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funkstart
funkstart is a 32.55 year old girl, has been a member since April 25, 2006, has scored 2,148 submissions, giving an average score of 1.43, helping 26 designs get printed.
Just sent in a new design.
biggerconnected
This is the placement:
placement

telaine
telaine on Jun 19 '06 at 4:14pm
really like the design itself but not so much the colors. g'luck! :)
PATRICKwMORGAN
PATRICKwMORGAN on Jun 19 '06 at 4:14pm
It looks good, though I think I'd prefer it on a darker shirt. That's not a critism, just a preference.
snittleface
snittleface on Jun 19 '06 at 4:18pm
i LOVE the colors! and this design!
funkstart
funkstart on Jun 19 '06 at 4:18pm
Thanks. I don't know... I really like these colors together. Call me crazy.
drmtama2
drmtama2 on Jun 19 '06 at 4:19pm
letters must be in a different color
drmtama2
drmtama2 on Jun 19 '06 at 4:19pm
fill them in
funkstart
funkstart on Jun 19 '06 at 4:43pm
Good to hear others like the colors.
mezo
   mezo on Jun 19 '06 at 4:46pm
Those colors makes me want to burp babies.
funkstart
funkstart on Jun 19 '06 at 4:56pm
I have no idea whether that's good or bad...
funkstart
funkstart on Jun 20 '06 at 11:29am
Any other thoughts...?

huebucket
   huebucket on Jun 20 '06 at 11:43am
why three people?I think just two it would be nice.and I like the idea too :)
spires
   spires on Jun 20 '06 at 12:12pm
I'm worried by what I perceive as implied collectivity, but like the general aesthetic. I'm just attacking, just recording my initial impression.
funkstart
funkstart on Jun 20 '06 at 12:51pm
Oh, no, this isn't meant as a collective type thing (I almost typed "borg-thing," but then I'd be identifying myself as a Star Trek nerd). It's meant to convey the thought that we all have hopes, desires, fears, and loves, and that makes us all more the same than different.



It's a Jungian concept more than anything-- the collective unconscious.
funkstart
funkstart on Jun 20 '06 at 12:53pm
And the reason for three... well, I'm very old school, I guess, and I perscribe to the whole "there's magic in numbers school." Three is a magic number. So is seven, 12 40, etc.
funkstart
funkstart on Jun 20 '06 at 12:57pm
Yeah, I was thinking that, too, Rachel! Thanks!
BlameTheSuburbs
   BlameTheSuburbs on Jun 20 '06 at 12:57pm
too much white
Veverka
Veverka on Jun 20 '06 at 12:58pm
ooh, lovely as is.
mikemills
   mikemills on Jun 20 '06 at 1:05pm
Fantastic. The faces are really striking. The colors work great, by the way, and I'd 5 and $ it as is, but do you have any color options?
littlelibertine
littlelibertine on Jun 20 '06 at 1:11pm
$5
5 days later
funkstart
funkstart on Jun 25 '06 at 10:51pm
Oh, I'll add more color options.
failed_designer
failed_designer on Jun 25 '06 at 11:00pm
It feels kinda washed out to me. I'd want something more stiking. Though at the same time it feels like it could be good for the threadless loves threadless comp. While it's not amazing or something I'd wear, I think there is something in the style that could start a new 'trend'. Maybe think of a way to get parts to 'pop' out more. I'm not really sure. Not that my work is any better, just my constructive thoughts.

funkstart
funkstart on Jun 25 '06 at 11:22pm
No, I totally understand what you're saying. I'm going to let this version be the low-key color design, and I'm going to make another one that pops more. A brighter blue for the background, and gold.
matchstick
matchstick on Jun 25 '06 at 11:23pm
i dig it.
failed_designer
failed_designer on Jun 25 '06 at 11:31pm
maybe that new trend thing I'm feeling is the combo of washed out pastel colors and the blank expressions.

That maybe it. Now if you could put just a little more content or meaning in there. I mean 'we are all connected' is a great theme, it's just that it's sorta cliche. I think with a bit of new cleverness (clever is my favorite word lately) or insight you'd be rockin'. Possibly through changing the words in each head to be stonger terms and playing off eachother. Such as 'sexual dysfunction' in one head and 'repressed childhood ' in another. Just my need for pressing thing further maybe
chisafer
chisafer on Jun 25 '06 at 11:33pm
figgin' sweet!
pinkelephants
pinkelephants on Jun 25 '06 at 11:37pm
Does anyone else think "watermelon" when they look at the heads? Or am I the only one?
funkstart
funkstart on Jun 25 '06 at 11:40pm
I think if I'd start putting these Freudian sort of phrases that you're suggesting then it defeats the purpose of the design-- I guess it might not be necessarily "deep," but I feel that people should try to understand the fact that we all are more the same than different. Maybe I don't feel it's cliche simply because people still don't seem to get it.



That's my thought.
failed_designer
failed_designer on Jun 26 '06 at 2:45pm
coolness. good work and don't go all changing if you don't think it's right.
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