Profile for cappomutato - New shirts and blather and the I'd Design It button

cappomutato aka Andy Knight is a 33.87 year old boy, has been a member since February 17, 2006, has scored 2188 submissions, giving an average score of 0.79.

Jun 27 '06 by cappomutato

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New shirts and blather and the I'd Design It button

about Oh My Virgin Eye

Two, two, two shirts I'll have to get. Oh My Virgin Eye and 1984 Gran Hermano vs. El Liberal. While I have no interest in the Purple is the new... Type Tee, I very much like how the blue text looks purple on the red thanks to the tight lines/gaps in the text. I hope it leads to more designs employing this to creatively get past the 4+1 color limitation. I hope it doesn't lead to more X is the new Y slogans.

Blather
I've been putting this idea up on a couple different blogs, so I might as well put it here: The slogan voting box needs an additional button for those who have submitted designs in the past. An "I'd design it" button. What exactly it would do, I don't know. Maybe it would just allow the designer email the sloganeer. Maybe it would send a link to a special submission page to the designer, with joint credit and built in prize distribution should it get printed. Maybe the designer would be selected and contacted if the slogan makes the Type Tee cut, and asked to add elements to the shirt. Because, really, what Type Tee couldn't be improved with at least some design elements added to it? This slogan/design partnership ingredient of OMG Clothing shouldn't have been left behind.

IDI
I've been avoiding this last part since Type Tees hit the shelves, but I'll go ahead with it now. I'm not self important, I'm not trying to be all, "My Slogans Are SO Awesome!"-- which is why I've held off. I'm just a guy with a dark, dirty, destructive mind without the artistic ability to transfer idea from mind to paper. But, here it is: if a designer out there likes any of my slogans enough to want to use it, this is the blog to use to contact me. This is your all-in-one I'd Design It button. Hit it or don't. In any case, I'd like to see other slogan writers put up their own IDI buttons.

Now, if you don't mind, I have 4 other blogs to get back to neglecting. Damn you, interbunny.

parabolic on Jun 27 '06 at 9:54pm

I wouldn't want to see an "I'd design it" button, but I do like the idea of making submitted slogans fair game for designers. There are definitely some I've wanted to try to sketch, but wouldn't since they are the submitter's idea. Good call starting a blog about it.

chelly on Jun 27 '06 at 10:23pm

love your blather section, but i'm a slogan girl myself. if every one of my slogans were to catch a designer's eye, i'd probably wet myself. i couldn't even what would happen if it got printed on a shirt. anyhow,i hope something comes of this blog post, because the text shirt's aren't evil but threadless is a home for designers that could make a shirt better, and should.

Verdana on Jun 27 '06 at 10:31pm

I've been making slogan designs, rather than submitting the slogans themselves. It hasn't gone very well so far, but it's fun.

Chelly, I'd get a kick out of making submissions from a couple of your slogans.

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Jooliesays on Aug 20 '06 at 7:34am

I would kind of like to find a way to give design ideas to a designer, because I am creative person, but a crappy artist. Where, oh where, will i find a designer to put stylus to tablet for me, and give us both joint fame and or prize money?