:49am
usually it looks bad and it's a bit superfluous.
steve_swartz
steve_swartz on Dec 04 '05 at 11:51am
it's one of the great modernist creeds: show, don't tell.

as a rule, text works when it's shown. it doesn't work when it tells what's going on.
OlliRudi
   OlliRudi on Dec 04 '05 at 12:16pm
Text can work..but only if the person doing the design has some typographic skill and the text isn't stupid.
mayorseedless
mayorseedless on Dec 04 '05 at 12:38pm
because it may say something that you disapprove of.
Stevethegreat
Stevethegreat on Dec 04 '05 at 12:43pm
it's not text I hate--it's you


ahahaahahahahah
I'm just kidding
steve_swartz
steve_swartz on Dec 04 '05 at 12:45pm
people draw with no evident artistic talent

why can't they use text with no evident typographic talent
plans
plans on Dec 04 '05 at 12:49pm
Not to say I don't like your design, but I'm not really digging the discreet-but-not-because-I-know-it's-there sort of self promoting on your blogs.
lenabean
lenabean on Dec 04 '05 at 12:51pm
text hates me
finkenstein
   finkenstein on Dec 04 '05 at 12:57pm
I don't often like text becuase text is just as important as the design and a lot of the time people don't treat it as so. Most of the time the text is a font that looks like someone just threw it on the Tee, I usually only like text when it is well done and hand drawn.
Scaper-X
Scaper-X on Dec 04 '05 at 1:52pm
I, for one, happen to like the FEED ME entry.
deam
deam on Dec 04 '05 at 1:54pm
text just ruins what the open endness to the meaning of designs.
adam antium
   adam antium on Dec 04 '05 at 4:22pm
the last sub I submitted it's finally just a text ...
hope people don't hate it!
Stubby42
Stubby42 on Dec 04 '05 at 4:29pm
I agree with Steve, text works best when the text is what the majoritory of the image, not when its explain the image. For example I love this shirt, the shirt is about the text not the picture:

http://www.hurley-catalog.com/cat05/ click on mens tops its the first one.
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