When approximately 57 of us Threadless wild childz went out to a pizza palace during the dinner time break at the Threadless 2k11 meetup, Jonah was showing me his sketch book and we were shooting ideas back and forth. There was a giant pizza in front of us with tons of every kind of lover of cooked animal pieces could savor, and Jonah mentioned something about this place being a sausage party and how it's a good shirt idea. Never mind we had a ton of girls at the table (and even a Courtney Pie, whatever the hell THAT creature is), but I thought it was a funny literal idea. I mentioned we should have balloons and one bun that represents a woman who is outnumbered a zillion to one being pissed off at her horny surroundings, and Jonah loved the addition. So just in case we got severely drunk or etc later that night and the events of the pizza parlor had to be pieced together by people's photos a la Memento, I "sketched" out the concept in my book in literally fifteen seconds.



A thing of beauty ain't it?

Eventually Jonah and I got around to starting this sucker on up, and here's the quick visual process of how a bunch of dorky wieners tried to score with Mrs Bunson, who wasn't having ANY of it.



Suggestions: more crowd around them, different lame outfits for all the potential suitors.



Suggestions: make the woman bun more pissed-off than shocked.



Color commenced! Jonah asked me to find a good bun color swatch, but eventually we settled for a cartoon bun image for the color. Jonah wanted to add in a frat dude, which I thought was an awesome idea.



We switched the girl bun's object from a drink to a phone, thinking that would make her look more unimpressed with her surroundings, about to text up all her friends and see where they were at. We soon realized that was an insane amount of information for people to get from that simple object, so we changed course soon to a VERY recognizable expression of female dissatisfaction ("Am i right 80's, I mean, c'mon really?"): a pair of crossed arms.



Linework was starting to be touched up by Jonah, as well as adding a minor background to illustrate the flash and frenzy of a big bash. We at first thought the original idea we had for balloons and etc was too much for the scene to hold. I also asked Jonah if we could have a dollar sign gold chain instead of the huge medallion which said more disco than hip-hop blingy to me, as well as the frat boy could be holding a Solo party cup to complete the costumed package.



Arms crossing was a much better way to convey the girl bun's pissed-off current state. Future Feeling-oligists would later talk in hushed tones about how we made such a landmark breakthrough on male/female relations that Jonah and I had taken this long to figure out. That accomplished, we pressed! Jonah added more shading to the bun. At this point Jonah and I came to the same conclusion with emails almost hitting into one another on the digital road to the other person's inbox: we should probably add balloons back and maybe a banner.



We REALLY thought this cleared up the idea and added a more festive attitude to the scene that screamed subconsciously "PARTY!" to viewers of the design without actually having the word in the frame.



I asked Jonah if we could have the banner say FESTIVAL with the -IVAL fading out so it would mostly just be read as FEST, which i thought would look more natural on the banner as well as put the word FEST into people's minds a little faster. It's a goofy, slightly-longwinded visual pun, so I think every hint to the kind viewing folk of my collabs helps! Jonah agreed and kicked some major ass on the final revision, along with a few minor touch-ups:







Thanks fer votin', and in honor of this male on male on male on infinity phenomena, here's a lil' song and dance number for the dudes who can count the number of girlies at a party on one finger's amount of thumbnails: