i believe yours came first gringz!

i cant belive this got printed over yours? yours is better by a mile!

i know! i liked yours! i'm disappointed.

yours is FAR better

I agree, your design was a lot better and cuter :)
Plus you put it out for scoring before he did.

You should've got printed :(

i hate that there's no definition to this tree.

i like what he did with colors, its different

mine would have been too much like 3 house anyways, which is a great print, so i can see why they liked this one better!

congrats matt!

I agree, when I saw it I thought it looked alot worse than when I voted on it, thinking this was yours.

I like yours alot more, it really is a shame =(

Wow i liked yours a lot more too :(

Meh. Oh well.

You have alot of designs that are way cool and should have gotten printed.

I must agree, yours is far better

AND, I love your style.. all your design rocks.

honestly, i can't see why this one was printed over yours. yours is much better AND subbed before. Plus, that other one looks like it has been cut out straight from a bonsay picture, added in a dude on a ladder and done. meh!

wow dude, i just checked your website - is that your stuff as well!? incredible, you show a remarkable different side of yourself there (i'm assuming p-shop stuff) while you already have a very remarkable style here!

They probaly picked it for it's generic accessability. Yours was far superior.

Similar to the Howling bells cover too:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000EWAXOC/026-2960561-6030804?v=glance&n=229816&s=gateway&v=glance

yea your bonsai design KICKS ASS, i gave it a $5!
i would definately not buy the one that one printed

im sorry :(

how do i get to see a picture of the original tee that everyone else pefers??

it works well as a visual pun. i know its a good design when i go 'why didnt i think of that first?' sure it seems simple. Well, non of us thought of dripping paint and calling it art, Mr Pollock did. so credit goes to Mr Hammond.

There's a certain economy of means, a certain minimal understatedness to it. It's not about an over-the-top showcasing of one's virtuouso dexterity with Adobe's vector software. the craft shouldn't overshadow the concept.

The Howling Bells cover is totally unrelated, the tree there isn't a bonsai. The joke here is the absurdity of juxtaposition, the surprise from changing the meaning of what might as well be a vectorised photo of an everyday bonsai plucked off the net (probably isn't) ,by playing with scale. the bonsai is a symbol of the rampant minituraisation in japanese society but here it is a 'giant' bonsai. A visual oxymoron. I smiled.

i like the treatment of the ladder element as a device to suggest a sense of depth in the 2-d medium of the flat t-shirt. the concept needs a sense of physical 3d hugeness to the bonsai. everything fits together seamlessly, including the technical execution.

i like the colour combo too.

still i admire your style Gringz, i think its unique and has a certain polish and stylistic maturity. kampatei!!! I would wish to be that good.

http://www.threadless.com/submission/77406/bonsai_fishing

I definetly would have bought Gringz's submission if it had been printed but this one I won't.

i find it hard to think of these two shirts as "the same", just because they both have a bonsai tree in them. the thick lines and flat color fills in bonzai fishing are very cartoon-like; that plus the obvious joke of the troll fishing in the coffee, and then the little touches like the mushrooms, makes this a nearly purely "new-school" kind of pleasure. boisai gardener, on the other hand, has a much subtler joke to it, and more of an old-school single-color kind of pleasure to the graphic. don't get me wrong. i gave gringz's sub a 5$, which i rarely do. i gave matt's a 4$. it's just that you don't have to dislike the one in order to like the other, you know? i don't imagine they were ever "in competition" in threadless's mind.